This maths activity, ‘Fizz-buzz’ develops basic maths skills by encouraging students to practise counting in multiples of three and five as part of an engaging elimination game played as a class.
In the learning activity, ‘Flexible Fingers’, students are challenged to use the five-based strategy to help them with addition. An answer sheet is provided and includes accompanying teaching notes with suggestions for supporting learning and further exploration.
This learning activity, ‘Flipping Fractions’, provides cards and instructions for a game of Fraction Memory. Students also complete an activity involving 12 pieces of chocolate slice to be shared. An answer sheet is provided and includes teaching notes with suggestions for supporting learning and further exploration.
Bill has 30 butterflies in the garden shown in this learning activity, ‘Flitting with Fractions’. Students have to use fractions to solve problems when Bill and his friends catch the butterflies. An answer sheet is provided and includes accompanying teaching notes with suggestions for supporting learning and further exploration.
This maths activity, ‘Forwards Count, Backwards Count’ develops basic maths skills by encouraging students to practise counting as part of a game played as a class. It includes a hundreds chart template and counters to be distributed to students.
In the learning activity ‘Fraction Tagging’ a wall with bricks of different sizes is used as a model for demonstrating equivalence between a variety of fractions. Given one value, students need to identify the value of other ‘bricks’ on the wall. After solving problems using four different walls, students create their own fraction wall with …More
In the learning activity, ‘Fun Folding’, students are challenged to explore equivalent fractions of a region and fractions that are greater than one. An answer sheet is provided and includes accompanying teaching notes with suggestions for supporting learning and further exploration.
A greedy bug has been at work in this learning activity, ‘Getting in Shape’ and students have to find out what shapes he has eaten. This intriguing activity challenges students to use different methods to understand the concept of three quarters. An answer sheet is provided and includes accompanying teaching notes with suggestions for supporting …More
This number sense worksheet, ‘Greater Than, Less Than ….’ allows for practice recognising the comparing pairs of numbers. Answer sheet provided with file download.
This number sense worksheet, ‘Greater Than, Less Than… 2’ allows for practice recognising the smaller number of a pair. Answer sheet provided with file download.
This number sense worksheet, ‘Greater Than, Less Than… 1’ allows for practice recognising the smaller number of a pair. Answer sheet provided with file download.
This maths activity, ‘Greedy Pig’ develops basic maths skills by encouraging students to practise addition as part of a game of chance and strategy, played as a class. It includes a large six-sided dot dice template.
This maths activity, ‘Guess My Number’ develops basic maths skills by encouraging students to ask questions until they guess each other’s number. This game is played in pairs with a calculator.
This maths activity, ‘Hands Up’ develops basic maths skills by encouraging students to practise using two-digit numbers and counting in 10s and ones as part of a game played as a class.
On this learning activity, ‘Happy Hundreds’ students look for missing tiles from a hundreds board to identify and explain a pattern. Using tiles from the board, they find missing pieces in a puzzle. This learning activity also has activities for using a calculator to make more hundreds patterns. An answer sheet is provided and includes …More
This maths activity, ‘Hide and Seek’ develops basic maths skills by encouraging students to practise place value as part of a game played in pairs. It includes a hundreds chart and counters to be distributed to each pair.
In the learning activity, ‘Hide-and-Seek Numbers’, students are challenged to order any set of three or more whole numbers (up to 99). An answer sheet is provided and includes accompanying teaching notes with suggestions for supporting learning and further exploration.
This maths activity, ‘Higher, Lower Addition Sort’ develops basic maths skills by encouraging students to practise place value, as part of a game played in small groups with dominoes. It includes a higher, lower template to be distributed to students.
This maths activity, ‘Highest Number Wins’ develops basic maths skills by encouraging students to practise making two-digit numbers as part of a game played in pairs. It includes number cards from 1-10 to be distributed to each pair.
This maths activity, ‘Highest Total’ develops basic maths skills by encouraging students to practise addition as part of a game played in pairs with playing cards.
This maths activity, ‘Highest Total’ develops basic maths skills by encouraging students to practise addition as part of a game played as a class. It includes a large six-sided dot dice template.
This maths activity, ‘Highest Total Wins’ develops basic maths skills by encouraging students to practise addition, as part of a game played in small groups with dominoes.
This maths activity, ‘Highest Wins’ develops basic maths skills by encouraging students to practise addition, as part of a game played in small groups with dominoes.
In the learning activity, ‘Hitting 100’, students are challenged to visualise 100 and to know what numbers can be joined to make 100. An answer sheet is provided and includes accompanying teaching notes with suggestions for supporting learning and further exploration.
In the learning activity, ‘Hot Stuff!’, students are challenged to find fractions of a whole and to add whole numbers and fractions. An answer sheet is provided and includes accompanying teaching notes with suggestions for supporting learning and further exploration.
This maths activity, ‘How Many to 100?’ develops basic maths skills by encouraging students to practise place value, as part of a game played in pairs. It includes a hundreds chart and six-sided dot and numeral dice templates to be distributed to the class.
This sequencing activity, ‘How Many?’ develops comprehension through sequencing images about counting and understanding numbers.
This learning activity, ‘How Old?’, uses students’ knowledge of “-teen” and “-ty” numbers. Students complete a table showing numbers as words and as numerals and splitting the numbers into tens and ones. An answer sheet is provided and includes teaching notes with suggestions for supporting learning and further exploration.
This maths activity, ‘Human Number Line’ develops basic maths skills by encouraging students to practise counting in ascending and descending order, and in odds and evens, as part of a game played as a class. It includes a set of numeral cards from 1-20.
This maths activity, ‘Hundreds Chart Riddles’ develops basic maths skills by encouraging students to practise addition, subtraction, multiplication and division as part of a game. It includes a hundreds chart and counters to be distributed to the class.
This maths activity, ‘I Have, Who Has?’ develops basic maths skills by encouraging students to practise number recognition, as part of a game played in pairs or small groups with dominoes.
This maths activity, ‘I Love Maths’ develops basic maths skills by encouraging students to practise adding and understanding of odd and even numbers as part of a game played in pairs.
This maths activity, ‘I Wish I Had’ develops basic maths skills by encouraging students to practise addition and subtraction as part of a ten-frame game played in pairs. It includes ten frame templates to be distributed to each pair.
This maths activity, ‘I’m Thinking of a Number’ develops basic maths skills by encouraging students to practise addition and subtraction as part of a game. It includes a hundreds chart template to be distributed to the class.
Students use place value blocks and an abacus with this learning activity, ‘Important Places’. They learn how understanding place value helps when calculating numbers. An answer sheet is provided and includes accompanying teaching notes with suggestions for supporting learning and further exploration.
This patterns and algebra worksheet, ‘Inequalities’ extends students’ understanding of inequalities. Answer sheet provided with file download.
This maths activity, ‘Islands’ develops basic maths skills by encouraging students to practise multiplication as part of an engaging game played as a class.
In the learning activity, ‘It’s a Magic Mishmash’, students are challenged to read any 3-digit whole number as well as order any set of three or more whole numbers (up to 99). An answer sheet is provided and includes accompanying teaching notes with suggestions for supporting learning and further exploration.
In the learning activity, ‘It’s Not Fair!’, students are challenged to regroup two numbers as equal amounts. An answer sheet is provided and includes accompanying teaching notes with suggestions for supporting learning and further exploration.
In this learning activity, ‘Job Sharing’ students help the Murdoch Street kids share out the money they have earned from doing odd jobs. An answer sheet is provided and includes accompanying teaching notes with suggestions for supporting learning and further exploration.
In the learning activity, ‘Leapfrog’, students are challenged to make single-digit and two-digit jumps and jumps in tens and multiples of 10. An answer sheet is provided and includes accompanying teaching notes with suggestions for supporting learning and further exploration.
This article, ‘All About Australian Animals: Learn by Numbers’, provides interesting facts about Australian animals. It features statistical information and includes colourful and engaging images.
This maths activity, ‘Limits’ develops basic maths skills by encouraging students to practise counting using four-digit numbers as part of a game played as a class.
This understanding numbers worksheet, ‘Line Up!’ asks students to practise with hundreds, tens and ones.
This maths activity, ‘Look Mum, No Buttons’ develops basic maths skills by encouraging students to practise addition, as part of a game played with a calculator. The teacher nominates certain numbers on the calculator as broken, and students must work out the answer to different additions without using those buttons.
The engaging learning activity ‘Losing Your Marbles’ shows dialogues in which children exchange different kinds of marbles. Students need to calculate the values of the different marbles by comparing their exchange rates. They are invited to investigate the quirky names and exchange rates for marbles in their own school. An answer sheet is provided and …More
This maths activity, ‘Make a Mouse’ develops basic maths skills by encouraging students to play a game in pairs with a dice. Numbers 1-6 represent a mouse body part, which students have to win by rolling the matching number, until they have made a complete mouse. It includes six-sided numeral and dot dice templates and …More
This maths activity, ‘Make the Largest Number’ develops basic maths skills by encouraging students to practise using four-digit numbers as part of a game played in pairs. It includes a set of numeral cards from 0-9 as well as a six-sided dot dice template to be distributed to each pair.
This maths activity, ‘Making 100’ develops basic maths skills by encouraging students to practise addition as part of a game played as a class. It includes a set of cards in decades from zero to 100.
This spelling activity, ‘Match the Number and Word’ provides opportunities for practice with matching number words to their numerical forms.
This maths activity, ‘Matching Numbers’ develops basic maths skills by encouraging students to practise matching numerals and number words as part of a game played as a class. It includes a set of numeral and number word cards from zero to 20.
This maths activity, ‘Mexican Wave’ develops basic maths skills by encouraging students to practise counting in multiples such as two as part of a game played as a class.
This maths activity, ‘Missing Numbers’ develops basic maths skills by encouraging students to practise place value, as part of a game played in pairs with caterpillar templates provided.
This maths activity, ‘More or Less’ develops basic maths skills by encouraging students to practise counting and place value as part of an engaging game played as a class.
This maths activity, ‘Musical Number Plates’ develops basic maths skills by encouraging students to practise counting as part of an engaging elimination game played as a class.
This maths activity, ‘Musical Numbers’ develops basic maths skills by encouraging students to practise identifying seven-digit numbers as part of an engaging game played as a class.
This maths activity, ‘Nim’ develops basic maths skills by encouraging students to practise addition as part of a strategy game played in pairs. It includes a hundreds chart and counters to be distributed to the class.
This maths activity, ‘Nine Piles’ develops basic maths skills by encouraging students to practise addition as part of a game played in pairs with playing cards.
This learning activity, ‘Now and Then’ features activities using the numeric system used by the ancient Romans. Students learn to tell the time using Roman numerals on analogue clock faces. An answer sheet is provided and includes accompanying teaching notes with suggestions for supporting learning and further exploration.
This maths activity, ‘Now You Are 21’ develops basic maths skills by encouraging students to practise addition, as part of a game played in pairs with a calculator.
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