This beginning algebra worksheet, ‘Find the Pattern 2’ allows for practice with number patterns. Answer sheet provided with file download.
This beginning algebra worksheet, ‘Find the Pattern 3’ allows for practice with number patterns. Answer sheet provided with file download.
This maths activity, ‘First to 14’ develops basic maths skills by encouraging students to practise addition and subtraction as part of a game played in pairs with playing cards.
This maths activity, ‘First to 50’ develops basic maths skills by encouraging students to practise addition, as part of a game played in pairs with a calculator.
This learning activity, ‘Fizzing It Up’, asks students to solve a series of equations using counters and the supplied tens frames. It helps students to recognise patterns that connect addition and subtraction facts. An answer sheet is provided and includes teaching notes with suggestions for supporting learning and further exploration.
In this learning activity, ‘Four in a Row’ two students play a game similar to Bingo. They give each other addition equations to solve and cover the answers on a game board. An answer sheet is provided and includes accompanying teaching notes with suggestions for supporting learning and further exploration.
This learning activity, ‘Frogs Frolic’, features instructions and a delightfully illustrated board for a game for two to four players. The game helps students practise mental strategies for addition and subtraction. The accompanying teaching notes include suggestions for supporting learning and further exploration.
This patterns and algebra worksheet, ‘Functions’ offers explanation of the basic concept of a function. Answer sheet provided with file download.
This maths activity, ‘Gem Dig’ develops basic maths skills by encouraging students to identify and match numbers as they dig. It is aimed at developing students’ knowledge of numbers. It provides number boards.
This maths activity, ‘Give a Dog a Bone’ develops basic maths skills by encouraging students to count the number of dots on the dog bones. It is aimed at developing students’ knowledge of counting. It provides a dog bone game mat, dog bone cards and number cards.
This learning activity, ‘Give or Take’ is a game similar to Boggle. It is played by two or more students to make and solve simple addition and subtraction equations using two or three numbers. Students have to make as many equations as they can in three minutes. They check each others’ work and score points. …More
This learning activity, ‘Going Down’ has two games for students to play with classmates. In one game, they subtract numbers from 20 on a calculator. In the other game, they roll dice to subtract a number from 50. An answer sheet is provided and includes accompanying teaching notes with suggestions for supporting learning and further …More
This graphic organiser, ‘Graphs Rule’ helps students to graph objects and then evaluate the graph to make conclusions.
This number sense worksheet, ‘Greater Than, Less Than… Addition’ allows for practice recognising the larger number of a pair. Answer sheet provided with file download.
This maths activity, ‘Gum Ball Machine’ develops basic maths skills by encouraging students to match the numbers on the cards to the numbers on a gum ball machine. It is aimed at developing students’ knowledge of numbers. It provides a gum ball machine template, number words and number cards.
This addition learning activity, ‘Handfuls’ asks students to practise with estimation and addition problems.
In this learning activity, ‘Helping Hands’, students work with a partner and use their hands to explore doubles and halves. A secure knowledge of doubles will prepare students for learning the multiplication basic facts. An answer sheet is provided and includes teaching notes with suggestions for supporting learning and further exploration.
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 this learning activity, ‘Hip Hup Hop’, Gary the Grasshopper needs help to move from one number to another. Students work up and down through multiples of 10 to solve the addition and subtraction problems and record their thinking on an empty number line. An answer sheet is provided and includes teaching notes with suggestions …More
This sequencing activity, ‘How Many?’ develops comprehension through sequencing images about counting and understanding numbers.
This addition worksheet, ‘How Many? 1’ allows for practice with word sums. Answer sheet provided with file download.
This addition worksheet, ‘How Many? 2’ allows for practice with word sums. Answer sheet provided with file download.
This addition worksheet, ‘How Many? 3’ allows for practice with word sums. Answer sheet provided with file download.
This addition worksheet, ‘How Many? 4’ allows for practice with word sums. Answer sheet provided with file download.
This addition worksheet, ‘How Many? 5’ allows for practice with word sums. Answer sheet provided with file download.
This addition worksheet, ‘How Many? 6’ allows for practice with word sums. Answer sheet provided with file download.
This addition worksheet, ‘How Many? 7’ allows for practice with word sums. Answer sheet provided with file download.
This quick reference chart, ‘Hundred Board’ can be reproduced for classroom use.
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 addition worksheet, ‘Hundreds, Ten and Ones’ asks students to practise with vertical addition.
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.
This addition worksheet, ‘In My Head’ asks students to practise creating and solving addition questions.
This number and numerical operations worksheet, ‘Inverse Operations’ allows for practice recognising and utilising inverse operations. Answer sheet provided with file download.
This number and operations worksheet, ‘Inverse Operations’ allows for practice explaining and using relationships between operations. Answer sheet provided with file download.
This addition and subtraction worksheet, ‘Inverse Operations’ asks students to practise using subtraction to check addition.
This learning activity, ‘It Remains to be Seen’ is a board game that gives students opportunities to use their addition and division skills. They need to divide numbers and calculate remainders as they race each other around the board. An answer sheet is provided and includes accompanying teaching notes with suggestions for supporting learning and …More
This multiplication and addition worksheet, ‘It’s All the Same’ asks students to practise with multiplication.
In this learning activity, ‘Joining Rules’, students follow rules to make patterns on a grid. By solving simple equations, they are able to make and describe the geometric patterns formed by the lines between numbers in a pair. An answer sheet is provided and includes accompanying teaching notes with suggestions for supporting learning and further …More
The word problems in the learning activity ‘Kete Counting’ challenge students to use a variety of strategies, and to develop their algebraic thinking. Strategies include trial and improvement, visualisation, and using multiplication arrays. An answer sheet is provided and includes teaching notes to support learning and further exploration.
This addition worksheet, ‘Large Addition Square’ asks students to practise with addition.
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 learning activity ‘Losing Your Marbles’ contains a variety of short problems for students to solve and discuss. Students need to use visualisation to support their spatial, numeric, algebraic and quantitative thinking. An answer sheet is provided and includes teaching notes to support learning and further exploration.
This maths template, ‘Magic Triangles’ can be reproduced for classroom use.
The learning activity, ‘Magical Tens’ shows students how they can use a ‘make tens’ board to learn a useful addition strategy. By using the board, students develop skills such as visualising and identifying patterns. Ultimately, they will not need to use the tens board, but will be able to manage part-whole thinking in their heads. …More
This maths activity, ‘Make 10′ develops basic maths skills by encouraging students to create groups of 10 on a tens tray. It is aimed at developing students’ knowledge of making sets of ten. It provides a tens tray patterns template and a fives tray patterns template.
This addition and subtraction worksheet, ‘Make It Snappy’ asks students to practise adding and subtracting decimals.
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.
The learning activity ‘Making More’ contains a variety of short problems for students to solve and discuss. They involve using strategies to calculate money paid for odd jobs, increasing cubic shapes, measuring water, and complete an addition puzzle. An answer sheet is provided and includes teaching notes to support learning and further exploration.
In this learning activity, ‘Making Numbers’ students use various combinations or numbers and operations to make a target value. They have the opportunity to use brackets, an important skill for future learning in algebra. An answer sheet is provided and includes accompanying teaching notes with suggestions for supporting learning and further exploration.
Using the map of planets on this learning activity, ‘Maps and Magic’ students calculate the distances aliens’ rockets travel between planets. In a second activity, they use addition to solve and create magic number triangles. An answer sheet is provided and includes accompanying teaching notes with suggestions for supporting learning and further exploration.
In the learning activity, ‘Memory Testing’ students learn about calculator memory functions and practise using them in different ways, including a game. The use of the calculator helps students to visualise the arithmetic involved in the calculations and so supports the use of mental strategies An answer sheet is provided and includes teaching notes to …More
This understanding numbers learning activity, ‘Mental Maths Race’ asks students to practise with mental addition, subtraction, multiplication and division.
This number and numerical operations worksheet, ‘Methods of Computation’ offers guidance on various methods for solving mathematical problems. Answer sheet provided with file download.
This learning activity, ‘Mighty Marty!’, presents equations involving multiples of 10, 100, and 1 000. Students see how their knowledge of addition basic facts can help them solve problems with much larger numbers. An answer sheet is provided and includes teaching notes with suggestions for supporting learning and further exploration.
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