This number and operations worksheet, ‘Exponents: Squared or Cubed’ allows for practice with square and cubic units. Answer sheet provided with file download.
This number and operations worksheet, ‘Expression: Factors and Exponents’ allows for practice with exponents. Answer sheet provided with file download.
This number and operations worksheet, ‘Expressions with Integers 1’ allows for practice performing computations with negative numbers. Answer sheet provided with file download.
In the addition activity ‘Face Totals’ students add numbers on the corners of solid 3-D objects to find the face values of the sides of each object. Students can work alone or collaboratively as they solve the problems, exploring ways to find possible answers. An answer sheet is provided and includes teaching notes with suggestions …More
In this learning activity ‘Factor Puzzles’, students explore the ways factors are represented on a polygon and solve puzzles using multiplication. They can also play a game by multiplying the numbers on two dice to cover numbered squares on a gameboard. An answer sheet is provided and includes accompanying teaching notes with suggestions for supporting …More
This number and operations worksheet, ‘Factors and Multiples’ allows for practice with factors and multiples. Answer sheet provided with file download.
This learning activity, ‘Fair and Square’, prompts students to use tiles or the supplied grid paper to copy patterns of coloured squares and work out each pattern’s rule. An answer sheet is provided and includes teaching notes with suggestions for supporting learning and further exploration.
This number and operations worksheet, ‘Find the Percentage’ allows for practice with percentages. Answer sheet provided with file download.
In the learning activity, ‘Fish Forms’ students calculate the values of different fish-forms that have been made from geometric shapes. Each shape has an assigned monetary value. Students need to identify the shapes and used strategies to find the total value of each fish form. An answer sheet is provided and includes accompanying teaching notes …More
This learning activity, ‘Flower Power’, features a garden of flowers. Students must feed each flower a single operation that relates the numbers on its petals to the number in its centre. An answer sheet is provided and includes teaching notes with suggestions for supporting learning and further exploration.
The engaging learning activity, ‘Flying Home’ shows what happens when friends weigh their luggage at the airport for a flight home. Students need to calculate weights, averages, and loads to help the friends reach Tonga. This activity includes comprehensive teaching notes to be read before beginning the activity with students, as they feature useful background …More
This learning activity, ‘Flying-fish Soup’, can introduce the concept of ratio. Students must help Pat adjust Gran’s recipe to serve different numbers of people. An answer sheet is provided and includes teaching notes with suggestions for supporting learning and further exploration.
This learning activity, ‘Follow That Arrow’, explores the concept of number relationships. Students must work out the rule to complete the number patterns. An answer sheet is provided and includes teaching notes with suggestions for supporting learning and further exploration.
In the real-life problem solving activity, ‘Food for All’, Roimata has to work out how many people are coming to a community dinner, then calculate how much food and drink will be needed. Students need to apply their skills of estimation, multiplication, and division to help Roimata. This activity includes comprehensive teaching notes to be …More
The learning activity ‘Food for Thought’ contains a variety of short problems for students to solve and discuss. The problems engage students in thinking about the strategies they can use to solve problems that include comparing costs, distributing car passengers, and watering a tree. An answer sheet is provided and includes teaching notes to support …More
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 understanding numbers worksheet, ‘Function-Checking Machines’ asks students to practise checking equations by performing the inverse operation.
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
Students use this learning activity, ‘Going Up’ to play two games. In one game, they use the cards to number the floors of a skyscraper. In the other game, they take turns making numbers to reach 100. An answer sheet is provided and includes accompanying teaching notes with suggestions for supporting learning and further exploration.
In the learning activity ‘Growing Numbers’, students use and compare strategies as they solve word problems that involve addition and subtraction. They are encouraged to compare and share the strategies they use with a classmate as they develop an understanding of the relative benefits of different strategies. An answer sheet is provided and includes accompanying …More
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.
In this learning activity, ‘Hiding in the Swamp’, problems concerning swamphen involve finding the total of groups of the same number of objects and sharing objects evenly. Students can use their knowledge of addition and multiplication to solve related division problems. An answer sheet is provided and includes teaching notes with suggestions for supporting learning …More
Students who have flown will be interested in this learning activity ‘High Flyers’ in which they look at different seating plans for planes. Seating plans change according to the shape of the plane, and students must calculate ways to arrange rows for the seats. An answer sheet is provided and includes accompanying teaching notes with …More
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
The learning activity ‘Home Sweet Home’ contains a variety of short problems for students to solve and discuss. The problems engage students in thinking about the strategies they can use to solve problems that involve using a house plan, sharing, enlarging a building, and using coins. An answer sheet is provided and includes teaching notes …More
How Many Factors?’ is an independent or paired learning activity that provides students with opportunities to practise identifying the factors of 2-digit numbers. This in turn supports mental strategies they can use for division and multiplication. An answer sheet is provided and includes teaching notes with suggestions for supporting learning and further exploration.
This number and operations worksheet, ‘How Many?’ allows for practice calculating solutions using estimation. Answer sheet provided with file download.
This number and operations worksheet, ‘How Much? How Many?’ allows for practice interpreting and solving word problems. Answer sheet provided with file download.
This number and operations worksheet, ‘Identify the Missing Number’ allows for practice with number sentences. Answer sheet provided with file download.
This graphic organiser, ‘Integers on a Number Line’ asks students to solve numerical problems and plot the answers on number lines.
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
The learning activity ‘Join the Queue’ contains a variety of short problems for students to solve and discuss. The problems engage students in thinking about the strategies they can use to solve problems that involve standing in line, using maps, time, and calculator displays. An answer sheet is provided and includes teaching notes to support …More
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
This number and numerical operations worksheet, ‘Judging Estimates’ offers an introduction to identifying overestimates and underestimates. Answer sheet provided with file download.
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.
In this engaging learning activity, ‘Knocking over Subtraction’, students use subtraction to complete a skittle scorecard. They can also play the Nasty Game by using subtraction to find a winner. An answer sheet is provided and includes accompanying teaching notes with suggestions for supporting learning and further exploration.
Did you know that a whale shark has three times the mass of an African elephant? The learning activity, ‘Large or Huge?’ features more interesting animal facts, and asks students to use fractions as they compare their masses. This activity includes comprehensive teaching notes to be read before beginning the activity with students, as they …More
This numbers worksheet, ‘Little Ducklings’ supports students to count by matching images with the words for numbers. It supports an understanding of numbers.
This learning activity, ‘Loopy’, provides instructions for a card game for two players. The game can be designed to reinforce any collection of mathematical facts. The accompanying teaching notes include suggestions for supporting learning and a template for teachers to create their own sets of Loopy cards.
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.
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
The learning activity, ‘Making Equations’ provides practice for students in making equations. They can work in pairs to create sensible equations with the number and operation cards provided. An answer sheet is provided and includes teaching notes with suggestions for supporting learning and further exploration.
The real-life problems of producing and selling clothes form the basis of this engaging activity, ‘Making Money’. Students must calculate the cost, profit, wholesale, retail and sale prices for a range of sweatshirts. This activity includes comprehensive teaching notes to be read before beginning the activity with students, as they feature useful background information and …More
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.
Matrix’ is a game for one or more players. It gives students practice in quickly identifying common multiples of a single-digit number. It also gives them opportunities to challenge themselves to match and beat their own scores. An answer sheet is provided and includes teaching notes with suggestions for supporting learning and further exploration.
In the menu-based activity, ‘Meal Deal’ students use their mathematical knowledge to help a family work out how much their seafood meal will cost. The items on the menu included fillets of fish, hot dogs, squid rings, and dim sum: some items may not be familiar, so students can create their own fast food menu …More
Did you know that the circumference of a your fist is approximately equal to the length of your foot? The practical activity, ‘Measuring Up’ shows students that many measurements on their bodies have interesting ratios. This activity includes comprehensive teaching notes to be read before beginning the activity with students, as they feature useful background …More
The learning activity ‘Megabytes of Memory’ poses word problems relating to the various memory cards that can be used to store digital photographs. As students complete the learning activity, they use advanced strategies to explore relationships and make choices. An answer sheet is provided and includes accompanying teaching notes with suggestions for supporting learning and …More
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 number and numerical operations worksheet, ‘Methods of Calculation’ allows for practice with different methods of calculation. Answer sheet provided with file download.
This number and numerical operations worksheet, ‘Methods of Computation’ allows for practice with using different computational methods to perform fraction and decimal calculations. 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.
The resource, ‘Mind Boggling’ provides word problems involving numbers for students to solve by choosing and using the most appropriate operations. Students can use the resource independently or in pairs, and discussion will help them understand why some operations are more effective than others. The problems that use fractions may require more support. An answer …More
This understanding numbers worksheet, ‘Missing Numbers’ asks students to practise with addition and multiplication.