Junior Primary Pupils Maths Week Poster 2024

The Maths Week posters for Junior Primary Pupils’ has been posted here with activities and sent to all schools on the island.

You can see activities for this year’s poster below

To check out last year’s Maths Week 2023 poster ”Dino Math” – click here.

Junior Primary Maths Week Poster 2023- Dino Maths
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Activities

Here you have activities related to our fun fair poster. As the teacher you know your pupils best so feel free to adapt these activities to suit your class group: older or younger children, EAL learners, pupils of differing abilities and interests, group sizes etc.

If you think to other way to use the poster, we would love to hear about it. Please drop a description of the activity and how it went along to our email mathsweek@setu.ie

The learning points revolve around identifying objects, numbers, and spatial elements, fostering vocabulary development, sentence structure, thinking skills, turn-taking, and memory. Additionally, they include recognizing numbers, counting, understanding odd and even numbers, identifying objects by colour, and developing number sequencing skills. Spatial awareness involves counting, size description, and positional relationships. Finally, number stories and creativity are encouraged for an in depth understanding of concepts.

Click on the different titles to see the suggestions.

  • How many boxes of popcorn can you see?
  • How many tokens altogether do you need for the ride, popcorn and to play darts?
  • How many carts are on the Ferris wheel? How many are green?
  • How many balls are there? How many are yellow?
  • How many clowns can you see?
  • How many balloons are there?
  • How many hot air balloons are there?
  • How many towers are in the castle?
  • How many clouds are in the sky?
  • How many yellow and blue ponies are there?
  • How many triangles can you spot?
  • How many circles are on the Ferris wheel?
  • How many stars can you see?
  • How many children are on the swings?
  • How many people are wearing something blue?
  • How many people are on the grass?
  • How many circus workers are there?
  • How many windows are in the castle?
  • How many flags can you spot?
  • How many roofs are on the castle?
  • How many flowers are there? How many are pink?
  • How many rides can you find?

There are some numbers printed.

  • Find the odd numbers.
  • Find the even numbers.
  • Find the number that is 3 more than 1.
  • Find the number that is the yellow hot air balloon, and the green hot air balloon added together.
  • Show me the number between 1 and 3.
  • Show me the number 3 less than 4.
  • Show me the number between 5 and 7.
  • What is the total of all the numbers on the hot air balloons added together?
  • What is the total number of all the numbers in the windows of the castle?
  • What is the highest number you can find?
  • What is the lowest number you can find?

You can use counters to help you with these problems.

  • David buys 3 popcorn bags and Daisy buys 2 popcorn bags, how many tokens did they spend?
  • If Ruby wants to ride the Ferris wheel twice how many tokens does she need?
  • John wants two red balloons, Jake wants one yellow balloon, and Luke wants 3 red balloons, how many balloons will they have?
  • Susan wants to go on all the rides, how many tokens will she need?

  • Can you find balls/ balloons of the same colour?
  • Can you find cabins on the Ferris wheel with the same colour?
  • Can you match the balls on the cabins to the balls by the clown?
  • Can you match the balloons to the hot air balloons? (One will not match)
  • Can you match some of the hot air balloons to a tower with the same number?
  • Can you match the juggling clown’s trousers with another outfit?

  • Can you match the box of popcorn with another item?

  • What is the highest point in the funfair?
  • Show me which tower is the tallest on the castle.
  • Which character has the most balloons?
  • What is the cheapest thing to buy at the funfair?
  • What colour has the least number of cabins on the Ferris wheel?
  • Which hot air balloon is flying the highest?

  • Is the booth or the castle closer to you?
  • There is 1 yellow star in the fair, can you find it?
  • Which tower is the furthest from the princess?
  • What numbered window is below the princess?
  • Which numbered window is on the highest tower of the castle? What are the numbers of the smallest windows of the castle?
  • Which clown is closer to you?
  • Which ride looks the biggest? What ride is beside the castle? What ride is to the left of the swings?
  • What snack is beside the clown juggling?
  • Which hot air balloon is the closest to the Ferris wheel?
  • What direction is the clown with the balloons running? What directions are the children on the swings going?
  • What is behind the ticket booth and beside the Ferris wheel?
  • What direction is the carousel going? And the clown juggling?
  • Is the princess looking left, or right?
  • Is the flag on the castle blowing left, or right?

  • Can you find the patterns in the balloons on the dart games? If you were to put one more colour at the end of each row, what would it be?
  • What is the pattern on the Ferris wheel? What colour is missing to finish it? What number of circles are missing to finish it?
  • How many times can you see the red and white stripes pattern?
  • What pattern do you see the most in the poster?
  • If the second flower bed (From the left) was a pattern what colour would come next?
  • What colour pattern can you see on top of the swings?
  • If the horses on the carousel are a pattern what horse comes next?
  • What is the pattern on the buttons at the top of the darts stand?

  • Can you find a star, rhombus, square, hexagon (6 sides)? Where are they?
  • What other shapes can you find?
  • What shape has 10 sides? (Hint: they are either white or yellow and you had to count them earlier)
  • What shapes make up the clouds?
  • What is the shape of the roofs of the towers? What is the shape of the towers?
  • What shapes can you see on the Ferris wheel including the cabins?
  • What shape do you see the most?
  • What is the shape of the balls the clown is juggling?
  • What is the name of the lines going across? And going along the hot air balloons? (Stripes)
  • How many triangles can you spot in the darts game?
  • Where are the circles on the castle?
  • Where are the diamonds on the swings?
  • What is the shape of the clown noses?
  • What shapes can you see on the clothes of the clown that’s running?
  • Did you learn any new shapes?

  • How many colours can you identify?
  • Draw your own clown but make sure to decorate their clothes with loads of different shapes like the ones in the poster. Make sure to give them a name and describe their personality! Write a story about their day at the Maths Fair.
  • Design your own hot air balloons with different shapes as the balloons, remember to use loads of different colours!
  • Can you try remake the scene in class or at home? What will you use as the background? Perhaps a box to make a diorama or a page to make a collage or picture.
  • Write a story based on the poster. What kind of day would the three friends on the left have at the Maths Fair? Do you think they use a lot of Maths?

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