D11 – Maze
Maze Back to calendar This amazing bauble is truly one of a kind! It features a maze on its surface, just waiting for you to solve it and find the exit. Download the activity at the bottom of the page. Maze Back to Resources [...]
D10 – Christmas Tree Maths
Christmas Tree Maths Back to calendar Decorate the tree with numbers and find the final one in the star. To place numbers, add the 2 numbers below. Download the activity at the bottom of the page. Christmas Tree Maths Back to Resources [...]
D9 – Riddle9: age
How Old? Back to the calendar How Many? Back to Resources Paul, Niamh, Lucy and Dara are four siblings. Solve the riddle and figure out their age. Use the 'Check' button to verify your answers. Download a paper version at the bottom of [...]
Snowflake Geometry
Snowflake Geometry Description Did you know that it's possible to “let it snow” by cutting a folded piece of paper? Prepare your imaginations, paper sheets, scissors...and a bit of geometry too - to see the magic happen. Materials Paper Scissors Marker Ruler Instructions Draw and cut a simple shape on [...]
D7 – Scramble tiles
Scramble Tiles Back to calendar The board have been broken! Help the elves to fix it. Rearrange the tiles to form the board again. Draw the shapes directly on the grid. Or cut the different shapes and display them directly on the board. None of the tiles should overlap or [...]
D6 – Riddle8: boxes
How Many? Back to the calendar How Many? Back to Resources The elves are getting ready to wrap presents. They have different sized boxes for the different items. Solve the riddle and figure out how many boxes they can wrap. Use the 'Check' [...]
Napier bones
Skill: Addition, multiplication, place value. Resources: Napier’s Bones template (see below) Activity: This activity uses an interesting historical context to help pupils understand place value ideas. It is also a fun and interesting way of performing multiplication. Pupils can check their answer using a calculator or performing long multiplication. Questions: 1. Study page number [...]
Arrow Maze
Skill: Critical thinking Resources: The game board, cut outs for the game board Activity: Starting at the arrow in the black square, find your way to the central target. Move any distance in the direction indicated. Whenever you stop, change direction as indicated by the arrow on which you land. Note this is a [...]
Vitruvian Man
Skills:Representing and interpreting data, fractions, decimals, ratio, length measuring. Resources: Measuring tape (one per two pupils), string, record table (see below). Activity: Divide pupils into groups of two. Introduce pupils to Leonardo Da Vinci’s concept of human proportions. Show them how to properly measure parts of their body using a measuring tape. Pupils, in [...]
What’s the question?
What's the Question? Skills:Addition, subtraction, algebra Resources: A variety of concrete resources to support addition and subtraction Activity: Give pupils any number between one and ten, for example, 6. Explain that ’6’ is the answer but you do not know what the question is. Ask pupils what the question might [...]