Junior Primary Pupils Maths Week Poster 2025
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 2024 poster ”Math caught a maths” – Click here
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 triangles on the sun?
- How many many birds are in the sky? How many are pink?
- How many many birds have spots? How many spots?
- How many balls are there? How many are yellow?
- How many butterfly can you see? How many have spots?
- How many stars on the butterfly?
- How many flowers are there on the grass? how many are white?
- How many lilys in the pond?
- How many frogs are there? How many in the pond?
- How many bucket are there? How many shapes?
- How many triangles can you spot?
- How many circles can you see?
- How many stars can you see?
- How many fishes in the bucket?
- How many stripe fishes? How many stripe?
- How many spotty fishes? how many spots?
- How many fishes jumping in the air?
- How many green lily pads are there?
- How many stars on the boys boots?
- How many spots on the girls boots?
- How many circles on the boys shirt?
- How many stripes on the girls dress?
You can use counters to help you with these problems.
- John caught 3 fishes and Anne caught 2 fishes, how many fishes do they have together?
- If there were 10 fishes in the pond, Sarah caught 2, how many fishes are left in the pond?
- John saw 2 red birds, Jake saw 2 yellow birds, and Luke 3 green balloons, how many birds flying in the sky?
- Can you find fishes/ fishes of the same colour?
- Can you find birds in the sky with the same colour?
- Can you match the squares on the bucket?
- Can you match the fish in the bucket to the fish in the pond? How many matches?
- Can you match the circle butterfly?
- Which bird is flying the highest?
- Show me which bird is nearest to the sun?
- Who has caught the most fishes?
- Which side have the most birds?
- Is there more frogs or more birds?
- Which fish is the biggest?
- Is bird or the frog closest to you?
- Which bucket has 1 fish?
- Which butterfly is the furthest from the boy?
- What fish bit the girl?
- Which bird is flying the highest?
- Which frog is closer to you?
- Which frog looks the biggest?
- What bucket is beside the boy?
- Which frogs are on the grass?
- Which finger did the fish bite?
- What is above the girl?
- Who has their fishing line in the pond?
- What side is the sun on left, or right?
- Which lily is nearest to you?
- Can you find the patterns on the buckets? what shape are they?
- What is the pattern on the boys shirt?
- How many times can you see the green and purple stripes pattern?
- What pattern do you see the most in the poster?
- If the group of frog on the grass (From the left) was a pattern what colour would come next?
- What colour pattern can you see on the boys boots?
- If the cattails on the pond are a pattern what cattails comes next?
- What is the pattern on the frogs?
- Can you find a star, square, stripe? Where are they?
- What shapes is the sun?
- What shape are bucket?
- What shapes make up the clouds?
- What is the shape of the cattails?
- What is the shapes lily pads?
- What shape do you see the most?
- What is the shape of the blue butterfly?
- How many stripes can you see in the navy bird?
- How many circles can you see in the green bird?
- Where are the circle shape fish?
- What is the shape of the bird’s beak?
- What shapes is the frog’s eyes?
- Did you learn any new shapes?
- How many colours can you identify?
- Draw your own fish and decorate different shapes and patterns 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 park with a pond.
- Design your own fishes with different shapes as the fishes, 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 park? Do you think they use a lot of Maths?
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