Practical Ideas Maths Worksheets for Further Resources

Clapping games are a great way to improve counting skills.

Finger waggling to show quick responses to early mental arithmetic questions.

Try counting the number of children on a bus as they get on and get off with each stop.

Glove puppets are a great resource for helping with counting up and down.

Splashing around and doing maths!

Playing Kim's Game is a great way to improve memory skills.

Be prepared to get a little wet with this activity!

Use the sand pit for counting and tracing numbers!

A small box can be a treasure trove for maths activities!

The kitchen is probably the best room of all for maths activities.

Skittles is a great game to help with counting and subtraction.

Fun activity for children learning to count.

A good game to play with young children who are learning to count.

A different way to practise counting: keep your ears open and listen!!

Taking 5p off the cost of Easter eggs.

Play the well known game, but with shapes rather than letters.

Some ideas to help with making patterns and logical thinking.

Activity to help with understanding symmetry.

Activity to help with understanding symmetry.

Activity to help with understanding symmetry.

Activity to help understand symmetry.

Long term project planting seeds and watching them grow!

A pair of balance scales and plenty of coins to find which coin weighs the heaviest.

A pair of balance scales and plenty of coins to find which of the new coins weighs the heaviest.

Building towers to help with counting

Some data handling ideas when planning a party.

Paper plates are a great resource to help with mental arithmetic.

Practical activity estimating and comparing weights.

Fun ideas to help with counting in tens.

Halving is one of the first steps in understanding fractions.

Plates and biscuits are a great way to introduce sharing equally.

Dominoes are great for maths work. Here are just a couple of ideas.

Great activity for reinforcing the idea that addition can be done in any order.

Make number strips in tens.

Simple idea that helps with counting in tens and ones.

Simple idea that helps with counting in tens and ones with new coins.

Describing position with cubes - harder than it looks!

A fun activity to do on the floor, especially if you have some fast toy cars!

Combine dice rolling and bingo to help with addition.

Hoops or loops of rope provide a great resource for Venn diagrams

Tips for using matchsticks to help with maths.

Toy animals are a great resource to use in maths: here is just one idea.

Kim's game is a fun game for young children to help develop memory skills.