weekly maths activities in addition to the weekly maths games your child comes home with we have put together a range of fun



Weekly Maths Activities
In addition to the weekly Maths games your child comes home with we
have put together a range of fun activities for you to do with your
child. These activities are intended to promote investigative and
enquiry skills, and the discussions you have will be invaluable to
your child’s mathematical development.
Please choose one activity each week; these can be recorded in your
child’s Maths homework book or just done for fun.
The activities are grouped in different mathematical themes, but they
don’t have to be done in order, simply choose one that you and your
child find interesting. Most children love maths but as with
everything, there are those that don’t. Helping your child to have fun
with maths will help them to become more confident and willing to have
a go at maths. I hope you enjoy working though these activities with
your child.
T ime
Diary
Keep a diary of the times you do different things this week. E.g. when
you get up, visit a friend, eat breakfast, play, go to school, read,
go to bed etc.
Convert Clocks
If you have a digital clock, try to write the time in an analogue way,
if you have an analogue clock, write the time digitally or on the 24
hour clock. Check the time together at regular intervals.
TV Times
If you watch TV, when are your favourite programmes on? What time do
they finish? How long are they on for? Who spends the most time
watching TV in your house? On which day do you watch TV the
most/least?
Time Yourself
How long does it take you to do different things? Brush your teeth/eat
breakfast/get to school/have a shower/clean your room/do 10 star
jumps/ hop around the garden, play a favourite game, etc. What can you
do in two minutes? Try lots of different things!
Record these timed activities in a table and write questions for
someone to find the answers too from the data collected.
Birthdays
Look at a calendar. Find out how many days there are in a week, in
each month, in a year. How many weeks are in a year? How many months
are there in a year? Name them. Which is the sixth/last/third month
etc? When are the birthdays or important dates in your family’s year?
When is the Queen’s birthday? When is David Beckham’s birthday? Put
them in order. Make your own calendar showing these special dates.
What are the different seasons and when do they start?

Mass
Kitchen
Record the weight of different foods you have in your kitchen. Which
are in kilograms (kg) and which are in grams (g)? Choose 5 packs and
order them from lightest to heaviest. Are the big packs always
heaviest? Are the small packs always lightest? Are there any units
that you are not familiar with? Write a list of these to discuss with
your teacher.
Recipe
Look at a recipe for something you like. In what units are the
ingredients measured? Follow the recipe reading the scales accurately,
and then enjoy sharing what you have made together! Take pictures of
the finished product to use in your homework book.
Scales
Weigh different items around your home using any scales you have
(kitchen , bathroom etc). Focus on accuracy. What items added together
make 2Kg, 100g, etc.
Fruit and Veg
Find a variety of fruit and vegetables. Estimate how much they weigh
then weigh them accurately. Put the items in order of mass. Can you
add any together to make 300g, 50g, 2Kg etc. Perhaps make a fruit
salad or vegetable stir fry. How much did the peelings weigh? This can
recorded in a table with the heading ‘estimation’ and ‘measurement’.

Cup man says “Accurate measuring is essential when making yummy fudge
cakes! Remember that 1 kg = 1000g.”
Capacity

Water
In the bath/kitchen sink/ paddling pool/bucket etc, pour water from
different sized containers. How many little ones does it take to fill
the largest one? Put the containers in order of capacity. Does the
tallest/shortest container have the biggest/smallest capacity? (Use
familiar objects like yoghurt pots, bowls, plastic bottles etc). Think
about a fun way to record this information and share in class.
Coloured Water
(A few drops of food colouring in the water makes reading scales much
easier). Use a measuring jug of coloured water to measure the capacity
(in litres and/or millilitres) of known items. Order them from
smallest to greatest capacity.
Units
In shops, look at and discuss any products that are sold by capacity,
eg. Paint, lemonade, soup, squash, milk. Estimate then calculate, how
much liquid you drink each day. Research how much an adult and a child
should drink in a day.

Length
Kilometres (km)
In a car/bus/atlas, discuss the distance between places. Walk a
kilometre from your home. Where does it take you? Record the distance
(in Km) of any journeys taken.
Metres (m)
At home find items shorter/longer than a metre. Order objects
according to length.
Centimetres and m
Who has the longest jump/shortest hair/shortest leg/longest throw etc.
Estimate first them measure accurately. Record as 142cm, 1.42m or 1m
42cm.
Millimetres and cm
Measure plants and monitor their growth, perhaps recording weekly.
Snail race – measure how far a snail travels in 10 minutes (wash your
hands!). Find a leaf that is 10cm, 43mm, etc. Record as 43mm or 4.3cm
or 4cm 3mm.
C up Man says “Remember that 1L = 1000ml. Remember 1km =
1000metres, 1 metre = 100 centimetres, 1cm = 10 millimetres.

Money
Receipts
When shopping with parents, can you find things more expensive/cheaper
that 50p, £1.00 etc. Which two items can be bought for £3.00 . Find
the cheapest bag of flour, rice etc. Look at the receipt together and
order some items from least to most expensive.
Shops
Use real money to play shops. Label toys/food etc with prices (up to
50p) and role play paying and giving change accurately. Items can cost
multiples of 5, 10 or 1 pence, depending on your child’s confidence.
Banks
Using piles of 2p, 5p and 10p to count. If I give you 6, 2ps how much
is that? 5 5ps, 8 10ps + 3 2ps etc. How many 2ps can you give me for
16p? I’ve got 10 5ps, how many 10ps will you swap me for them? Which
is best to have, 3 5ps, or 8 2ps. etc. Initially work with just one
value of coin, then add more, depending on your child’s confidence and
ability level.
Piggy bank
Give a selection of coins to count i.e.1p, 2p, 5p, 10p, 20p, 50p, £1
and £2. (perhaps empty a piggy bank). What is the best way to count
all the money? Big coins first? Make 10s? Put all the same values
together? Randomly? Start with a few coins then add more, depending on
your child’s confidence.
Decimals (Confident year 3 and above mathematicians)
Loads of Money
Have piles of £1, 10p and 1p coins. Put into piles to show £4.32,
£5.07. £5.70 etc. Make sure that your child knows that £5.70 is more
than £5.07. Transfer values onto cards and put into order.
Prices
Collect a range of different receipts for your child to investigate,
order the prices, focusing on their decimal values.
Coin Swap
With piles of £1, 10p and 1p coins, convert pounds to pence and vice
versa. E.g. £1.62 = 162p, then swap roles. Write the values on cards
and use to play snap to match equivalences.

Shape
2D and 1D
On walks, drives or at home, spot and name any 2D shapes that you see
(e.g. road signs = triangle, window = square). Draw or photograph
them, then label them with any properties that you know. This would be
great done in your homework book.
2D Cutting
From newspapers/magazines, cut out pictures of 2D shapes e.g. a
circular clock to make colourful pictures. Next to the pictures write
as many shape properties as you can think of.
Shape Make
Use an old food box or greetings card to make a range of 2D shapes.
Quadrilaterals and triangles should be easy, as should irregular
pentagons, hexagons, heptagons and octagons. You can draw around cans,
coins, etc for different circles. Cut out the shapes and use them as
templates to create interesting pictures. Can you use them to draw a
robot?
2D Drawing
Use accurate ruler skills (or shapes made above) to make a picture
using 2D shapes. E.g. a house with square windows, rectangular door,
and circular door handle.
Right Angle Hunt
Look around you to find lots of right angles (90 degrees). You could
play an eye-spy type game (“I spy with my little eye a right angle on
something blue/metal/over there etc.” Use a known right angle (like
the corner of a ruler or book or set square) to find other angles that
are smaller, same as, greater that a right angle.
3D/ 1D
Draw and name any 3D shapes that you see at home or on your travels.
Eg Beans can = a cylinder, ball = sphere etc. Have a go at naming them
and identifying some of their properties.
3D Model
Make a model with ‘junk’ using mathematical names for the shapes.
Discuss their properties e.g. vertices (corners), edges, faces etc.
Nets
Carefully unfold a small box (cereal box etc) and discuss its net. Use
as a template to make nets for your own boxes. Discuss the purpose of
the tabs. You could use your boxes for presents or for storage.
Research different nets on the internet for you to make.
Symmetry 1
Adults draw half a shape/picture/pattern, then your child can draw the
other so that it is symmetrical (the same on both sides). Swap roles.
Symmetry 2
Fold paper in half and cut out shapes across the fold so that they are
symmetrical shapes. Children decorate them so that they are still
symmetrical. (Butterflies and faces are always good).
Symmetry 3
Children write words upside-down under the normal writing. (This can
make good greetings cards). Children could draw or write when looking
in a mirror too.
Battleships
Play battleships on paper using coordinates e.g. (7,3). We remember
this by going along the corridor and up the stairs.

Multiplication Tables
Most children join in when we chant tables and can probably recite the
multiples of tables, but the skill is in picking facts from the
tables. Using objects can help with practicing the times tables.
For the:
2 times table - use ten 2p coins
3 times table – cut out 10 triangles and count the sides
4 times table – cut out 10 squares and count the sides
5 times table – use ten 5p coins
6 times table – cut out hexagons and count the sides
7 times table – draw around a 20p to give ten heptagons and count the
sides
8 times table – draw or make ten octopi and count the tentacles
9 times table – draw or make ten 9 spotted ladybirds and count the
spots
10 times table – use the 10p coins
Tables activities/questions (using example of 2 times table).
Count each coin up and down 1 x 2=2, 2 x 2 = 4 etc then 10 x 2 = 20, 9
x 2 = 18 etc. If I have seven 2ps, how much have I got? Nine 2ps. etc.
I have 16p, how many 2ps is that? I have 20p, how many 2ps is that?
What is 3 x 2 , 7 x 2, 14 divided by 2, 20 divided by 2 etc. Focus on
one multiplication table each week until your child is confident.

General Skills Games
These activities help your child in all areas of development and are
separate to the weekly maths home activities.
Car plates
Using number plates, children can create and order numbers, add and
multiply, identify odd and even numbers and patterns.
Card Games
Playing pontoon, rummy and whist are good card games to promote
addition.
Dice
Great to generate numbers for addition and multiplication.
Jigsaw Puzzles
Good for developing spatial awareness.
Board Games
Playing a range of fun board games including connect4, snakes and
ladders, mastermind, ludo, chess and darts are good for developing
wider reasoning and application skills.
Bingo and Guess my Number
Helps promote awareness of numbers.
Parsonage Farm Maths Games 2014

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