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Maths starters/quick activities: Starting from 0, count around the circle. See how high you can get in 1 minute or time how quickly you can count to a given number. Repeat and try and beat your time. You can count in jumps of different numbers, go forwards or backwards etc. Odd/even numbers. Stand up for an odd number, sit down for an even number. Count in different ways as a class. Forwards and backwards. In jumps of 2,5 and 10. March, tap head, jump etc.Bossy numbers. Give each child a number card. One or two children have to help order the other children. The numbers can be a sequence, or random numbers to 100 etc. The possibilities are endless.Find your partners games. These work for almost any occasion. Give out cards/objects or anything really that the children have to match. I start with simply giving out numbers and the children having to find everyone else with their number. It then gets harder with some children having a calculation and others having the answer. They have to match. Or shapes have to find their properties. In money I will ask them to find the matching coin, some children have coins, others the written amount etc etc. There are loads of options. Sometimes only two children will be a pair, other times there will be 4/5 in a group. Ordering numbers. As above, each. Child has a number and see if they can put themselves in order. When they are in order you can ask questions - “if you are holding the number one more than 15, jump forward” etc.Blank number lines. I often draw a blank line across the board and put 0 at the start and whatever number I want at the end. I then ask the children to find the middle number and draw it in. I keep adding numbers until we have a number line. If any need moving as we go, we talk about why.Number fans. These can be used in so many ways. Show a number, one more/less, tens/ones in a number, adding/subtracting, number bonds etc etc. Children can work in pairs or as individuals. Shape fans. Doesn’t need explaining.Number lines. I give each child a number line to 20/30/50 and a peg. They have to put the peg on a given number. Again can be used for any topic.Shapes in a bag. Adult or children to describe the shape, others to guess. Can link with shape fans.YouTube videos for all sorts of things. (Watch then first!). I use them for counting, shapes, measures...anything really.Small plastic clocks for children to show times to the o’clock/half past.Tell me the question. Put a number (the answer) on the board and children can give you questions. I like this as children start simple and get really competitive to find difficult options!! Missing numbers. Write a number sequence on the board and miss out some. Children to show ideas on number fan/whiteboard etc. Multilink cubes. Give each child a given number of cubes, all the same colour. I often given 10. Using the cubes show a way to make number bonds to 10. I also use this for adding/subtraction etc. I have laminated an A5 piece of paper that has been split into four colours. Red, blue, yellow and green. Each child has a card and a peg. This is good for patterns. I will start a pattern on the board and the children have to put the peg on the correct colour to continue the pattern.Quick fire some number facts the children should know. I can differentiate quickly, so from 1+1= all the way to double 8, how many more to make 50 if I have 46? EtcWhen doing measuring, I will often ask the children to find an object longer/shorter than a given object around the room.I have Numicon sets to 10 made up in little bags. I can quickly pass them out, one to each child or in pairs. I use these in lots of different ways. Simply start with show me... and move onto making teen numbers, ordering, adding, taking away etc.I sometimes use whiteboards. The children can show their answer and show it on the board. The children in my class love timers. Whatever we are doing, if I can introduce a time challenge they love it. How many_____ can you do in a minute? Helps with their concept of time and helps with counting. We try to get outside whenever possible. Sometimes I put numbers/shapes/coins anything really around the playground. I say a number, calculation, description etc and the children have to go to the correct number/shape/coin etc.I put all the number tiles to 100 outside and the children have to match them to the 100 square we have. To challenge further the children don’t use the 100 square, instead they make their own. We pretend our bodies are number lines. I will say our shoes are 0 and our head is 20. What must our waist be? Then we count down and up the number line.Representing numbers. I say a number and the children have to find and represent the number using classroom resources. Sometimes we start by counting the children and the someone tallies the number on the board. When done regularly the children get really good at counting in 5’s. Number names on dice. I have two large dice with number names to 12 on the faces. We throw the two dice round the circle and when you catch it, you have to read the number on the top. You could do this with numerals too. Songs. I love farmer Pete for number bonds to 10. There are so many songs out there for almost any topic.I use some of the IWB games we have at school. The early year maths pack we have, has lots of different interactive games. My only concern with these, is it is often one child doing the work and the others watching. However, to help with this I use timers to speed the children up!Ideas from others: I love shoot the sheriff. Two children stand back to back with hands forming a pistol. Teacher asks a question and if child knows they turn around say "bang, bang" and then give the answer. The winning child stays up and faces a new opponentOne of my reasoning starters is ‘which is the odd one out?’ Give three random numbers, chn say which one is the odd one out and why. There are no right answers but gets them thinking, comparing, using math language and explaining. We often get into mock arguments when I disagree with their choice.I also have a metal coffee tin that I drop coins into for counting in 1s 2s 5s 10s. Another game I play is choral ping-pong. I say a number they say a number back, whilst using pretend bats to hit a pretend ball. We do 1more/1less, number bonds, or just counting. My contribution is the songs I sing - Twinkle Twinkle little star = counting in 1s to 30; If you’re happy and you know it = count in 2s to 20 repeatedly; Grand old duke of York = count in 5s; Happy Birthday = count backwards from 40.Dominoes: kids sit in a circle with a whiteboard/pen. Tip a pile of dominoes in the middle. Give them 4 minutes to grab one domino at a time and create sums from it on their whiteboards. Do it twice - the second time they need to beat their original score. Giant cards/dominoes: place large numbers in a line. You need 2 teams a short distance away. Give each team a pile of dominoes (the same number). They have to run one at a time and place the domino on the correct card by adding the dots. The first team to finish wins. Unifix cubes/dice: Children sit in pairs on one side of the playground. On the other side place a pile of unifix cubes. One child throws a dice and the other child goes to collect that number of unifix cubes. They carry on until there aren't any cubes left. The winning pair has the most.In my reception class we count using our webs ,I'm Spiderman. Children stand behind their chairs and do not run around.-Place numbers around the room in the 2/5/10 times table Children and teacher sing the song ‘one little finger’ with the actions. One little finger, one little finger, two little fingers tap tap tap, put your finger up, put your finger down. -Change the next part of the song with the words ‘point to the answer of ....‘ - 5 x 2 - point to.... 2+2 -the students point to the answer as quickly as possible.-the teacher then leads the beginning of the song to carry on the game.. ‘one little...’(Hope this makes sense. You can use this game for phonics letters and reading sight words etc..) ................
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