Teaching And Home Schooling Ideas

Practise your times tables with a pack of cards. Turn over 2 cards and multiply the numbers together. Eg 2 x 8 =16. First person the say the correct answer wins the cards. We said ace was 1, Jack was 11, Queen was 12 and King was 0.

Butterfly Multiplication. I cut out a butterfly shape from some spare cardboard I had. I wrote out some multiplication and division calculations on the cardboard butterfly. I wrote the answers on stickers. Place the sticker answer over the calculation. I saw this idea on the imagination tree instagram account.

Sewing Geometric Multiplication Circles. We've been finding new ways to practise x tables. Write down the answers to a times table. We started with the 2 x table. 0,2,4,6,8,10,12,14,16,18,20,22,24. We talked about the numbers being even and the pattern repeating. On small circles that are labelled around the circle at equal points 0 to 9 we drew the geometric pattern. So look at the answers and the pattern for the unit digit goes 0,2,4,6,8,0 etc. On a small circle rule lines from 0 to 2, 2 to 4, 4 to 6, 6 to 8 and 8 to 0. Then using embroidery thread or wool sew the geometric pattern onto a larger circle labelled with the numbers 0 to 9 at equal intervals. Repeat for the other times tables, we are doing one a day! It's making practising tables more fun!

Use a 100 Square and up to 4 dice and some coloured pencils. Each player takes it in turn to roll the dice, start with 2 dice. What maths statement can you make with the numbers? eg if you throw a 6 and 5, you could add 6+5 =11, multiply 6x5=30, or subtract 6-5=1. Write down the chosen calculation and colour in the answer. Aim of the game is to get 4 in a row vertically, horizontally or diagonally. When you've exhausted numbers with 2 dice, you can add 3 or 4 dice to make your maths calculations more tricky and make larger numbers. Score 1 point each time a player gets 4 numbers in a row.

Draw a tally chart of birds seen in the garden. After we made our bird feeder from a recycled milk carton we talked about the birds we might see and noted the birds that were using the feeder. (Mainly sparrows, blue tits and great tits.) We had a look through some bird books and listed birds we might see in the garden and that we have seen in the past. (Good reading exercise.) Then we drew a chart and picked out 7 birds from our list. Ask / Explain what tally marks are and how to represent 5. (Good for practising 5xtable.) Fill in the tally chart with the number of sightings.

Practise x tables with a Calculator Connect 4 game. Draw the grid of numbers.  You can only use the following numbers to multiply.  1,3,5,6,7,8,9,11,13 Take it in turns to multiply two different numbers together using a calculator.  Colour in the number on the grid.  First player to get 4 in a row wins.  We carried on and got a point for each four in a row we made. 

Practise x tables with a x table colouring sheet. We have a minecraft fan in the house and twinkl have some minecraft x table sheets on their website. I am sure that they will have other themes so you can get your child to practise their x tables whilst colouring in a picture they like.

We counted some bean seeds we had saved and shared them out. You could count sweets, milk carton tops, buttons, lego pieces, coins etc We then worked out half, quarter and eighths by sharing the seeds out. We also practised counting in 2s, 3s, 5s. You could workout different fractions.