KS1 Maths Club Activities
These hands-on activities are ideal for students aged 5-7 to investigate.
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problemFavouriteBiscuit Decorations
Andrew decorated 20 biscuits to take to a party. He lined them up and put icing on every second biscuit and different decorations on other biscuits. How many biscuits weren't decorated?
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problemFavouriteA City of Towers
In this town, houses are built with one room for each person. There are some families of seven people living in the town. In how many different ways can they build their houses?
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problemSkip Counting
Find the squares that Froggie skips onto to get to the pumpkin patch. She starts on 3 and finishes on 30, but she lands only on a square that has a number 3 more than the square she skips from. -
problemFavouriteButterfly Flowers
Can you find two butterflies to go on each flower so that the numbers on each pair of butterflies adds to the number on their flower?
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problemFavouriteWhat Shape and Colour?
Can you fill in the empty boxes in the grid with the right shape and colour?
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problemFavouriteShare Bears
Yasmin and Zach have some bears to share. Which numbers of bears can they share so that there are none left over?
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problemFavouriteRobot Monsters
Use these head, body and leg pieces to make Robot Monsters which are different heights.
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problemFavouriteSort the Street
Sort the houses in my street into different groups. Can you do it in any other ways?
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problemFavouriteNumber Lines
Leah and Tom each have a number line. Can you work out where their counters will land?
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problemFavouriteTwo-digit Targets
You have a set of the digits from 0 to 9. Can you arrange these in the five boxes to make two-digit numbers as close to the targets as possible?
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problemFavouriteIncey Wincey Spider
You'll need two dice to play this game against a partner. Will Incey Wincey make it to the top of the drain pipe or the bottom of the drain pipe first?
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problemThree Block Towers
Take three differently coloured blocks - maybe red, yellow and blue. Make a tower using one of each colour. How many different towers can you make?
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problemFavouriteMixed-up Socks
Start with three pairs of socks. Now mix them up so that no mismatched pair is the same as another mismatched pair. Is there more than one way to do it?
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problemTeddy Bear Line-up
What is the least number of moves you can take to rearrange the bears so that no bear is next to a bear of the same colour? -
problemFavouriteMissing Middles
Can you work out the domino pieces which would go in the middle in each case to complete the pattern of these eight sets of three dominoes?
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problemFavouriteMaking Sticks
Kimie and Sebastian were making sticks from interlocking cubes and lining them up. Can they make their lines the same length? Can they make any other lines?
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problemDomino Join Up
Can you arrange fifteen dominoes so that all the touching domino pieces add to 6 and the ends join up? Can you make all the joins add to 7? -
problemFavouriteFour Triangles Puzzle
Cut four triangles from a square as shown in the picture. How many different shapes can you make by fitting the four triangles back together?
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problemWhose Face?
These are the faces of Will, Lil, Bill, Phil and Jill. Use the clues to work out which name goes with each face. -
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problemFavouriteNim-7
Can you work out how to win this game of Nim? Does it matter if you go first or second?