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Daily maths with Carol Vorderman
Be an explorer with these maths investigations
5-a-day - keep your mind active with 5 maths questions a day
Oxford Owl's games and activities
White Rose Maths' lessons for home learning
Maths games and ebooks from Pearson
Download your free Brainy Maths Early Years pack
Maths games
Learn to code
Coding courses for older children
Challenge 6: Patchwork Patterns
Take this paper patchwork pattern challenge and then share your photos on Facebook! Have a go here.
For under 5s – Try NRich’s Pattern Making activity instead
Extension for older children – Continue the pattern theme to try this activity.
Challenge 15: Count Your Sheep
Today’s Bedtime Maths puzzle is the Colossally Cool Cube.
Extension for older children: Explore how a Rubik’s cube works – can you solve one?
Challenge 22: Maths Muscle Workout
Try some of Cool Maths Kids’ mental maths games here, from Island Chase to Minus Mission.
For younger children: practise counting or recognising the shape of different numbers with your child. Find some counting games here.
For older children: Topmarks has more number games for different ages here.
Challenge 30: Code Away
Spend twenty minutes on a coding challenge in one of the “learn to code” websites. What did you make?
For younger children: One of the skills behind coding is arranging and sorting ideas and patterns. Try this collecting challenge or this packing challenge from NRich.
Challenge 38 - Playing Card Mental Maths
Use playing cards to practice your number bonds to 10 or to 20. Find the instructions on the Facebook post.
For younger children: Design your own card game and share it with us- for example, practicing adding or subtracting numbers together through rolling two dice and adding the numbers up.
For older children: Try more maths games with playing cards here: https://www.transum.org/Maths/Activity/Playing_Cards/
Challenge 50 - Riddle Riddle
Join in with some riddling in our Facebook group and explore many more by following this link and have unlimited fun with your friend and family https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCttFk8-Nysnyw59aNlWOWzw
For younger kids: What does a cloud wear under his raincoat?
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