A straightforward, but engaging way for children to demonstrate their skills and understanding of times tables.

This resource was developed by a student to use on a recent school based training. The student created this for a Y4 class, adapting an original spelling activity. I don't think it's been used in this format before. Thank you Laura for letting me share it on this site. Read more »

This is one of a several very useful maths games based on ‘number properties’.

I first used this way back in the 1980’s; it is an ideal activity in that it puts the learning in the hands of the children and encourages good language (speaking and listening) skills and cooperative ‘play’. Read more »

The Gattegno (or Place Value) Chart is a simple tool to help children appreciate the  patterns in our counting structure. For example, the identical pattern evident when counting in 1’s, 10’s, 100’s, 1000’s... or greater

To familiarise young children with the Gattegno Chart ask them to: Read more »

This is a superb mathematics activity based on the game of 'Taboo'. The focus here is on shape vocabulary.

The download* contains 27 cards featuring shape related words. The game is for two players, a 'reader' and a 'guesser' The object of the game is for the 'reader' to help his/her partner (the 'guesser') to identify the correct vocabulary word on the card. The 'reader' must describe the word as clearly as possible without using any of the 'Taboo words. Read more »

With summer coming, and those long lazy days... it's easy to lose touch with old friends (especially if those old friends remind us of school-work).

However, losing touch completely is not such a good idea, I know that when August starts to fade your mind will return once again to planning and teaching... and if you are looking for a good maths resource or lesson idea you may well think of mathsticks.com. I hope so! Read more »

After several years teaching you quickly assemble hundreds of maths game ideas. Here are 10 boards suited to mathematical games.

There are no detailed notes or instructions with these boards, they are just what they are... Blank boards!

So, you (or your children) can use them as creatively as you wish. Read more »

A challenging file of nine screens four our Buttonalio software with "Well done", "Good Work" banners* behind the buttons. The focus is on quick recall of Times Tables... the challenge is to remove the buttons in the order, smallest multiplication problem to largest. Read more »