Christmas Maths Reasoning Activities Bundle

Get into the festive spirit while providing your students with the opportunity to apply reasoning to maths tasks in the days leading up to Christmas. They can be used at the start of each day, or when there is a convenient slot. Alternatively, they can be incorporated into the daily maths lesson.

Paired work is encouraged since the discussions that result when working together help to clarify students’ thoughts and ideas. Each slide contains notes that give advice on how to use the activities, what to look out for, and answers where applicable.

The zip file contains three Power point presentations (45 slides each) designed for KS1, Lower KS2 and Upper KS2. The 24 activities for each age group make use of games and problems such as comparing feet and height lengths with reindeer lengths, estimating the speed that Santa travels around the world, which numbers of buttons can be used for decorating snowmen when split between a given number of children, and deciding which party table to sit at in order to get the most chocolate.