Pancake Day Subitizing 1 to 5

A simple interactive maths game, designed in Powerpoint to support the development of children’s subitizing skills - the ability to instantly recognise number amounts from 1 to 5 (without counting). Children are presented with different arrangements of pancakes from 1 to 5. Children identify the number of pancakes shown and click the matching number card. This is an ideal activity to develop subitizing skills. An ideal activity for whole class teaching with the theme of pancakes. As a follow up activity children can make their own play-dough pancakes and arrange their pancakes in different ways using the play-dough boards. This also works well as a small group follow up activity - For example, by asking the children “Can you make me (x amount) of pancakes with the play-dough?” “Show me (x amount) of pancakes.” Ideal for assessing ELGs in a fun way.