I wanted an activity that my Y1 children could access independently whilst sitting on the carpet before the register first thing in the morning. I put together a selection of 'spot the difference' activities, to encourage quiet teamwork, counting and observation skills, and to allow me time to talk to parents etc if I need to.

Differentiated division activities, enough for two sessions. The first activity introduces division, the second activity includes division with remainders. Both intended as adult led activities, but could be practise once children have been taught the skills.

I made a PowerPoint and activity sheets to help my Year 3 pupils become familiar with solving number riddles such as 'I choose a mystery number, double it and add 2, I end up with 12. What was my mystery number?'

Some hands on Christmas problem solving activities I made for the last week in school before the Christmas break. My year threes loved these and worked on them for ages (much longer than I expected) in little groups. It was good to see children who usually struggle in maths shining during this session, as they were great at visual problems and could see things the other children couldn't! I used the little coloured match sticks for the children to arrange and rearrange on their tables.

Three differentiated activity sheets for LA, MA and HA children on adding whole numbers and fractions together.

3 x differentiated activity to help children practice their data handling skills. LA children have a poster of aliens to count, sort and record on a bar graph. MA children have a larger selection of toys on a poster to tally then record on a bar graph. HA children have higher numbers of different types of food on a poster to tally then record on a bar graph. There are also questions on the data for the children to answer afterwards.

I used this activity when we were working on measuring in cm within our 'Ourselves' topic. The children worked in pairs and used rulers and tape measures to measure the length of their hands, ears, feet, etc.

Differentiated activties to allow children to practice finding halves and quarters of 2D shapes and numbers, and then a follow up lesson in the same format to allow children to find quarters of 2D shapes and numbers.