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Australian money swat is a fun way to develop your students recognition of Australian coins and notes. Each student sits in a circle with a fly swat. One person pulls calling cards out from a bag. The first person to swat the corresponding fly keeps the fly. When all the flies have been collected, each player counts up how many flies they swatted. The person who has swatted the most flies wins! There are 3 games included in this PDF download, each varying in difficulty: Game One: Australian coi

In this activity students develop their recognition of Australian coins. Students find coins that are hidden around the classroom (or outside if you want to do some outdoor learning!). Next to each hidden coin is a letter. Students write the letter above the corresponding coin on their worksheet. Once complete, this will reveal a description of an Australian coin. Students write and draw the answer. There are six different sets to choose from (one for each Australian coin). Play one set at a ti

This fun Halloween-themed activity is designed to be a math centre for students to practise their subtraction and skills with numbers 0 - 20. You can tailor this game depending on the skill that you want your students to practise. You can use the subtraction tokens only, addition tokens only, or combine them for students to practise both. In this game each student has a trick-or-treat board in front of them. They need to fill their trick-or-treat bag by correctly answering subtraction or additi

This FREE activity is designed to be a math center to develop your students ability to identify the features of 3D shapes. Students take turns to roll a dice and move around the board. When they land on a square they read the instructions and cover a corresponding shape in the middle of the board with their colour counter (for example, if a player lands on ‘cover a shape with 6 faces’, they could place their colour counter on a cube or a rectangular prism). The game ends when all the shapes in t

This FREE activity is designed to be a maths center to develop your students ability to identify the features of 2D shapes. Students take turns to roll a dice and move around the board. When they land on a square they read the instructions and cover a corresponding shape in the middle of the board with their colour counter (for example, if a player lands on ‘cover a shape with 4 corners’, they could choose to place their colour counter on a square, a rhombus, a rectangle or a trapezium). The gam

This activity is designed to be a math centre activity for students to practise their multiplication skills. In this game each student has a hedgehog who likes eating grasshoppers. They need to collect grasshoppers for their hedgehog by correctly answering multiplication questions on grasshopper tokens that they pull out of a bag. They will need to beware of rocks that could get pulled out of the bag! Rocks can’t be eaten and if a student pulls one of these out, they will need to return ALL the

This activity is designed to be a math centre activity for students to practise their addition and subtraction skills with numbers 1 - 20. Each player selects a rocket board with a unique combination of 8 numbers. Players then take turns to select a card from a bag. The player then reads out the sum written on the card. Each player then needs to work out the sum and see if the answer is on their rocket. If it is, they get to put a bear counter on it (or whatever counters you have available!). Th

This bundle includes BOTH the Hungry Sharks Subtraction Game and Scavenger Puppies Addition Game! Hungry Sharks Subtraction Game (Numbers 0 - 20) This activity is designed to be a math centre activity for students to practise their subtraction skills with numbers 0 - 20. In this game each student has a hungry shark. They need to feed their shark by correctly answering subtraction questions on fish tokens that they pull out of a bag. They will need to beware of socks that could get pulled out o

This activity is designed to be a math centre activity for students to practise their addition skills with numbers 0 - 20. In this game each student has a puppy who likes collecting bones. They need to collect bones for their puppy by correctly answering addition questions on bone tokens that they pull out of a bag. They will need to beware of cactuses that could get pulled out of the bag! Cactuses spike puppies on the nose when they sniff them and if a student pulls one of these out, they will

This activity is designed to be a math centre activity for students to practise their subtraction skills with numbers 0 - 20. In this game each student has a hungry shark. They need to feed their shark by correctly answering subtraction questions on fish tokens that they pull out of a bag. They will need to beware of socks that could get pulled out of the bag! Sharks don’t like eating socks (eww!) and if a student pulls one of these out, they will need to return ALL the tokens they have collecte

Included you will find number cards featuring the numbers 1-100 which can be used in pocket dice. These numbers can be used to differentiate games (encouraging children to use higher/lower numbers). Number cards come with 6 different coloured chevron borders.

This resource allows students to practise their skip counting skills. The aim is to thread into the holes in order to tie up the monster! Included in this pack is: 2x Skip Counting by 2s 2x Skip Counting by 3s 2x Skip Counting by 5s 2x Skip Counting by 10s

Students use counters to move around the game board. When they land on a number, the student then counts on 5 more (For example, if the player lands on 12, they then count on 5 more: “13, 14, 15, 16, 17”). If they can do that successfully, they can stay on their space. If they can’t, they move back 2 spots. First person to make it back to start is the winner. Included in this pack are 5 differentiated ‘Give me 5’ board games for students to practise ‘counting on’ from any given number. The boa