Maths help for parents of children aged 5 to 11

Here is a very simple game for two players aimed at re-inforcing the term ‘one less than’ with numbers up to 6. This is aimed at children just getting ready to go to school or those who are in the Foundation Stage. It is a page from an exciting new venture called ‘You Are Brainy’ which will be launching at the end of the summer and they have kindly allowed me to put up one or two of their resources.

Maths game: one less than

Baby dragon is learning to breathe fire by adding two to numbers. Can you help him practice?

The clowns are trying to sort their balls into order. Help by dragging the numbers on to the yellow balls, in order, starting with the lowest from left to right.

Press Go when finished.

Brighten up the ocean! The next in our colouring series. It’s now time to explore the underwater world and colour 10 fish. Just as before, it’s one click for red, two clicks for blue and three clicks for gold.

Help Jim colour in the stars he has got for good work!

Click in a star:

Once for red.

Twice for blue.

Three times for Gold.

Help Ted colour his white balloons. Just by clicking in the balloons the colour will change.

One click will make a balloon go Red.

Two clicks will turn the balloon Blue.

Three clicks will change the colour to Gold.

Don’t forget to press Go when you think the colours are correct!

This is great practice at counting, why not have a go?

Ted’s out looking for planes and helicopters in the sky near Heathrow airport.

How many can he see altogether?

The baby dinosaurs are all out playing in the desert.

Can you help count them all?

Great practice at counting up to 10.

Another great little game for counting two lots of things, up to 5.

Matilda’s looking for all the monkeys and gorillas in the forest.

Can you help her count them?

An extra bonus today as I felt in the mood to write a game. The first in our addition and subtraction series, where children are given a number and have to state what is needed to make it up to 5.

Dora Dino has 5 eggs somewhere. She can only see some of them, so can you help her work out how are needed to make 5.