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A Lunar New Year maths activities pack for EYFS–KS2. Includes problem-solving ideas, cross-curricular maths tasks and blank firecrackers, dumplings and fortune cookies for flexible use.
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This Lunar New Year Maths Activities Pack is a flexible, idea-rich resource designed to support meaningful maths learning across EYFS, KS1 and KS2 , using engaging cultural contexts linked to Lunar New Year celebrations . The resource provides a range of practical, open-ended maths activities that can be easily adapted to suit different year groups, abilities and curriculum units. Teachers can select activities to match current learning while embedding maths into a rich, cross-curricular theme. Included activity ideas support: Problem solving and reasoning – creating maths problems linked to the 12 zodiac animals Word problems and literacy links – writing shopping lists for festive items (e.g. dumplings, firecrackers) and using pretend money to shop Number and counting – exploring the lunar calendar, counting days in celebrations and creating date-based maths problems Pattern and rhythm – dragon dance number patterns, clapping and skip counting in 2s, 3s and 5s Early patterning – repeating patterns using coloured dragon scales for younger children Number properties – exploring lucky and unlucky numbers and creating ‘lucky number’ maths challenges Sorting, data handling and statistics – dumpling sorting, tallying, graphing and creating bar charts or pie charts Shape, space and measure – exploring symmetry with paper lanterns and calculating perimeter and area for older pupils Geometry – using tangrams and 2D shapes to create zodiac animals, naming shapes or measuring angles Calculation and fluency – firecracker skip counting, ordering numbers and solving multiplication or division problems Fractions – using fortune cookies to introduce fractions or reveal word problem answers The pack includes blank firecrackers, dumplings and fortune cookies , allowing teachers and pupils to create their own differentiated maths tasks. This makes the resource ideal for mixed-age classes , enrichment weeks or whole-school Lunar New Year learning.
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“Matches our White Rose planning almost week for week.”
I stopped adapting things from three different sites and now start here. The odd week does not line up exactly, but the small step it covers is always somewhere in the same block.
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Being able to change two questions for the child who joined us in January, without rebuilding the whole sheet, is worth the subscription on its own.
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“Good value, and the answers are actually on it.”
Small thing, but half the free sheets online expect you to work the answers out yourself. My TA can run a group on this without a briefing first.
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Key Events & Seasonal
Y1
Key Events & Seasonal
Y1
Key Events & Seasonal
Y1
Key Events & Seasonal
Y1
Key Events & Seasonal
Y1
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