Some Mathsmas ideas:
- What gift could you fit in this box? This stocking?
- If this stocking contained 10 presents, what size might they be?
- Draw a (reindeer/santa/elf/present/stocking/wreath) with an (area/perimeter) of x units.
- Make a Christmas design that is three-quarters red and one quarter green (use grid or isometric paper or pattern blocks)
- My friend and I ate all of a Christmas cake which was cut into 8 equal pieces. What fraction of the cake might each of us have eaten?
- Advent number of the day - use today's date or 25 for Christmas and ask students to write as many questions as they can think of with that number as the answer
- Two presents have the same volume but different mass. What could they be?
- What methods could you use to try to determine what is in a present without opening it?
- I used 1 metre of ribbon to wrap a present in the shape of a rectangular prism. What might the dimensions of the present be?
- I have 1 square metre of wrapping paper. What size presents could I wrap with it?
- Draw a Christmas design that has four lines of symmetry.
- Draw a Christmas design that has rotational symmetry.
What else would you add to this list?
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