Christmas Maths Stations with Ace the dog: 10 active maths tasks for Year 4-5 (KS2), 14 pages, 1-2 lessons, no prep.

Ace the corgi has lost a reindeer, miscounted the presents and let the naughty elves into the house. Your class helps him through 10 Christmas maths stations placed around the classroom or hall. Pupils move from station to station, solve the task and write their answers on the answer sheet.

What’s inside (14 A4 pages):

• 10 station cards: reindeer maze with adding, count the presents by colour, gingerbread men on baking sheets (multiplication), how long to decorate the tree in seconds and minutes, measure the paper decorations in centimetres and millimetres, chase out 50 elves at 5 a minute, buy Christmas presents, Christmas guests (share 18, 30 and 12 treats between 6 dogs), what fraction is left on the plates, how long until midnight
• Pupil answer sheets

Maths covered in the Year 4-5 version: addition, multiplication and division facts, measuring in cm and mm, converting seconds and minutes, money, fractions of a whole and time in hours and minutes.

How to use: Print the station cards, place them around the room and let pupils work in pairs with the answer sheet. Takes 1-2 lessons. Also works as a December maths circuit, a PE-hall activity or a last-day-of-term treat.

Good to know: This is the Year 4-5 version. The same 10 stations also exist for Year 2, Year 3 and Year 6-7, so a whole school can run the circuit at different levels. Prices on the shopping station are in dollars and the pages use American spelling. Written by a Danish primary teacher.