Christmas Maths Stations with Ace the dog: 10 active maths tasks for Year 6-7 (upper KS2 and early KS3), 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 (show your working as multiplication), decorating time in seconds and minutes, measure the paper decorations in centimetres and millimetres, chase out 200 elves at 7 every 10 minutes (rate problems), buy Christmas presents with decimal prices, Christmas guests (share 48, 36 and 126 treats between 6 dogs), what fraction is left on the plates, how long until midnight
• Pupil answer sheets

Maths covered in the Year 6-7 version: multi-step multiplication and division, rates and proportion, measuring in cm and mm, converting units of time, adding decimals (money), fractions and time calculations.

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 6-7 version. The same 10 stations also exist for Year 2, Year 3 and Year 4-5, 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.