Make everyday maths practice quick and purposeful with these 60 ready-to-use KS1 Maths Daily Challenge Cards, featuring an editable 77-slide PowerPoint, matching PDF and complete answer guidance.

Designed for Year 1 and Year 2 (ages 5–7), this resource provides short maths challenges covering number, calculation, fractions, measurement, shape and reasoning. Pupils are encouraged to think, solve and explain their answers.

Each numbered challenge appears on its own slide, making it easy to select activities that match your pupils’ learning needs.

What’s Included?

• 60 numbered maths challenges across 10 topic areas
• Number & Place Value (Tasks 1–10): counting, comparing, ordering, number bonds and tens and ones
• Addition & Subtraction (Tasks 11–20): mental calculations, missing numbers, inverse operations and mathematical reasoning
• Multiplication, Grouping & Sharing (Tasks 21–28): equal groups, arrays, doubling, halving and sharing
• Fractions, Measurement, Time & Money (Tasks 29–49): simple fractions, length, mass, capacity, telling the time and money problems
• Shape, Position, Patterns & Reasoning (Tasks 50–60): shape properties, positional language, number patterns and problem solving
• Complete answer guidance for all 60 challenges, presented across 15 slides
• Teacher guide with topic organisation and suggestions for flexible classroom use

Ideal For

KS1 maths lessons, morning work, lesson starters, early finishers, mental maths, paired reasoning, independent practice, quick assessment and intervention follow-up.

The challenges include a mixture of fluency, reasoning and problem-solving tasks suitable for selection across Year 1 and Year 2.

Files Included

• Editable 77-slide PowerPoint (.pptx) in 4:3 format
• Matching 77-page landscape PDF (.pdf) in 4:3 format

The PDF is a copy of the PowerPoint presentation. Both versions contain the 60 challenges, teacher guide and answer guidance.

KS1 | Years 1–2 | Ages 5–7