LGfL have a range of resources that can complement your teaching of Number Day or why not use some of them to turn it into a Number week.
j2e Tool suite - has a range of maths tools that can be used in class.
Why not get your students to use the maths games in j2blast, you could use Tt Blast to see who can complete the most games and earn the most points on that day, or if they are in Year 2 or Year 6 you could get them to use Sats blast to see who can get the best score within the time limit.
Using the animate tool in JIT, children could make an animation of their favourite numbers or facts about numbers narrating their animations and then turning them in a GIF
Why not Test KS2 knowledge with NEW quizzes – 60+ available!
Have fun testing children’s knowledge with Busy Things’ NEW quizzes – perfect as a front of class resource or for children to independently try to beat their previous scores! Teachers - you can assign quizzes too, giving great visibility of how children are progressing.
Miner Birds - Addition and Subtraction The popular Miner Birds suite has been expanded to include NEW Miner Birds - Addition and Subtraction with a wide variety of calculations customisable for children between the ages of 5 and 11. As with all the Miner Birds games, the aim is to be the first to collect twenty worms by correctly answering maths questions – so not only will children have fun practising their maths skills, they must also employ strategy and logical thinking to succeed!
Splash Dash
Help children to improve their addition and subtraction skills with NEW Splash Dash; starting with simple number sentences and progressing right up to 5 column addition and subtraction, the game can be played with children between the ages of 5 and 11.
Maths at home Support for busy parents - is great to site share with parents on this day to show them different ways that they can support their children at home, as well as how a lot of mathematical concepts are taught in school. The site includes short videos no longer than 3 minutes as well as activity sheets that can be used at home and covers Years 1-6
Looking to link maths to real world problems then our Maths in the real world is perfect for this especially for UKS2 or LKS3, with curriculum mapping documents available for KS2 and KS3. Lesson plans and resources are also included.
The real-world topics covered in the resource are:
Maths Raps - why not use the day to do a spot of rapping in class, these raps from BEAM have a range of raps related to Number that can be used, or why not get the children to create their own maths raps, use Audio Network as a backing track and upload your raps into Video Central HD to share with the wider community.
BBC Bitesize have a wide selection of videos for both KS1 and KS2 to use on Number day including learner guides and activities.
NRICH also have a range of games and activities for EYFS to Secondary that would be great to use on Number Day or to set as challenges for at home or through the school
Whatever you are doing to celebrate Number day 2018 - why not share them on our twitter feed or our Facebook page #NumberDay