This KS2 maths starters PowerPoint features a variety of maths problems, puzzles and activities. The slides include interactive challenges such as:
- Logical reasoning problems
- Visual challenges
- Word-based maths activities
- Classic puzzles
The maths starters focus on developing critical thinking, problem-solving and computation skills. The PowerPoint includes clues, answers and prompts for creating similar challenges.
Maths starters
These carefully crafted maths starters are self-contained tasks that are designed to captivate attention from the outset.
Each challenge includes a primary task as well as extensions for early finishers, ensuring that all pupils – whether they solve quickly or need more time – remain engaged and focused.
The logical progression of clues and animated slides encourages pupils to adopt a systematic problem-solving approach, fostering a “mathematical brain” mentality.
These maths starters are self-explanatory, reducing preparation time and providing a seamless start to your lesson.
These maths starters reinforce key skills and create a fun, collaborative environment that sets a positive tone for the rest of the lesson.
Example questions
- There are 25 children in a lunch queue, including Jeff. Jeff says: “There are twice as many children in front of me as there are behind me.” How many children are in front of Jeff?
- Laura and Bart both start with the same number. Bart works out 3/4 of the number. Laura works out 1/2 the number. The sum of their answers is 275. What was the number they started with?
- Shade in any 4 squares to create a pattern with at least one line of symmetry. How many different patterns can you find? How do you know if you’ve found all the patterns?
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