Reception Maths worksheets
Free worksheets: Weights and measurements, EYFS, Reception
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Using non-standard measures: length
Let's get measuring. Look at your hand. Stretch it out as big as it can go. The distance from your thumb to your little finger is called your hand span. Go around your house finding things that are smaller and things that are larger than your hand span. Write them in these circles.
Use string to measure
This practical and fun activity will enable your child to measure the snakes with string and compare the lengths using mathematical language.
Measurement: comparing lengths
Are you the tallest person in your family or the shortest? Are the items in your home taller or shorter than you? Let's do some measuring to find out!
Doubling and halving numbers 1-10 game
This Reception numbers and counting game is designed to help your child to find doubles and halves of numbers and quantities up to 10. It will also help your child to recognise the relationship between doubling and halving.
Dinosaur races: Ordinal Numbers Game
A game designed to to introduce children to ordinal numbers, which tell us an item’s position in a list (for example, first, second or third).
Comparing numbers of coins
Help your child practise comparing quantities and reinforce the language of more and less or fewer with this penny-counting worksheet.
Starting school scrapbook
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Understanding doubling
When each of these caterpillars turns into a butterfly the number of spots it has doubles. Can you match up these caterpillars with their butterflies?
Reception problem-solving
Four children have put some of their marbles into a dish. They each have different-coloured marbles. Using these clues, can you work out who has which colour marbles?
Number recognition and counting to 10
These five children each have a bag of marbles but the bags have been muddled up. Can you help them to find the right bags?
Marble Muddle: addition and subtraction board game
This game is designed to support accurate counting skills, reinforce the idea of “more than” and “less than” and develop an understanding of the maths symbols + and -.
Identifying patterns
Can you help Captain Clumsy cross the river to get to her treasure? Her map tells her she can only cross on the stones that create a repeating pattern. Can you spot the path she needs to take and colour the last two stones the right colour?
Five in a row: numbers 7-12
Help your child to count the spots accurately and then find the correct number on the game board.
Five in a row: numbers 1-6
This game is designed to support early number recognition and counting skills. Help your child to count the spots accurately and then find the correct number on the game board.
Counting to 10 practice
These children want to put their marbles in order, starting with the person who has the smallest number and ending with the person who has the most marbles.
3D shape Sudoku
Each column and row in the orange square must contain one of each 3D shape – a cylinder, a sphere, a cube and a cone. Cut out the spare shapes on the next page and practise different combinations to see if you can solve the puzzle.
The vocabulary of weight
Mr Elephant wants to collect the heavier objects and his friend Miss Mouse wants to collect the lighter objects. Can you help them?
Measurement: comparing lengths
Are you the tallest person in your family or the shortest? Are the items in your home taller or shorter than you? Let's do some measuring to find out!
Hand measurements
Draw around your hand on the paper or card and cut it out. Use your cut-out hand to measure things around your house, like a toy, a cupboard door, your bed. Now ask a grown-up to draw around their hand and cut it out. Measure your objects again, using your grown-up’s hand instead of yours. What do you notice?
Sequencing numbers 1 to 10
Can you add in the missing numbers on these number ladders?
Counting and sticking numbers 1 to 5
Can you cut out the right numbers of fish and stick them on to each pond?