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Ok, so we all have those moments where we can’t get Christmas lyrics out of our head, we’re on the countdown to the last day of term and Christmas just takes over. Along with the summer holidays, Christmas is one of those times in the school calendar year where students seem to be on a wind-down and keeping them focused, engaged and inspired in their maths learning can be somewhat challenging! So, how do you keep them engaged up until that final bell goes on the last day? Using Beyond’s latest batch of Christmas Maths activities for KS3, that’s how! Christmas has come early…

Christmas Transformations 🎄

Inject a little Christmas spirit into your Maths lessons with this collection of Christmas Transformation resources . Rotate, reflect and translate your way to festive cheer, all while honing some core Maths skills at the same time. After successfully rotating, reflecting and translating the of the shapes in the transformations activity, the pupil will be left with a delightful Christmas-themed picture. N’awh…

Christmas Colouring Worksheets 🤶

Oh yes! Nothing says Christmas like a pack of Christmas-themed colour by numbers ! Perfect for adding a dash of snow-sprinkled excitement to your lessons, these resources offer valuable revision of key topics, such as fractions, decimals and percentages, numeracy, times tables and indices, keeping your students engaged mathematically…as well as Christmas-ally…if that’s a word? 🤔

Christmas Algebra 🦌

It wouldn’t be Christmas without some algebra, right? This fun festive puzzle is based on forming and solving simultaneous equations. Set this up as a paired or small group task.

Christmas Triangular Dominoes ☃️

You can’t go wrong with this set of triangular dominoes – especially if you want a little bit more of a hands-on activity. The set is great for a variety of number topics and for all abilities. They are also available in differing sizes, so we’ve got you covered depending on whether you want a plenary or main activity. Set this up as a paired activity, or create a competition between small groups to see who can finish first. All the dominoes will piece back together to create a festive image.

Well there you have it! A selection box of neatly-wrapped Christmas Maths activities for KS3 students… all of which are yours with a simple click!

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Happy Christmas from the Beyond Maths Team.

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Christmas Math Worksheets

Merry Christmas from Math-Drills.Com where our gift to you is a page of Christmas math worksheets! On this page you will find a selection of Christmas math worksheets and regular math worksheets decorated with Christmas ornaments .

Some of the Christmas math worksheets may be fairly large due to the number of images included. We hope you enjoy this page and we wish you the best of the season! Have a very Merry Christmas and enjoy your time with family and friends.

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Various Christmas Math Worksheets

On the first day of Christmas, my true love gave to me...! These counting worksheets visually allow students to see groups of numbers for their skip counting. For example, on the 5 Gold Rings worksheet, there are groups of 5 gold rings and students count by 5s. Some of the numbers are included, so students stay on track.

• Christmas Skip Counting with the 12 Days of Christmas 1 Partridge in a Pear Tree 2 Turtle Doves 3 French Hens 4 Calling Birds 5 Gold Rings 6 Geese a-Laying 7 Swans a-Swimming 8 Maids a-Milking 9 Ladies Dancing 10 Lords a-Leaping 11 Pipers Piping 12 Drummers Drumming
• Christmas Counting Objects in Various Arrangements Counting Christmas Objects in Horizontal Linear Arrangements Counting Christmas Objects in Rotated Linear Arrangements Counting Christmas Objects in Rectangular Arrangements (Maximum Dimension 5 ) Counting Christmas Objects in Rectangular Arrangements (Maximum Dimension 9 ) Counting Christmas Objects in Circular Arrangements Counting up to 10 Christmas Objects in Scattered Arrangements Counting up to 20 Christmas Objects in Scattered Arrangements Counting up to 50 Christmas Objects in Scattered Arrangements Counting Christmas Objects in Various Arrangements ( Easier Version) Counting Christmas Objects in Various Arrangements ( Harder Version)

The Santa's Route activity is similar to the traveling salesman problem which asks for the shortest route through a number of cities. In the case of the traveling salesman problem, one must return to the original city. The Santa's Route activity does not have this final requirement and is technically a minimum-length Hamiltonian path. But the important part is that Santa needs your students to assist! This is an open-ended activity where the goal isn't to get the correct answer, but to go through the process of finding an answer and perhaps improving on it. Students use mathematical and logical thinking when designing their routes. The newer version of Santa's Route is linked to a Google map that students can use for visualizing the activity and drawing a path. They should use the distance chart to calculate their final route as it gives them some adding practice and the final answers will differ slightly from the measured routes on the Google maps. Students should be scored on the process rather than the final result matching the answer key. To get the minimum distance for all the questions might take a really long time and/or some programming skills.

• Santa's Route Data Analysis Santa's Route in Miles Santa's Route in Kilometers

The Christmas word problems only have one theme: Christmas. In order to complete them, students will have to draw on their knowledge of several math topics. Most of the questions are multi-step problems.

• Christmas word problems Christmas Word Problems

Ordering numbers is an important skill and these worksheets will get students in the Christmas spirit while practicing this skill. Each of the worksheets has three activities, two of which are ordering/comparing activities and the third is a small art project to design a Christmas ornament. Make sure students are ordering their numbers in the correct order; different versions of each worksheet ask for greatest to least or least to greatest.

• Christmas Sorting/Ordering Worksheets Sorting/Ordering Numbers 0 to 10 on a Christmas Tree Sorting/Ordering Numbers 1 to 50 on a Christmas Tree Sorting/Ordering Numbers 10 to 99 on a Christmas Tree Sorting/Ordering Numbers 100 to 999 on a Christmas Tree Sorting/Ordering Numbers 1000 to 9999 on a Christmas Tree

There are three different attributes to watch in the picture patterns. The first is "shape" which is really just different Christmas objects. Students determine what comes next by figuring out the pattern of shapes. The second attribute is size; in this case either small or large. The third attribute is rotation which could be any of four rotations: 0, 90, 180, or 270 degree rotations (aka, up, right, down, left). For the worksheets with combined attributes, have students figure out the pattern of one attribute at a time.

• Christmas Picture Patterns Christmas Picture Patterns with Shape Attribute Only Christmas Picture Patterns with Size Attribute Only Christmas Picture Patterns with Rotation Attribute Only Christmas Picture Patterns with Shape and Size Attributes Christmas Picture Patterns with Shape and Rotation Attributes Christmas Picture Patterns with Size and Rotation Attributes Christmas Picture Patterns with Shape, Size and Rotation Attributes One-Attribute (Shape) Patterns Version 1 (OLD) One-Attribute (Shape) Patterns Version 2 (OLD)

A small selection of number patterns worksheets on Christmas themes. The Elves Number Patterns worksheet is a more standard type of patterning worksheet where students identify and continue a pattern. The Reindeer Patterns is a bit more challenging because students look for the mistakes in number patterns and fix them.

• Christmas Number Patterns Elf Toy Inventory Number Patterns ( Intervals to 9 ) Elf Toy Inventory Number Patterns ( Intervals to 99 ) Elf Toy Inventory Number Patterns ( Intervals to 999 ) Reindeer Patterns

This section includes Christmas Cartesian Art activities also known as coordinate geometry activities. Each activity in this section includes a solution page, a co-ordinates page and a blank grid. The latter two, of course, are what students will need to complete the activity.

• Christmas Cartesian Art Christmas Cartesian Art Santa (Four Quadrants) Christmas Cartesian Art Nativity (Four Quadrants) Christmas Cartesian Art Tree (One Quadrant) Christmas Cartesian Art Snowflake (One Quadrant) Christmas Cartesian Art Snowflake 2 (Four Quadrants) Christmas Cartesian Art Holly (Two Quadrants) OLD Christmas Coordinate Geometry Activity

A variety of graph papers with various themes. Graph paper can be used to calculate the area of rectangles or other shapes; design a room; make a map; line up multi-digit addition questions; learn about place value; make a bar or broken line chart; and much more.

• Christmas Graph Paper (U.S.) Christmas Santa 1/2 Inch Graph Paper Christmas Reindeer 3/8 Inch Graph Paper Christmas Presents 5 Lines per Inch Graph Paper
• Christmas Graph Paper (Metric) Christmas Holly 1 cm Graph Paper Merry Christmas 2.5 cm / 0.5 cm Graph Paper Christmas Nativity 2.5 cm / 0.5 cm Graph Paper

Two simple fraction skills are reviewed in these Christmas math worksheets to give students something fairly easy on the road to Christmas vacation.

• Christmas Fractions Worksheets Open the Present Equivalent Fractions Shake the Present Simplified Fractions

Christmas Arithmetic

Ebenezer Scrooge was so stingy that Bob Cratchit had to watch how much ink he used. As he was quite clever, Bob wrote each question so not only could he save some ink, but any other clever person could still figure out which digits went where. As we all know, Scrooge stopped being a miser, so he bought some ink, gave Cratchit the day off and is now going to fill in all the missing digits in the accounting ledgers. Can your students help Scrooge fill in the missing digits?

• Ebenezer Scrooge's Missing Digits Worksheets (Addition and Subtraction) Scrooge's Missing Digits Addition (Easier) ✎ Scrooge's Missing Digits Addition (Harder) ✎ Scrooge's Missing Digits Subtraction (Easier) ✎ Scrooge's Missing Digits Subtraction (Harder) ✎ Scrooge's Missing Digits Addition and Subtraction Mixed (Easier) ✎ Scrooge's Missing Digits Addition and Subtraction Mixed (Harder) ✎
• Ebenezer Scrooge's Missing Digits Worksheets (Multiplication and Division) Scrooge's Missing Digits Multiplication (Easier) ✎ Scrooge's Missing Digits Multiplication (Harder) ✎ Scrooge's Missing Digits Division (Easier) ✎ Scrooge's Missing Digits Division (Harder) ✎ Scrooge's Missing Digits Multiplication and Division Mixed (Easier) ✎ Scrooge's Missing Digits Multiplication and Division Mixed (Harder) ✎
• Ebenezer Scrooge's Missing Digits Worksheets (All Operations) Scrooge's Missing Digits All Operations Mixed (Easier) ✎ Scrooge's Missing Digits All Operations Mixed (Harder) ✎

The "What's in the Gift?" worksheets are really pre-algebra, but students who are able to do each operation should be able to figure out the missing terms. The "What's in the Gift?" multiplication worksheets challenge students to figure out what number is missing in each multiplication question. There are a variety of levels to appeal to students who have grasped different parts of the multiplication tables. The What's in the Gift division worksheets encourage students to apply their multiplication facts to division and algebraic situations. Choose a level that is appropriate for your student. These worksheets should ideally be done mentally as review or practice.

• What's in the Gift Addition What's in the Gift? Addition (Sums to 18) What's in the Gift? Addition (Sums to 50) What's in the Gift? Addition (Sums to 98) What's in the Gift? Addition (Sums to 198) What's in the Gift? Addition (Sums to 1998)
• What's in the Gift Subtraction What's in the Gift? Subtraction (Differences to 9) What's in the Gift? Subtraction (Differences to 25) What's in the Gift? Subtraction (Differences to 49) What's in the Gift? Subtraction (Differences to 99) What's in the Gift? Subtraction (Differences to 999)
• What's in the Gift Multiplication What's in the Gift? Multiplication (Products to 49) What's in the Gift? Multiplication (Products to 64) What's in the Gift? Multiplication (Products to 81) What's in the Gift? Multiplication (Products to 100) What's in the Gift? Multiplication (Products to 144) What's in the Gift? Multiplication (Products to 400)
• What's in the Gift Division What's in the Gift? Division (Dividends to 49) What's in the Gift? Division (Dividends to 64) What's in the Gift? Division (Dividends to 81) What's in the Gift? Division (Dividends to 100) What's in the Gift? Division (Dividends to 144) What's in the Gift? Division (Dividends to 400)
• Christmas Secret Message Activities Christmas Holly Secret Message Addition with Addends from 1 to 25 Christmas Tree Secret Message Two-Digit Addition Christmas Bells Secret Message Three-Digit Addition Christmas Toys Secret Message Single-Digit Multiplication
• The Christmas Shoppe Activity The Christmas Shoppe (Numbers under $100) The Christmas Shoppe (Numbers under $1000)

The "Santa's List Addition" worksheets have a challenging bonus on them which requires adding long columns of numbers. Challenge your students to complete addition in their head, say using a left-to-right addition algorithm, instead of with paper and pencil. For more proficient students, make mental addition a game by having speed competitions. The Christmas order of operations worksheets should be easy enough that students can do them in their head.

• Santa's List Addition Santa's List Addition (Single-Digit) Santa's List Addition (Two-Digit) Santa's List Addition (Three-Digit) Santa's List Addition (Four-Digit)
• Christmas Order of Operations Christmas Order of Operations with Three Steps Christmas Order of Operations with Four Steps
• Miscellaneous Christmas Math Worksheets Christmas Spirit Secret Message Two-Digit by One-Digit Multiplication Kindergarten Addition Multiplication Two-Digit by Two-Digit (Vertical; 49 per page) Christmas Cards Christmas Missing Digits (Mischievous Elves) Santa's Competition

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Christmas Math Activities

Welcome to the Math Salamanders Christmas Math Activities. Here you will find a wide range of free printable Christmas Math sheets, Christmas Math games and Christmas math challenges.

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Here you will find a range of Christmas Math Activities from 1st grade and upwards.

There sheets are grouped by type and start off easier to harder. The Math skills involved include adding and subtracting.

We have a wide selection of different Christmas math activities, including:

• Christmas Nets
• Block Coordinates
• Line Coordinates
• Addition and Subtraction

Printable Christmas Crafts

We have created a few Christmas nets for craft activities around Christmas time.

It is best if you can print them out on card as they are a bit fiddly to do on paper.

Great for developing cutting and sticking skills and a fun activitiy to do around Christmas time.

• Printable Christmas Crafts (nets)

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Christmas Block Coordinates

Here are some block coordinate sheets with a Christmas theme. The answer sheets are shown as thumbnails.

The sheets use an alphanumerical coordinate grid where the horizontal axis is a letter and the vertical axis a number.

Each coordinate needs to be identified and then shaded the correct color.

• Christmas Block Coordinates Sheet 1
• Sheet 1 Answers
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• Christmas Block Coordinates Sheet 2
• Sheet 2 Answers
• Christmas Block Coordinates Sheet 3
• Sheet 3 Answers
• Christmas Block Coordinates Sheet 4
• Sheet 4 Answers
• Christmas Block Coordinates Sheet 5
• Sheet 5 Answers
• Christmas Block Coordinates Sheet 6
• Sheet 6 Answers
• Christmas Block Coordinates Sheet 7

Christmas Line Coordinates

Here are some line coordinate sheets with a Christmas theme. The answer sheets are shown as thumbnails.

The first set of sheets - Find the Coordinates is easier.

The second set of sheets - Joining and Plotting Coordinates is harder.

Find the Christmas Coordinates

These sheets involve writing down the coordinates of different Christmas themed pictures on the grid.

There is also a challenge to find Santa's Secret Grotto using the clues on the sheet provided.

• Find the Christmas Coordinates 1
• Find the Christmas Coordinates 2

Find the Christmas Coordinates Walkthrough Video

This short video walkthrough shows our Find the Christmas Coordinates Sheet 1 being solved and has been produced by the West Explains Best math channel.

If you would like some support in solving the problems on these sheets, please check out the video below!

Christmas Line Coordinate Sheets

These sheets involve plotting and then joining sets of coordinates together.

The shapes must then be shaded in to create a Christmas picture.

These sheets are more challenging than the block coordinate sheets, and also the finding coordinate sheets.

• Christmas Line Coordinates Sheet 1
• Christmas Line Coordinates Sheet 2
• Christmas Line Coordinates Sheet 3
• Christmas Line Coordinates Sheet 4

Christmas Line Coordinates Walkthrough Video

This short video walkthrough shows our Christmas Line Coordinates Sheet 4 being solved and has been produced by the West Explains Best math channel.

Christmas Dot to Dot Worksheets

We also have several dot-to-dot worksheets with a Christmas theme.

The sheets can also be used as color-in sheets as well as dot to dot sheets.

The sheets have been put in order from smallest number of dots to the largest.

• Christmas dot-to-dot up to 15
• Dot to Dot Winter 1 (up to 20)
• Christmas Dot to Dot 1 (up to 20)
• Christmas Dot to Dot 2 (up to 22)
• Dot to Dot Winter 2 (up to 31)
• Christmas dot-to-dot up to 34
• Dot to Dot Winter 4 (up to 42)
• Christmas Dot to Dot 3 (up to 46)

Kindergarten Christmas Counting Activity

These kindergarten counting worksheets all have a Christmas theme.

They cover counting up to 12, and also matching and counting the correct objects.

Each sheet is available as a color version or as a coloring sheet in black and white.

• Kindergarten Christmas Counting 1
• b/w version
• Kindergarten Christmas Counting 2
• Kindergarten Christmas Counting 3
• Kindergarten Christmas Counting 4

Christmas Tree Addition and Subtraction

• Addition and Subtraction 1
• Addition and Subtraction 2
• Addition and Subtraction 3
• Addition and Subtraction 4
• Addition and Subtraction 5

Christmas Tree Activities Templates

Here you will find two template sheets for the Christmas math activities featured on this page. You can print these sheets and tailor them to suit your child's needs.

• Christmas Trees Challenge blank
• Christmas Tree Number Challenge blank

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Christmas Math Worksheets & Challenges

Here is our selection of Christmas Math Challenges from 1st grade and upwards.

There are a range of challenges including code breaking, word problems, and word finding Christmas Math Challenges.

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• Christmas Maths Worksheets (Easy)
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Free Christmas Worksheets - Color in

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Penguin Dot to Dot

Check out our dot to dot worksheets with a penguin theme.

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Winter Dot to Dot

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45 christmas maths questions.

Wonderful set of questions aimed at E3-L1 (with some questions slightly lower/higher). There is a good mix of straightforward maths and light-hearted Christmas problem solving – which also makes this ideal for underpinning Functional Maths. Topics include whole numbers, fractions, data (tallies, averages), money and measures.

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My students really enjoyed this activity. However, we did find a few problems. The tally chart, question 33 is inaccurate. Also, having completed other activities involving the 12 days of Christmas, my students rightly noted that the total number of gifts is accumulative, so the total number is 364. It was good fun answering questions 39 and 40 with this new number. Nevertheless, we had a great time using this. Thank you Carrie.

Whoops - all my fault!

Many thanks for your comments. I looked up Carrie’s original contribution and must confess that any mistakes in the answer sheet are mine. I created the answer sheet – not Carrie.

Regarding the 12 days of Christmas question the answer is how I interpreted it (i.e. not cumulative) but I agree that this does not then really make sense for the follow on questions 39 and 40.

As an aside if you want a cumulative 12 days of Christmas resource try Tony Jenkin’s 12 Days of Christmas (the answers are presented in a lovely clear tabular format). Heather Harrop also has a twist on this theme in her 12 Days of Christmas starter .

I’ll get a corrected answer sheet on site before next Christmas! In the meantime I’ll send you an editable Word version so you can make your own corrections.

Thanks again and have a lovely Christmas

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Long-form conversations about teaching and learning with craig barton, maths christmas activities and resources.

With the last week of term finally upon us, I have collected together some of my favourite maths Christmas resources and activities from the TES Maths website. These are all freely available to download by registering on the website.

I hope you enjoy them, and you make it to the end of term in one piece!

1. The  Maths Christmas Activities booklet is crammed full of festive fun

2.  The “Who killed Santa?” mystery is a TES festive classic!

3.   GCSE Maths Christmas puzzles will keep your students thinking

4.  Try a bit of Christmas Countdown to keep the brain ticking over

5.   “Who Kidnapped Santa?” – Can you solve this maths mystery?

6.  There are bundles of quality in these maths Christmas worksheets

7.  Christmas and Tarsia – the perfect combination! 🙂

8. A Maths themed Christmas Quiz lesson

9. I have put together 11 Just for Fun Quiz rounds, including classics such as Xmas Song Lyrics, on my Diagnostic Questions website here

10. The wonderful Colleen Young has her own 2014 Maths Christmas Collection available here

Finally, here is my choice for the TES Maths Christmas Activity of the Year 2014:

You can download this lovely resource here

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Christmas word problems

Add some festive fun to your maths lessons with these Christmas word problems. Featuring 12 Christmas-themed maths questions, students can practise using their problem-solving skills to answer questions involving fractions, percentages, ratios and more.

This activity is available as a printable worksheet that can be completed independently or a PowerPoint that can be used for a whole class quiz.

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For more festive resources for KS3, explore our Christmas maths collection. If you're looking for KS2 resources, try our KS2 Christmas collection.

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• There are 24 pockets in an advent calendar and 72 chocolates to put into them. How many chocolates should go in each pocket?    
• There are 125 elves making toys in Santa’s workshop. 25 of the elves are making wooden toys. What percentage of the elves are making other types of toys?
• A Christmas tree is decorated with 18 red baubles, 15 green baubles and 24 gold baubles. What is the ratio of red to green to gold baubles?  

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Year 3 Christmas Maths / all topics - 3 levels

Subject: Mathematics

Age range: 7-11

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20 November 2023

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These Christmas themed reasoning problems for Year 3 cover all topics in the curriculum. There are 3 differentiated levels. The higher and intermediate levels each contain 33 Christmas problems and the lower level has 34.

The Super Super Challenge (Higher level) is based on the Year 3 curriculum. The Super Challenge (Intermediate level) is based on the Year 2 and Year 3 curriculum. The Challenge (Lower level) is based on the Year 2 curriculum.

Answers are included. Colour and Black & White versions of each booklet are also included.

PDF file format. All of the documents are in the zip file.

No further preparation needed.

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