This is a whole school maths ‘murder’ mystery based around the maths objectives in each year group. It encourages teamwork, critical thinking, reasoning and problem solving. It is titled ‘Who ate the Gingerbread Man?’ to make it appropriate for all ages. There are a variety of clues for Reception through to Year 6. These are all independent and do not require other year groups to take part, the amount of discussions it created at our school makes it well worth getting everyone involved. We started this by creating a police crime scene on the playground with the outline of the gingerbread man in the middle - this was ready for when the children were arriving at school - the buzz amongst the children was electric! All of the suspects were a mixture of staff around the school and even some of the Year Sixes that we knew would play along (You will need to put the names of your staff in there to make it engaging and more applicable to your school.) We ended the morning with getting a police officer in to ‘arrest’ the suspect that they identified as the culprit, however this clearly isn’t necessary - it just topped off the whole event! I hope you get as much from it as we did - thanks for looking!

A mixture of 27 sheets of times tables that encourage Intelligent Practice. I have used these for both homework and for discussions about patterns in class. Having struggled for so long to find something to engage my class with, this is something that has started to really impact their understanding and application of times tables.

Perfect for World Maths Day! Murder Mystery - Who unravelled the Mummy? A maths investigation into who saved the school from a Mummy! This can either be used as a whole school activity or as an individual year group, they can work independent of one another! Children will need to think critically and within a team to answer a series of clues and elimate suspects from their list. Good luck!