Year of the Goat Maths: Chinese New Year 2027 word problems and a times-tables mystery picture

For Year 2–4 (ages 6–9) around Chinese New Year 2027: 84 English-only maths questions in 8 A4 pages, with two Year of the Goat word-problem sheets (Year 2–3 and Year 3–4) and a 64-fact times-tables mystery picture. There are no Chinese characters. Chinese New Year’s Day 2027 is Saturday 6 February 2027. Original classroom items; not copied from a textbook or an exam-board paper.

Answers for every item, including a coloured answer grid; allow about 10–15 minutes per word-problem sheet and 20–30 minutes for the mystery picture.

Who it is for: Year 2–4 (ages 6–9) — a short seasonal lesson, morning work or early finishers around Chinese New Year 2027.

What’s included: an 8-page A4 PDF with cover and teacher notes; two word-problem sheets (G1 Year 2–3 and G2 Year 3–4, 10 questions each); one 8×8 times-tables mystery picture (G3, 64 facts) with a colour key; word-problem answers; a coloured answer grid and a calculation list for the mystery picture. 84 questions in total. Answers included for every item.

Time to teach: about 10–15 minutes for a word-problem sheet; about 20–30 minutes for the mystery picture.

Print A4 at actual size / 100%. Colour print shows the mystery-picture key clearly; an ink-saver patterned edition is also prepared.

How answers were checked: word-problem answers are recomputed from the stored numbers (20/20). Every times-tables expression is re-evaluated (64/64), and the answer-grid colours are checked against the planned picture (64/64).

Wording: this is independent classroom maths practice. It is not a SATs paper.

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