Year 5 & Year 6

Task 2: Let us investigate our Cereal

This tasks provides junior mathematicians with an opportunity to investigate their breakfast cereal. Breakfast is the most important meal of the day. A variety of breakfast cereals are enjoyed every day by children all over the countries however not every breakfast bowl is as healthy as it seems. While investigating cereal, students will be revising various Mathematics concepts for example money and mass (weight).

Maths with SuperM

This task provides junior mathematicians with an opportunity to engage in different routine and non-routine questions about SuperM, the special dinosaur. Questions tackle different topics like: capacity, time, money, number properties and operations, number puzzles and more.

Task 5: Home Maths Scavenger Hunt

This task provides junior mathematicians with an opportunity to see and do Maths at Home. The students are asked to walk around the house and find objects and/or examples according to the instructions on the sheet. They are encouraged to take photos of the objects or list them by their names/numbers and together with any working if needed.

Task 56: Tangrams – Part 1

Tangram is a Chinese Puzzle. It consists of 7 flat shapes and the challenge is to form specific forms using all the 7 shapes.
This task (Tangrams Part 1) introduces junior mathematicians to this ancient puzzle and allows them to make their own out of cardboard. This task is also an opportunity to explore the structure of the puzzle itself.

Task 65: Tourist for a Day

Have you ever asked or given directions to anyone? This task gives you the opportunity to practise the skill of reading a map and give directions. It also helps you build spatial reasoning skills such as knowing how to estimate distances on a scale. You will be doing all this in our beautiful capital city, Valletta.

Task 74: Up the Stairs

Maths logic puzzles and riddles rack your brains but they are also fun and you feel even more satisfied when you find the strategy to solve it. This task is one of those challenges that encourage problem-solving and logical thinking even more since it has a number of different answers.

Task 75: Apollo 11 Moon Landing

It was 1969 and moon fever was everywhere. It is estimated that one-sixth of the world population of that time was in front a black and white or coloured T.V. Not every household had a TV back then, so viewers flocked to neighbours, friends’ houses or public spaces that were to view the biggest event of the 20th century. This task gives you the opportunity to find out the sequence of events of Apollo 11 from beginning till the end. ‘That’s one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind