When you are young, Christmas is a magical time, especially when you are at school with Christmas parties, Christmas dinners, Christmas jumper days, Christmas presents, Christmas cards, and even maths joins in and becomes Christmassy!
When I was younger, I was given the part of Sheep 2 and I still remember my lines: baaa, baaa, baa!
Brie-Anna de Mouse, star of Mouse in the Stable ( as Sheep 2) and Maths with a Mouse
The following activities (usually) increase in challenge as you scroll down. See if you can find the perfect level for use - the sweet marshmallow spot!
How about using your recall of mulitplication facts to create a Christmousey picture courtesy of multiplication.com! Each question answered correctly gives you another aspect of the image!
This is a great variation of a game many of you might already know, but in Countdown to Christmas from Transum, you will have to battle it out with Santa to open the door to Christmas Day!
Click my Christmouse jumper for a silly surprise!
Or click on my Christmousey jumper for an even sillier surprise!
In Snow Patrol, you will be on the hunt for presents. I had expected a game called Snow Patrol to involve Chasing Cars but that might have been a little less festive!
Transum's Christmas Lights is a great number puzzle game with several increasingly challenging levels to enjoy!
Click me! Click me!
My reindeer jumper is so clickable!
Thanks to matheasily.com, you can test your skills in these great puzzles. With three different levels to attempt, there is something for all mousematicians.
Want to find some Christmousey images - better get plotting those co-ordinates!
Once again, Transum has created another great puzzle with lots of levels to everyone can have a go! It's time to arrange the Christmas Ornaments.
Next, if you have played Swipe the Pin (link available in Puzzle Time!), you will know exactly what to do in Santa Rescue from cbc.ca to make sure that he can get all of presents!
Chances are that it is a terrible joke but that's what a Cracker Joke is meant to be!
Problem-solving skills -ready! Penguins to pack snowmen - ready! Time to use your logic skills and help Doctor Acorn! If you enjoy this, you would be likely to enjoy the great puzzles in Puzzle Time!
Putting lights on the Christmas tree needs to be done with precision and order - there must be a pattern or symmetry...or should I say symmetree! Pascal's Christmas Tree does all of this and even has flashing lights!
Welcome to the mathsbot.com classic puzzle Simultaneous Grids. There are lots of ways to vary this task to make it easier or, as I often enjoy, to make it much, much trickier!
Santa's Sleigh needs to be in the correct place, or, in the case of this puzzle from mathgametime.com, the Santas need their sleighs! They do, however, need to be carefully arranged!
TOP TIP: When starting the puzzle, consider where sleighs cannot go and where they will not be needed - fill this places with crisp, white snow.
Last, but not least, is The 12 Ways of Christmas, which involves finding as many ways to create 12 as you possibly can. The game tracks your ideas which is incredibly helpful!
Click on the reindeers on my jumper (are they kissing?)for another silly surprise!
Click on the best Christmouse jumper - it's sleigh! Ho! Ho! Ho!
CHRISTMOUSE TIME! (with a little less maths)
Although maths games are a key part of how I like to learn maths, sometimes there are great games that might seem to have less maths than others. I still like to play them so I have added a few of my Chridtmousey favourites below.
Let's delivery those presents. As the levels progress, you will need to...oh...seems that this will involve quite a bit of maths as you will need to use your problem solving skills when planning how to solve the challenges in Santa Delivery from plays.org
Run, Santa, Run! Run, run as fast as you can, you can't catch me, I am Santa Claus, man!
I used to love playing this game when I was even younger. Hope you enjoy Santa Solitaire, a festive version of the classic card game, Solitaire, which was very popular in the 1990's as it was available to play on most home computers! Retro! Now that I recall it, there is actually quite a lot of maths involved in this game!
If you have never played Solitaire before, check out the help section before you begin.
Guess what? This has more maths than I first realised. Make sure you are using a wide range of your problem solving skills if you want to keep Santa safe and complete Santa's Delivery. The world needs you!
Slide to the left. Slide to the right!
Not sure how helpful these instructions will be but I'm sure you can work out what transformations to carry out to help in Santa's Quest...quest...quest...
