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Shopping Trolley Match-Up Activity

PDF | 3 pages|Grades: F - Reception

A fun activity to be used to reinforce a variety of mathematical concepts.

This teaching resource includes an aerial view of an empty shopping trolley and a collection of cards depicting groceries. The shopping trolley has a grid marked on it with various ‘teen’ numbers and 2D shapes placed in the grid.

This resource is a barrier game that is played in pairs, with the players separated by a barrier. There is a speaker and a listener. Prior to beginning the game, the speaker ‘goes shopping’, choosing grocery cards and placing them in their trolley on the grid squares. The listener does not see the speaker’s trolley. During the game, the speaker gives directions to the listener about which groceries to choose and where to place them on the grid. The listener must listen carefully and place the groceries correctly on their shopping trolley grid.

Use this resource as the ideal introduction to using simple grid maps to show position while reinforcing counting skills.

National Curriculum

National Curriculum Curriculum alignment

Communication, language and literacy
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Early Years Foundation Stage
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English
English has a pre-eminent place in education and in society. A high-quality education in English will teach pupils to speak and write fluently so that they can communicate their ideas and emotions to others and through their reading and listening, ot...
In Key Stage 1 (KS1)
Geometry
In Key Stage 1 (KS1)Mathematics
Key Stage 1 (KS1)
Key Stage 1 (KS1) covers students in Year 1 and Year 2.
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Mathematics
In Early Years Foundation Stage
Mathematics
The principal focus of mathematics teaching in key stage 1 is to ensure that pupils develop confidence and mental fluency with whole numbers, counting and place value. This should involve working with numerals, words and the four operations, includin...
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Number
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Number and place value
In Key Stage 1 (KS1)Mathematics Number
Numbers
Children count reliably with numbers from 1 to 20, place them in order and say which number is one more or one less than a given number. Using quantities and objects, they add and subtract two single-digit numbers and count on or back to find t...
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Shape, space and measures
Children use everyday language to talk about size, weight, capacity, position, distance, time and money to compare quantities and objects and to solve problems. They recognise, create and describe patterns. They explore characteristics of every...
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Spoken language
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