Start every maths lesson with a quick, engaging warm-up!

Looking for a quick daily maths warm-up routine? These 50 Stage 1 maths slides provide 10 weeks of engaging mental maths activities and number talks.

These Stage 1 Daily Maths Warm Ups are designed to build number sense, mental maths strategies and mathematical discussion in just 5–10 minutes each day.

Simply display one slide each day and guide students through four short activities that encourage thinking, discussion and problem solving.

Perfect for Year 1 and Year 2 classrooms, these slides provide 10 weeks of daily maths warm-ups with no preparation required.

What’s Included

• 50 ready-to-use PowerPoint slides

• 10 weeks of daily maths warm-ups

• Each slide includes four short activities:

• Quick Count
• Mental Maths
• Pattern
• Maths Talk

Each warm-up slide supports whole-class discussion and helps students develop confidence with numbers.

Skills Covered

These maths warm-ups help students practise and review:

• counting forwards and backwards

• skip counting (2s, 5s, 10s)

• mental addition and subtraction

• number patterns

• place value

• number comparison

• mathematical reasoning

• explaining thinking and strategies

Why Teachers Love These Slides

✔ No prep – just open and teach

✔ Perfect for morning maths warm ups

✔ Encourages mathematical talk and reasoning

✔ Builds strong number sense

✔ Great for interactive whiteboards

Use these slides to start your maths lesson, as a morning routine, or as a quick review activity.

How to Use

Display one slide each day and work through the four prompts as a class.

Students can answer verbally, explain their thinking and discuss strategies with a partner or on a whiteboard.

Warm-ups typically take 5–10 minutes and are a great way to get students thinking mathematically before the main lesson.

File Type

This resource includes PowerPoint slides only.

No worksheets or additional materials are included.

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