Festive Christmas Maths Worksheets
Cracker Dominoes (A)
Year groups: 1

Cracker Dominoes (B)
Year groups: 1

Elf and Gingerbread Man
Year groups: 1, 2

Cracker Dominoes (C)
Year groups: 2

Christmas Code Breaker (A)
Year groups: 3, 4

Christmas Colouring - Equivalent Fractions
Year groups: 6, 7, 8

Christmas Reflections
Year groups: 6, 7, 8

Drawing Snowflakes
Year groups: 6, 7, 8

Christmas Code Breaker (B)
Year groups: 7, 8, 9

Christmas Relay
Year groups: 8, 9, 10

Christmas Transformations
Year groups: 8, 9, 10

FESTIVE CHRISTMAS MATHS!
December classrooms have a special feel, don't they? There's maths hiding in all the Christmas excitement if you look closely. Students work out advent calendar days, calculate gift money, and figure out wrapping paper sizes. Christmas trees are just triangles really, whilst snowflakes show brilliant symmetry patterns. Fairy lights make sequences, baubles are great for counting, and Christmas cake recipes involve proper fractions. Wrapping presents needs area work, and Christmas shopping means dealing with percentages. Cazoom Maths Christmas Worksheets tap into this festive mood, showing students that maths isn't just textbook stuff – it's actually part of the holidays they enjoy.
Christmas Worksheet Pack: The Maths Behind Festive Celebrations
December 25th has some nice mathematical bits to it. The date's quite neat – 25 is a perfect square (5 × 5), and being the 12th month gives us 12 × 25 = 300. Christmas trees work well for geometry lessons, showing triangular shapes and symmetry that students can actually draw and reflect.
Advent calendars run for 24 days, and 24 has tons of factors – 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 8, 12, 24. That's handy for division work. The "12 Days of Christmas" song adds up to 364 gifts altogether, which is nearly a whole year! Snowflakes are mathematically perfect with their six-way symmetry, making them brilliant for transformation work.
Festive Statistics: Christmas Numbers That Count
Christmas numbers are quite useful for maths lessons. UK families typically spend around £700 on Christmas presents, which works well for budgeting exercises and percentage problems. About 8 million real Christmas trees get sold each year – good for comparing ratios with artificial trees.
Christmas cards are big business too – roughly 1 billion sent annually across the UK. With 27 million households, that works out to about 37 cards each. Christmas dinner timing involves proper calculations: a 5kg turkey needs about 20 minutes per 500g, so that's 200 minutes total. These everyday Christmas numbers fit nicely into fraction work, data exercises, and problem solving, showing students how maths actually connects to what they're doing at home.