Suggestions for use: • What do you see in this picture?
• Does anyone know any story they could tell about a gingerbread man?
• What do you need to make gingerbread men?
• Who thinks gingerbread men are good to eat?
• Which ingredients are good/not good for people to eat?
• Which part of the gingerbread man would you eat first?
• What are the gingerbread man’s eyes made of?
• What are his feet made of?
• Are there other things you could have made the feet with?
• How many legs/eyes/arms/buttons does each gingerbread man have?
• How many gingerbread men are in the first row?
• How many gingerbread men in the poster altogether? How did you work this out?
• What colour are the eyes of the gingerbread men?
• What colour buttons can you see?
• How many smarties were needed to give the two buttons to each gingerbread man?
• Can you think of questions about the picture to ask other groups (question starters could include: How many…, how many more…which colour etc.)?

Suggestions for use: • What do you see in this picture?
• Does anyone know any story they could tell about what they see?
• How many different colours can you see?
• What colours do you see?
• What does this colour combination remind you
of e.g. County colour?
• What shapes do you see?
• What is that shape called?
• How many blue blocks?
• How many red blocks?
• How many yellow blocks?
• What shape do the yellow and blue blocks joined together make?
• If you added more squares, what would you add to keep the pattern?
• Where would you put any new squares you might add to the picture?
• What game could you play using these shapes?
• What does this picture remind you of?
• How would the picture have to change to play hopscotch?
• What way would you number the squares to play hopscotch?
• How do you play this game?
• How many hops do you need to get to the top?
• If I was on the first blue square how many steps would I take to get to........?
• If you hop up to the top and back again – how many hops altogether?
• Can you find a line of symmetry in this picture?
• Trace the steps you would take on your own hopscotch diagram.
• Why do the shapes at the top of the picture appear narrower than the bottom?
• Can you think up a maths problem based on this picture for the other groups?

Suggestions for use: • What does this picture remind you of?
• Can anyone make up a story about what this picture shows?
• Where might you find this kind of pattern?
• Put on “Maths Eyes”, what do you see now?
• What shapes can you see?
• What is the smallest shape in the picture?
• Can you find a shape that is just one colour only?
• Can you see shapes with more than 2 colours?
• What squares can you see made up of different colours?
• Where else might you find this shape?
• Choose a square and describe the pattern.
• What pattern is in the squares?
• Can you use maths words to describe what you see? (Teacher or tutor could record all the maths worlds words used)

Suggested Related activities
• Replicate the pattern using different colours.
• Describe the pattern in the white and red square.
• How many different size white triangles can you see?
• Give a group a logic block to make the pattern.
• Investigate what shapes match together.
• Could a circle shape fit in the pattern?

Suggestions for use: • What can you see in the picture?
• How are they the same?
• Why do they belong together?
• How are they different?
• Why does this one not belong?
• What colours can you see?
• What size are the letters?
• Can you sort your set a different way?

Suggestions for use: • What do you see in the picture?
• How many circles do you see?
• What different colours do you see?
• How could you sort these buttons?
• How are they the same?
• Why do they belong together?
• How are they different?
• Why does this one not belong?
• Do you notice any patterns?
• Can you see any repeated patterns?
• Can you see any other shapes?

Suggestions for use: • What do you see?
• How many is there?
• Can you see any pairs? Where? How many?