Do More with Maths!
build money confidence with Free Resources for Maths Week england 2024
Engage your students in maths and money with free classroom activities designed to build essential financial skills in primary learners.
From the LifeSavers financial education programme, our specially crafted resources cover key areas of financial literacy for early years, Key Stage 1, and Key Stage 2. These lessons are practical, real-world-oriented, and curriculum-aligned, making it easy for teachers to integrate financial education into maths lessons.
free maths week england 2024 classroom activities
In support of Maths Week England 2024, we’re pleased to offer free financial education classroom activities for primary schools. Our activities are designed to support teachers and maths leads in delivering impactful, practical financial education that goes beyond numbers - and links to the existing maths curriculum. These activities cover:
Early Years and Key Stage 1: introducing money concepts like coin recognition, understanding the value of different coins, and simple money combinations.
Upper and Lower Key Stage 2: developing practical maths skills like addition, subtraction, and problem-solving through money contexts.
Do more with Maths
Numeracy and core maths are essential skills when it comes to managing money. But in real life, effective financial management requires more than maths. It involves evaluating information, building confidence to make informed choices, and understanding the possible outcomes—both positive and negative—of those choices. Our approach to financial education goes beyond enhancing numeracy skills; it fosters critical thinking, practical decision-making, and a personal understanding of values and emotions around money.
Through LifeSavers, we aim to help children develop a healthy, balanced relationship with money by equipping them not only with numeracy skills but also with the confidence and broad perspective they need to make wise financial decisions in their own lives.
Through our resources, classroom activities and assemblies, children learn to:
Strengthen numeracy in real-world contexts like budgeting and savings.
Build critical thinking skills to assess financial decisions, preparing them for everyday money management.
Explore personal values and emotions around money, fostering a well-rounded, healthy approach to finance.
benefits of teaching money and maths
Teaching students to apply maths to real financial contexts prepares them for a future where financial confidence and resilience are essential. Through financial education, students:
Develop money confidence: building a comfortable relationship with money boosts confidence and independence.
Connect classroom learning to everyday life: understanding how maths applies to real-life decisions enhances problem-solving skills.
Prepare for life and work: financial literacy at a young age lays the foundation for lifelong economic wellbeing.
get started: join us for maths week 2024!
You can start making a difference in your students’ lives today by incorporating financial education into your maths lessons. Here’s how to get started:
Download our free Maths Week activities for your classroom.
Sign up for updates to join our teacher community and receive financial education training, resources, and best practice tips throughout the year.
Book a call with our financial education coordinator, Paul Street, an experienced headteacher and maths lead. Discover how we can support you with free training, resources, and guidance to deliver financial education year-round.
Want to find out more about how we support Maths teachers? Talk to Paul.
Paul is a Financial Education Delivery Coordinator at Just Finance Foundation. Paul provides face-to-face support for Lifesavers schools in the Nottinghamshire area while also providing remote support to schools across the country. Paul played a key role in developing Milo’s Money - our innovative financial education resource for children aged 5-7. Before working for Lifesavers, Paul worked in primary education for over thirty years, spending time as a teacher, a local authority mathematics adviser and a headteacher of two primary schools. He is passionate about making a difference to the lives and future prospects of children.
Fully funded resources - access them for free!
Our LifeSavers programme offers comprehensive support for financial education in primary schools, with classroom resources that connect seamlessly to the maths curriculum and beyond. Our lessons help students develop confidence and independence in money matters, applying their maths skills to practical scenarios they’ll encounter throughout life.
Our classroom activities provide opportunities to align with the national curriculum and cover key financial education topics, including:
Recognising money denominations and symbols
Solving addition and subtraction problems with money
Learning the value of money through real-life contexts like saving and spending
Exploring decision-making and the emotional aspects of money
All the LifeSavers resources are fully funded - this means that schools can access everything for free. Our generous funders contribute funds, resources and expertise that helps us continue to provide high quality financial education at no cost to schools.
Contact us to find out more about how our free programme can make a difference in your classroom and improve financial literacy across the UK.
Teachers receive:
CPD training
Curriculum aligned lesson plans
Values-based lessons
Assembly resources
