{"product_id":"christmas-crack-the-code-year-2","title":"Christmas Crack the Code Year 2","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEight Christmas jokes your Year 2 students have to add and subtract their way into — and the punchline only appears if the maths is right.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eChristmas Crack the Code Year 2 turns the last weeks of term into number-fact practice your students volunteer for. Each of the eight sheets opens with a Christmas character asking a riddle, then gives twelve lettered sums and a row of blanks. Solve each sum, find its answer under a blank, write the letter above it, and the punchline appears. Every sum is addition or subtraction — answers run from 10 to 59, and the largest number on the page is 99. When students add, at least one number is a two-digit number; when they subtract, two-digit numbers are taken from numbers up to 99.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBecause the letters have to spell something, the sheets mark themselves. A wrong answer gives a letter that makes nonsense of the joke, so students go back and check without being told to — and you are not marking 96 sums by hand.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEvery sheet has its own Christmas character peering over the top of the grid, so the page looks like something worth doing rather than a page of sums.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA guaranteed hit in every Year 2 classroom every December!\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhy teachers love it:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eSelf-checking\u003c\/strong\u003e — the punchline only appears if the maths is right, so students correct themselves\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003e96 sums across eight sheets\u003c\/strong\u003e — twelve per page, enough for real fact fluency\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eEvery answer on a sheet is different\u003c\/strong\u003e — no number points at two letters, so the code can never be ambiguous\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePitched properly at Year 2\u003c\/strong\u003e — every sum sits inside the Year 2 range, no drifting up or down mid-page\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eCurriculum-linked, not curriculum-adjacent\u003c\/strong\u003e — written against ACARA v9 AC9M2N04 and AC9M2A02: adding and subtracting one- and two-digit numbers, and recalling addition facts to 20 with their related subtraction facts\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePhotocopier friendly\u003c\/strong\u003e — clean black and white, no heavy ink, no grey fills\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePerfect for:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eYear 2 maths lessons in Term 4 and through the Christmas period\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNumber fact fluency and mental maths warm-ups\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMaths rotations, centres and independent practice\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFast finisher and early finisher tasks\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eRelief teacher folders and the last week of term\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHomework that students will actually bring back\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhat's included — 17 printable A4 pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003e8 crack-the-code sheets\u003c\/strong\u003e — one Christmas riddle each, twelve lettered sums, and a Christmas character to go with it\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003e8 matching answer keys\u003c\/strong\u003e — every sum solved and every punchline spelled out, with additions in green and subtractions in red\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e1 terms of use page\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe skills covered:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eadding one- and two-digit numbers\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003etwo-digit subtraction with regrouping\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eaddition facts to 20 and the subtraction facts that go with them\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIdeal for your strongest Year 2 mathematicians and for Year 3 revision. 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