Some hands on Christmas problem solving activities I made for the last week in school before the Christmas break. My year threes loved these and worked on them for ages (much longer than I expected) in little groups. It was good to see children who usually struggle in maths shining during this session, as they were great at visual problems and could see things the other children couldn't! I used the little coloured match sticks for the children to arrange and rearrange on their tables.