The Great Toy Shop Sort is a categorising activity for Year 2 maths. Pupils write toys from a word bank into soft toys, vehicles and games columns, count each category, order them from most to fewest, then add a new toy of their own to each group. Answers and marking guidance included. Matches the England National Curriculum sorting objective.
Statistics
“Ask and answer simple questions by counting the number of objects in each category and sorting the categories by quantity”
Sorting, counting and ordering the categories is the entire task.
Toys from the word bank written into Soft Toys, Vehicles and Games columns.
Category totals, ordering from most to fewest, and a trickiest-toy question.
Solutions plus acceptance criteria for the open-ended answers.
Main task
Use it as the first data lesson, before charts are introduced.
Talk partners
Debate the trickiest toy in pairs before writing the answer.
Early finishers
Adding new toys to each category extends the sort naturally.
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