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Christmas Math Activities: Problem Solving With the 12 Days of Christmas

Here’s a fun way to connect your classroom holiday sing-a-long with fantastic math concepts – perfect for ages 8 and up! In fact, students who love math may get so caught up in all of the number patterns they can find in The 12 Days of Christmas song that they may not want to stop!

This activity requires no special materials, just paper and pencil and the lyrics of The 12 Days of Christmas. Y ou can find the lyrics along with some problem solving prompts and record sheets at the bottom of the post, available as a free printable download.

You’re probably already familiar with the song but in case you need a refresher, here’s how it begins:

The 12 Days Of Christmas On the first day of Christmas, my true love sent to me A partridge in a pear tree. On the second day of Christmas, my true love sent to me two turtle doves, and a partridge in a pear tree. On the third day of Christmas, my true love sent to me three French hens, two turtle doves, and a partridge in a pear tree.

Now here’s the interesting question to pose to middle-grade students – have you ever wondered how many gifts in total were received? 

Many will immediately work on adding them up this way:

1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 5 + 6 + 7 + 8 + 9 + 10 + 11 + 12 =

Although this is not going to produce the true answer, it can be a great opportunity to reinforce finding sums of 10 first.

By counting the ten made (1+ 9)+ (2 + 8) (3 + 7), and (4 + 6) and adding the remaining numbers ( +5, +10, +11, +12), the sum of 78 can be determined fairly quickly.

That’s quite a heap of presents! However, you might ask, “Is this really what the song says – that one gift is given each day?”

After a closer look at the lyrics, students will see that on the second day, it appears that the “true love” gives three gifts- two turtle doves and another partridge in a pear tree!

Now the math fun really begins! Ask students to list the days and the number of presents given! Have them predict the grand total before actually doing the figuring.

Day 1 – 1 gift Day 2 – 3 gifts Day 3 – 6 gifts Day 4 – 10 gifts

…. and so on.

This song is “super mathy” with patterns galore! Ask students to see if they notice any patterns as they figure the gifts. They might see this one:

Day 1 : 1 Day 2 : 3 (1 + 2) Day 3 : 6 (1 + 2 + 3) Day 4 : 10 (1 + 2 + 3 + 4)

Recognizing patterns in math is the basis of all kinds of more advanced work. Some students might notice the numbers of gifts received are all “triangular numbers,” numbers that can be formed by dots in triangles.

When students have a chance to work with the new sums, then total them, they should find that the grand total of all gifts received is 364 !

For older students, additional questions can lead to more discoveries. For example:

Which gifts will total a dozen by the end of the song? Partridges and drummers (Each day, one partridge will be given so there will be a total of 12. On just one day, Day 12, a dozen drummers will be given.)

Of the 364 gifts, which ones will be given in the greatest numbers? Geese and swans – (6 geese will be given a total of 7 days for a total of 42 geese; 7 swans will be given 6 out of the twelve days for a total of 42 swans)

We’ve included these questions in the printable 12 days of Christmas Math Activity Pack (which you can download and print below). The pack includes the song lyrics and four pages of Christmas math activities related to the song.

There you have it! A very “mathy” Christmas carol it is, and you may never be able to hear it again without thinking about all the computations and number applications!

RELATED: Looking for more holiday activity ideas for  school age kids? Check out our 12 Days of Christmas Fun for School Age Kids .

Printing your 12 days of christmas math activity sheets.

Click here to download: 12 Days of Christmas Math Activities . Save the PDF to your computer. Open the PDF and print the pages you require. When printing, select “Fit to printable area” (or similar) to ensure the page fits with your printer type and local paper size (these have been created at A4 size).

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Christie Burnett is a teacher, presenter, writer and the mother of two. She created Childhood 101 as a place for teachers and parents to access engaging, high quality learning ideas.

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Fabulous resource – thank you so much for sharing it…

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12 Days Of Christmas Puzzle

The puzzle:.

According to the traditional song, on the first day of Christmas (25th December), my true love sent to me:

• A partridge in a pear tree

On the second day of Christmas (26th December), my true love sent to me THREE presents:

• Two turtle doves • A partridge in a pear tree

On the third day of Christmas (27th December and so on) my true love sent to me SIX presents:

• Three French hens • Two turtle doves • A partridge in a pear tree

This carries on until the the twelfth day of Christmas, when my true love sends me:

• Twelve drummers drumming • Eleven pipers piping • Ten lords a-leaping • Nine ladies dancing • Eight maids a-milking • Seven swans a-swimming • Six geese a-laying • Five gold rings • Four calling birds • Three French hens • Two turtle doves • A partridge in a pear tree

After the twelve days of Christmas are over, how many presents has my true love sent me altogether?

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12 Days of Holiday Math Puzzles—Printable K-8 Worksheets

December 1, 2023 by Anthony Persico

Math teachers and parents are put to the test during the holiday season—a time when kids are anxious, easily distracted, and often struggling to stay on task.

Rather than work against your students’ anticipation and excitement, you can channel their enthusiasm for the holidays into meaningful math learning experiences by including some fun holiday-themed activities into your upcoming lesson plans.

Whether you plan on celebrating Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, or the winter season as a whole at home or in your classroom, you can share any of our holiday-themed math puzzles with your students this holiday season.

Each puzzle challenges students to use their math skills to find the values different holiday-themed symbols and icons. The puzzles can be downloaded as printable pdf worksheets that are easy to share and are suitable for students in grades 3-8.

All of the puzzles below are samples from the holiday puzzle calendars available on the Mashup Math membership website .

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12 Days of Christmaths

23 december 2021.

We’ve put our creative maths twist on the number-themed festive classic song 12 Days of Christmas!

Challenge yourself and your family to try as many of the activities as possible over the Christmas holidays  – can you do all 12?

A Festive Family Maths Challenge

Creating positive memories of doing maths together as a family is an important step in building a confident, can-do attitude towards maths.

Explore the 12 days of Christmaths

You know the song off by heart and back to front, so here’s our version. Each ‘present’ featured in the song has inspired us to create a new activity, or find a festive twist on an old favourite.

Watch the videos and have a go!

The 12 activities, like all our creative maths resources, are designed for exploring as a family. Let children take each activity or challenge as far as they want. There is no right or wrong way, so don’t be afraid to get stuck in and enjoy experimenting.

How To videos & craft materials

Scroll down to the Resources section at the bottom of this page for short videos demonstrating each activity. Some activities have an accompanying worksheet (links provided). You’ll also find a list of what you’ll need to do the different activities.

What you'll need

• Paper or card
• Colouring Pencils/Pens
• Glue or tape
• String or ribbon
• Glitter, pom poms and other decorative craft materials (optional)

To complete all 12 activities you’ll also need to find:

• A stopwatch or the timer on a mobile phone
• A ball that bounces
• Some beads (or we can show you how to make your own)

1. A Partridge Without A Pear Tree

Create a unique bird mobile. Pear tree optional.

A Partridge Without A Pear Tree Activity Sheet

2. double doves.

Practise doubling and symmetry.

Double Doves is based on our 'Doublebugs' activity

3. pursuing hens.

Practice your measuring and line drawing skills, and explore different patterns with just a pencil, ruler and some simple shapes.

Create a Curves of Pursuit artwork

4. tessellating birds.

Create your own tessellation and transform it into a piece of art.

Create a Tessellation artwork

5. 3d gold rings.

Craft your own set of 3D ring decorations.

6. Egg Symmetry

Practise pattern-making and use symmetry to decorate the eggs that all those famous geese have been a-laying!

Download an egg template from our 'Egg Symmetry' activity

7. origami swans.

Transform flat paper into a beautiful 3D swan (or 7).

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8. counting legs challenge.

8 cows, 8 milkers - how many legs? Get cow-nting!

9. Dancing Multiples

Practise multiplying using paper. How many dancers do you start with, and how many do you end up with? Use pattern, shape and symmetry to decorate your dancers.

10. Leaping Heartbears

Explore what happens to your heartbeats when you change your activity. Measure your heartbeat, then try measuring it again after a spot of leaping about.

Measure your heartbeats activity

11. pi-pers bracelet.

A crafty decorative way to explore the concept of Pi  by using the digits to design a unique bracelet.

Need to make your own beads? Find the instructions in our '100 bead necklace' activity sheet

12. bouncing beats challenge.

Grab a ball and challenge your family to bounce it in time to the music. Then take it to the next level and bounce along to the rhythm. How far can you get without getting out of time?

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Free worksheet – Counting the Twelve Days of Christmas

Christmas is just around the corner… How about a little math twist on a familiar Christmas carol? I am sure we are all familiar with the “Twelve days of Christmas”, but has it occurred to you that the number of presents that “my true love sent to me” is a sequence of Triangular Numbers?

For each of the twelve days of Christmas, the number of gifts received is actually an accumulative number. On the first day, you get one gift (a partridge), on the second day you get three (a partridge and 2 turtle doves), and so on….

In this free worksheet, you’ll be asked to count the number of gifts you will receive on each day (there is a trick to it) and the total number of gifts you will receive up to the n-th day. Three sets of questions are provided, suitable for

• 1st and 2nd graders,
• 3rd to 5th graders,
• 6th to 8th graders.

Suggested solutions are provided at the end (don’t peek).

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12 Days of Christmas Math Activity

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While my forte is literacy, ALuv’s {currently 2nd grade} is definitely math. Just last week, my mom {who helps me homeschool three days a week} challenged him with a 12 Days of Christmas math activity.

*This post contains affiliate links. **The 2016 updated printables can be found towards the end of this post. Just click on the teal download button.

He was to figure out how many gifts “my true love” gave each day altogether in the 12 days of Christmas song. My mom went home to figure out how many gifts there were in all and if he arrived at the same number, she would have a little prize waiting for him. He was very eager to try this out.

Once he had gone through the entire song, I challenged him to use mental math to add up the sum in each rectangle. This part was rather interesting. We had such rich discussion about several math concepts.

Math Concepts Covered

1- Introduction to multiplication. If you add 1 twelve times, it’s the same as saying 1 x 12, which equals 12.

2- Multiplication is commutative . When he got to the number 3 box, he was to add 3 ten times. He began to count by three’s to add them all up. Once he came to the sum of 30, I briefly showed him how knowing that 10 x 3 could help him solve 3 x 10. And just like addition, multiplication is commutative. The same thing happened when he calculated 6 x 7, then turned right around and multiplied 7 x 6.

3- Grouping numbers to add. Instead of adding 8+8+8+8+8 as individual 8’s, he grouped 16+16, then added 8 more. This strategy kept him from writing down all the numbers to add.

4- Using related sums to solve other addition problems . When he got to day nine, he used the sums of 16+16 from day eight to help him figure out- if 16+16 equals 32, then 9+9+9+9 (18+18) is just 4 more than 16+16.

5- Using a calculator to figure out sums. This was the first time he had used a calculator for schoolwork. He rather enjoyed doing it and got his total sum.

**Updated printables – added December, 2016!!**

The updated 12 Days of Christmas Math Activity Pack contains a printable page with the 12 days gifts plus a recording sheet, much like the one we originally used.

When we used it this year, we figured up how many gifts were given on each day.

Also included is a page with questions such as, “How many gifts were given on day 4?”

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December 18, 2013 at 2:28 pm

What a great math assignment! I found this post through the After School linky, I would love if you shared this at my link-up: Anything Goes! http://www.joyfocusedlearning.com/2013/12/anything-goes-link-up-5.html

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Thanks for taking the time to put this together and sharing. This is great!!!

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12 Days of Christmas Math Activities for Middle School

November 3, 2017 by Rachel

The month of December is a crazy time of year in the classroom. The kids are excited, and the teachers are excited too. Fortunately, there’s some easy ways to add seasonal spice to your math classroom. Christmas math activities keep students engaged during this exciting time of year.

Some simple adjustments, like adding seasonal clip art to your work or bringing in some Christmas school supplies as prizes, can go a long way. You have to walk a fine line of not getting the students distracted, but at the same time bringing that seasonal cheer into the class. Students definitely appreciate the effort and will be a little more engaged at a time of year that is otherwise full of distractions.

In my class I start using Christmas and holiday activities from the first day of December. When you really look at it, there aren’t a lot of school days during December. So, let’s check out some great Christmas math ideas that are both low prep and fun for students. Which ones will you add to your class?

The 12 days of Christmas math activities:

Christmas Math Mazes

Math Ornament Coloring Activity

Wits and Wagers Trivia Game

Distributive property christmas bingo, order of operations puzzle.

Santa and Christmas Tree themed prizes

Christmas Tree Exit Tickets (don’t miss this one!)

Math Challenges

Constructing a giant snowflake.

Analyzing the 12 days of Christmas

Christmas Themed Word Problems

Real world math activities, let’s dive in.

Let’s take a look at the each of these activities and how you can incorporate them into your classroom. Not all of the activities might fit your needs, but there’s something for everyone on this list. You’ll find sponge activities to fill those extra minutes as well as activities to last for a whole class period.

Christmas Math Activities- Mazes

Mazes work as a perfect warm-up activity for cyclical review. I have a collection of mazes with Christmas flair that all review different topics from middle grades. They take about 5 minutes to 15 minutes to complete; you could do one every day in the month of December. Below are all the topics I have mazes for, or you can search for mazes on other topics on Teachers Pay Teachers.

Christmas Proportion Maze

Scientific Notation Christmas Maze

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Coloring Activity

Adding a little bit of coloring in the month of December is a great way to get kids engaged. A couple of years ago, I created a coloring page for practicing factors . It helped my students review finding the greatest common factor and least common multiple.

Christmas Guesses and Wagers is a fun trivia game to play with students during the holiday season. I use it the day before Christmas break. This game is a combination of making guesses about trivia questions, evaluating guesses from other teams, and lots of team fun. It includes 13 questions and takes about a class period to complete.

To play this game, you present students with a variety of questions that have numerical answers. Working in groups, students come up with an answer they think is reasonable. Then, you put all answers on the board and ask students to “wager” on what answer(s) they think are closest to the right answer.

This game is really easy to set up and play with your students. To read the step-by-step directions in more detail, check out the post “ Christmas Trivia Game for the Secondary Classroom. ”

Some of the questions that students have to guesstimate an answer for are:

-How many total gifts are given in the 12 Days of Christmas song?

-How much did the average family in the U.S. spend on Christmas present in 2015?

-In what year was the story of Rudolph the Red-nosed Reindeer written?

While playing this game, students practice cooperating with each other and making educated guesses. Most of the questions are very obscure trivia and the goal is really about figuring out what is most reasonable. It’s such a fun game, and it really reinforces the math practices of estimating and checking for the reasonableness of answers. Plus, it’s super low-prep to play. Find the game here!

I’m not sure why, but my students love playing bingo in class. It’s no mystery why I like this game though: the students are totally engaged and working on a lot of problems in a short period of time.

We complete a distributive property bingo in December as cyclical review for this concept. What makes it Christmas is the cute holiday clipart that’s included on it. Also, I give out prizes for the kids who win, which they get pretty excited for. Whether it’s a Jolly Rancher or a Santa eraser, they love prizes.

Some concepts, like order of operations, need reviewing often. I like to practice this topic every few weeks to keep the details sharp in students’ minds. One way we review during December is with this Christmas themed order of operations puzzle . Students have to complete 12 problems and find their matching pair.

If this is the first time that you’re doing this type of puzzle, I’d suggest telling students which piece goes in the middle. Many of my students struggle with seeing what they’re doing the first time they do this type of puzzle. But once they see how the puzzle part works then, they really get into it.

I love the pictures and the visual natural of this puzzle. Adding the clipart is a little thing, but it adds a whimsical feel to the classroom and makes everything seem less serious. 

Christmas school supplies as prizes

My kids love prizes. I give them out more to my math lab classes because I only have about 12 kids in there. We use a program called SumDog for fluency practice and once a week I give out a prize for the top three students. Also, I give prizes when we play bingo. Occasionally, we do prizes for student participation.

If you go to the dollar store, Wal-Mart, or Target, there are a lot of cute Christmas school supplies or toys you can get. Right now my students love slime and squishy things. When you work with Title I kids they seem to really appreciate the prizes. I love using Christmas school supplies as prizes. The kids need pencils and erasers anyways, and this way they feel like they’re earning them.

Christmas Tree Exit Tickets

We complete a reflection exit ticket once or twice a week. Sometimes I like to have the students put their exit tickets on the door.

For December, our exit tickets are Christmas ornaments. You can have students put their exit tickets on the door as rectangles, or you can have them cut them out. You could even have a tree on your door or wall that students add their ornaments to. It’s a great way for students to display their work and decorate the classroom, all while giving you a bit more insight into their ideas about what they’re learning. This idea is so easy, and you probably already do exit tickets, so it’s just a little bit more effort to make this a memorable holiday experience.

Download your free set of ornament exit tickets here.

I love these math challenges from Mash-up math . Students need more abstract practice with equations, and that’s what these do. This set of challenges has  Christmas and winter themes and contains 12 challenges to choose from.

You could either have the students complete one challenge a day, or you could have challenges printed and hang them around the room as a gallery walk. This would work as something that could be ready for fast finishers, or for when you have extra time with the whole class. These challenges are fun and engaging. Your students will be asking for more!

We live in Arizona, so the only snowflakes we see around here are made of paper. In this blog post  from Free to Discover you’ll find a detailed description of how to make these geometric masterpieces. Students will love making these and will want to take them home. I used this last year as a fast finisher project that students completed when they finished their work. They loved them!

Analyzing the 12 Days of Christmas

This 12 Days of Christmas activity from PNC bank looks amazing. I haven’t tried it, yet but I am planning on using it this year. PNC has created an interactive website that shows the change in cost of all the presents in the 12 Days of Christmas through the years. Something that’s especially awesome about this activity is that it comes with a lesson plan and multiple activities that you can do with the website. After looking at their charts, I can’t really believe how much the prices have increased in my lifetime.

I’m excited for my students to see the concepts that we’re learning in a real world context. We have a few days before Christmas break where we can do some project based learning. This will be perfect. The lesson plans on this website are pretty complete and will take us 1 to 2 class periods.

I found this list of Christmas word problems that reviews some basic skills like proportions, exponents, and equations. The problems themselves bring in the Christmas touch because they have candy canes or Christmas trees in them.

You could use this with the whole class as a modeling activity with the C.U.B.E.S problem-solving strategy. With this strategy the students solve word problems through this process:

-Circle the important numbers.

-Underline the question.

-Box in the operation words.

-Evaluate what you need to do.

-Solve and check your work.

The C.U.B.E.S. strategy help students tackle those troublesome word problems, and would work great with this collection of Christmas word problems. One great thing about this set of problems is that the  problems vary in the concept that they are practicing. The students don’t go into each problem knowing that it’s a proportions problem, or an exponents problem. This kind of practice helps students be ready for solving novel problems. In addition, the novelty of the Christmas theme keeps the students engaged.

Learning math happens everywhere, and that holds true for Christmas as well. The Yummy Math website has three challenge problems that show math in the real world. These problems look a lot like 3-Act math problems and give your students the chance to do some hands-on math. These lessons are free and include answer keys. They emphasize making predictions and have students practice a variety of math concepts.

For example, one of the activities is related to a soda display that looks like Santa. Students answer a variety of questions about this display, including how many cans of soda it contains. Also, they work with the probability of choosing a can of Sprite from the display. This type of activity works perfectly as a way for students to engage in math talk.

Try one thing

Don’t feel like you have to do a whole bunch of Christmas math activities. Just try one or two things. The kids will appreciate and you’ll have a little bit more Christmas cheer in your class.

Remember that it can really be quite simple to add some holiday cheer. Christmas themed assignments or bringing some Christmas stuff into your class goes a long ways.

The two of us here at Math Idea Galaxy would like to wish you a Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays this time of year. Thanks so much for reading! Until next time. 

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Creative perspectives on education and classroom management, problem solving: the twelve days of christmas.

November 6, 2010 Teachnet Staff Christmas , Math , Winter 0

Objective: Students will use different problem-solving strategies, and creative writing.

Resources: Teacher: Teacher copies of Brian Wildsmith’s “The Twelve Days of Christmas.” Student: pencil, paper, calculator.

1. Procedure: Hand out copies of “The Twelve Days of Christmas. 2. Read through the song with the class. 3. Ask students to solve the problem of how many presents were given.

Variations/Options:

* Use this lesson as an opportunity to explain sequences, in this case 1+12 six times to find the answer. * Students can research prices of each gift. * Have students substitute present-day items that they think might be more appropriate. * Discuss the historical context of each gift from the song. * Have students write their own rap version of the song. * Students can do a creative writing exercise describing the consequences of having all these gifts around twelve days or twelve weeks AFTER Christmas.

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A lovely seasonal problem solving task with extension questions (number, measures, money) based on the total number of gifts delivered over the 12 day period! Ideal for mixed ability groups (E2-L1).

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