Category Archives: Advent Calendar

Five of the Best Educational Online Advent Calendars

Online Advent Calendars It’s December: soon the streets will be clad in snow and filled with the sound of carol singers and jingling bells. With three weeks until the end of term, many parents are asking: how can I keep … Continue reading

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Day 24 – Festive Non-Verbal Reasoning

It’s the final day of Better Tuition’s Advent Activity Calendar and we have some festive non-verbal reasoning activity for you.  You will find the answers here.  Try more festive NVR from Better Tuition. Non-verbal reasoning helps develop problem-solving skills and … Continue reading

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Advent Calendar Day 23 – Gingerbread Puzzle

Your Better Tuition Advent challenge today is a fun maths puzzle.     Ava is making gingerbread men for Christmas. She uses 2 raisins for eyes and 3 raisins for buttons for each gingerbread man. She buys 4 boxes of raisins, each with 120 … Continue reading

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Advent Calendar Day 22 – When the Reindeer Went Missing

Welcome to Day 22 of Better Tuition’s Winter Advent Activity Calendar.  Today we have a Yuletide English Language Quiz for you.  We hope you enjoy it. Instructions: In each question, choose the best word or group of words to complete this passage … Continue reading

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Advent Calendar Day 20 – A Solstice Puzzle

Your Better Tuition Advent challenge today is a fun maths puzzle. Welcome to Day 20 of Better Tuition’s Winter Advent Activity Calendar.  Today we have a Christmas maths problem for you. Maths Problem: December 21st is the winter solstice: the shortest and darkest day of the year. If … Continue reading

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Advent Calendar Day 21 – Mince Pie Maths

Welcome to Day 21 of Better Tuition’s Winter Advent Activity Calendar.  Today we have a Christmas maths problem for you. Return to our advent calendar. Santa visits eight houses in twenty minutes.  In each he eats the following amounts of mince pie: 2, 4, 1, … Continue reading

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Advent Calendar Day 19: When Christmas Came Early (Verbal Reasoning)

On the 19th day of Better Tuition’s winter activity advent calendar, we have a fun Verbal Reasoning challenge. Verbal Reasoning can really help attune the brain to paying attention to detail.  In particular you will want to hone your verbal reasoning skills if you … Continue reading

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Advent Calendar Day 18: Star of Wonder

Your challenge today is to calculate and identify the angles on the star below. You can visit Better Tuition’s Advent Activity Calendar every day until 24th December for a fun learning activity in maths, English, verbal or non-verbal reasoning. You may also … Continue reading

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Advent Calendar Day 15 – a Circular Christmas

Today’s advent challenge is to label the parts of a circular bauble. Return to our Advent Activity Calendar. Visit our download store to download 100 Winter Word Problems absolutely FREE. Does your child need extra help with maths? Whether s/he … Continue reading

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Advent Calendar: Day 13 – Time for Maths

Welcome to Day13 of Better Tuition’s Winter Advent Activity Calendar.  Today we have a set of Christmas maths problems for you. Return to our advent calendar. Today is Tuesday, 13th December 2022.  The current time is 10:03.  The start of December 2022 was at 00:00 … Continue reading

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