Welcome to Prime Café, where only prime foods make it onto the menu! This engaging maths activity helps children identify and understand prime numbers through hands-on investigation and reasoning.
Children explore numbered food items and decide which belong in the Prime Café by testing whether each number is prime. Using times table knowledge, reasoning skills, or practical counters to check if numbers can be shared equally, learners build a secure understanding of what makes a number prime — and why.
With a clear real-world context and minimal resources needed, Prime Café is perfect for independent work, paired activities, maths lessons or intervention groups.
What’s Included
-
Prime Café printable worksheet
-
Menu recording section for identified prime numbers
-
Clear instructions
Why You’ll Love It
-
Makes abstract prime number concepts concrete and accessible
-
Encourages reasoning and explanation, not just answers
-
Reinforces times tables and factor knowledge
-
Easy to differentiate and quick to set up
-
Ideal for KS2 maths lessons and practice
Perfect For
-
Teaching and revising prime numbers
-
Independent or paired learning
Serve up mathematical thinking with Prime Café — where children discover that prime numbers are always on the menu! ☕🍰
