The subject of this thesis is the motivational task in primary school education. A motivational tasks are those tasks that introduce pupils to new teaching content and they appear at the beginning of a new lesson. They connect the teaching content that is familiar to students from before with the new content. This thesis aims to analyse motivational task in mathematics textbooks for second grade of elementary school. This work encompasses the description of the types of mathematical tasks, their purpose as well as their importance in teaching. Furthermore, the importance of motivation with special emphasis on motivation in mathematics teaching are also explained. Motivation in mathematics is very important because many pupils feel fear and negative emotions towards mathematics. The purpose of motivational tasks is to bring the content of new lesson closer to the pupils, connect them with content that is known and encourage motivation toward mathematics. Finally, the last part of this thesis brings the analysis of motivational tasks in 6 mathematics textbooks for second grade of elementary school. The representation of motivational tasks in textbooks and the familiarity of the content of the mentioned tasks with children in classroom teaching were analysed. Also, the motivational tasks were analysed with regard to the context, whether the tasks are intra-mathematical, realistic or authentic, as well as the type of answer (open or closed type of task).