Homes

There are to be 6 homes built on a new development site. They could be semi-detached, detached or terraced houses. How many different combinations of these can you find?

Number Squares

Start with four numbers at the corners of a square and put the total of two corners in the middle of that side. Keep going... Can you estimate what the size of the last four numbers will be?

I'm Eight

Find a great variety of ways of asking questions which make 8.

Big Dog, Little Dog

Why do this problem?

This problem would fit in well when children are doing addition and subtraction of numbers under $20$. It would help them to see that these are not all "sums" but have some real-life connections.

Key questions

How many dog biscuits are there altogether?
Do those two numbers add to $16$?

Possible extension

Learners could find how many biscuits each dog would have if there were $10$, $11$, $12$ ... $20$ altogether.

Possible support

Using $16$ counters will help children work on the problem.