Buzzy Bee

Buzzy Bee was building a honeycomb. She decided to decorate the honeycomb with a pattern using numbers. Can you discover Buzzy's pattern and fill in the empty cells for her?

Fair Exchange

In your bank, you have three types of coins. The number of spots shows how much they are worth. Can you choose coins to exchange with the groups given to make the same total?

Domino Number Patterns

Can you work out the domino pieces which would go in the middle in each case to complete the pattern of these eight sets of 3 dominoes?

Twizzle's Journey

Stage: 1 Challenge Level:

Why do this problem?

This problem will help pupils become more confident in calculating with units of time and is a practical example of optimisation.

The problem could be introduced by projecting the map onto a screen and children could be given copies on paper.

Key questions

How long is each route?

Which route is most bendy?

How are you going to decide on the best route?

How many stops would be needed for each journey?

Possible extension

The problem Delia's Routes might be a good extension. It challenges learners to work in a systematic way to find possible routes.

Possible support

Having a paper copy of the routes will help children get started. Encourage them to work with a partner.

Working systematically. Factors and multiples. Addition & subtraction. Investigations. Trial and improvement. Interactivities. Combinations. Time. Comparing and Ordering numbers. Multiplication & division.

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