### Month Mania

Can you design a new shape for the twenty-eight squares and arrange the numbers in a logical way? What patterns do you notice?

### Noah

Noah saw 12 legs walk by into the Ark. How many creatures did he see?

### Writing Digits

Lee was writing all the counting numbers from 1 to 20. She stopped for a rest after writing seventeen digits. What was the last number she wrote?

# Tug of War

##### Stage: 1 Challenge Level:

Here is a game for two players - OR you could play here on the computer;

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### OR

you could use a counter and draw a number line on paper like this,

HOW TO PLAY

One player is called "PLUS"
The other is called "MINUS" so decide who is who.
Plus moves from left to right and Minus moves from right to left. (The children may be encouraged to think about why that might be.)
Take it in turns to throw the two dice and add up the numbers on the two dice.
Move that number of places in your direction.
If the counter reaches $1$, Minus has won and so, of course if the counter reaches $27$, Plus has won.

You might think about whether you have to land exactly at $1$ or $27$ or allowed to end up beyond those points. I wonder what difference it will make if you are allowed to go beyond rather than landing exactly on the end numbers?Once you have got used to the  game, you might like to make some changes. You can  decide.