This collection is one of our Primary Curriculum collections - tasks that are grouped by topic.
A City of Towers
In this town, houses are built with one room for each person. There are some families of seven people living in the town. In how many different ways can they build their houses?
Break it up!
In how many different ways can you break up a stick of seven interlocking cubes? Now try with a stick of eight cubes and a stick of six cubes. What do you notice?
Chairs and Tables
Make a chair and table out of interlocking cubes, making sure that the chair fits under the table!
Street Sequences
Repeating Patterns
Cube bricks and daisy chains
Daisy and Akram were making number patterns. Daisy was using beads that looked like flowers and Akram was using cube bricks. First they were counting in twos.
Triple Cubes
This challenge involves eight three-cube models made from interlocking cubes. Investigate different ways of putting the models together then compare your constructions.
Poly Plug Pattern
Create a pattern on the small grid. How could you extend your pattern on the larger grid?
Circles, Circles
Here are some arrangements of circles. How many circles would I need to make the next size up for each? Can you create your own arrangement and investigate the number of circles it needs?
Counting Stick Conjectures
Missing Middles
Hundred Square
A hundred square has been printed on both sides of a piece of paper. What is on the back of 100? 58? 23? 19?