These tasks will help children become more fluent in the context of number and calculation. They supplement the activities in our Fluency Feature. The first two are games and so could be revisited many times, whereas the remaining activities are one-off challenges.
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Number match
Age
5 to 11
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A task which depends on members of the group noticing the needs of others and responding.
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I'm eight
Age
5 to 11
Challenge level
Find a great variety of ways of asking questions which make 8.
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Three dice
Age
7 to 11
Challenge level
Investigate the sum of the numbers on the top and bottom faces of a line of three dice. What do you notice?
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Consecutive numbers
Age
7 to 14
Challenge level
An investigation involving adding and subtracting sets of consecutive numbers. Lots to find out, lots to explore.
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Forgot the numbers
Age
7 to 11
Challenge level
On my calculator I divided one whole number by another whole number and got the answer 3.125. If the numbers are both under 50, what are they?
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Reach 100
Age
7 to 11
Challenge level
Choose four different digits from 1-9 and put one in each box so that the resulting four two-digit numbers add to a total of 100.
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Sealed solution
Age
7 to 11
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Ten cards are put into five envelopes so that there are two cards in each envelope. The sum of the numbers inside it is written on each envelope. What numbers could be inside the envelopes?
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Spiralling decimals
Take turns to place a decimal number on the spiral. Can you get three consecutive numbers?