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Frances and Rishi were given a bag of lollies. They shared them out evenly and had one left over. How many lollies could there have been in the bag?
Help share out the biscuits the children have made.
Pat counts her sweets in different groups and both times she has some left over. How many sweets could she have had?
Investigate the smallest number of moves it takes to turn these mats upside-down if you can only turn exactly three at a time.
Ben and his mum are planting garlic. Use the interactivity to help you find out how many cloves of garlic they might have had.
Ben’s class were making cutting up number tracks. First they cut them into twos and added up the numbers on each piece. What patterns could they see?
This package will help introduce children to, and encourage a deep exploration of, multiples.
Find the squares that Froggie skips onto to get to the pumpkin patch. She starts on 3 and finishes on 30, but she lands only on a square that has a number 3 more than the square she skips from.
Can you find the chosen number from the grid using the clues?
Find the words hidden inside each of the circles by counting around a certain number of spaces to find each letter in turn.
Andrew decorated 20 biscuits to take to a party. He lined them up and put icing on every second biscuit and different decorations on other biscuits. How many biscuits weren't decorated?
What do the numbers shaded in blue on this hundred square have in common? What do you notice about the pink numbers? How about the shaded numbers in the other squares?
If there is a ring of six chairs and thirty children must either sit on a chair or stand behind one, how many children will be behind each chair?
In this maze of hexagons, you start in the centre at 0. The next hexagon must be a multiple of 2 and the next a multiple of 5. What are the possible paths you could take?
Can you place the numbers from 1 to 10 in the grid?
How many trains can you make which are the same length as Matt's, using rods that are identical?
This article for teachers describes how number arrays can be a useful reprentation for many number concepts.
A game for 2 people using a pack of cards Turn over 2 cards and try to make an odd number or a multiple of 3.
Arrange the four number cards on the grid, according to the rules, to make a diagonal, vertical or horizontal line.
How many different sets of numbers with at least four members can you find in the numbers in this box?
Which is quicker, counting up to 30 in ones or counting up to 300 in tens? Why?
What is the lowest number which always leaves a remainder of 1 when divided by each of the numbers from 2 to 10?
You can make a calculator count for you by any number you choose. You can count by ones to reach 24. You can count by twos to reach 24. What else can you count by to reach 24?
Look at the squares in this problem. What does the next square look like? I draw a square with 81 little squares inside it. How long and how wide is my square?
56 406 is the product of two consecutive numbers. What are these two numbers?
Use this grid to shade the numbers in the way described. Which numbers do you have left? Do you know what they are called?
Use cubes to continue making the numbers from 7 to 20. Are they sticks, rectangles or squares?
Can you work out how to balance this equaliser? You can put more than one weight on a hook.
On the planet Vuv there are two sorts of creatures. The Zios have 3 legs and the Zepts have 7 legs. The great planetary explorer Nico counted 52 legs. How many Zios and how many Zepts were there?
There are ten children in Becky's group. Can you find a set of numbers for each of them? Are there any other sets?
Can you order the digits from 1-6 to make a number which is divisible by 6 so when the last digit is removed it becomes a 5-figure number divisible by 5, and so on?
On a farm there were some hens and sheep. Altogether there were 8 heads and 22 feet. How many hens were there?
Mr Gilderdale is playing a game with his class. What rule might he have chosen? How would you test your idea?
I throw three dice and get 5, 3 and 2. Add the scores on the three dice. What do you get? Now multiply the scores. What do you notice?
"Ip dip sky blue! Who's 'it'? It's you!" Where would you position yourself so that you are 'it' if there are two players? Three players ...?
A game for 2 or more people. Starting with 100, subratct a number from 1 to 9 from the total. You score for making an odd number, a number ending in 0 or a multiple of 6.
In a square in which the houses are evenly spaced, numbers 3 and 10 are opposite each other. What is the smallest and what is the largest possible number of houses in the square?
How can you use just one weighing to find out which box contains the lighter ten coins out of the ten boxes?
These red, yellow and blue spinners were each spun 45 times in total. Can you work out which numbers are on each spinner?
Are these domino games fair? Can you explain why or why not?
Use the interactivity to sort these numbers into sets. Can you give each set a name?
Suppose we allow ourselves to use three numbers less than 10 and multiply them together. How many different products can you find? How do you know you've got them all?
In this problem we are looking at sets of parallel sticks that cross each other. What is the least number of crossings you can make? And the greatest?
Factor track is not a race but a game of skill. The idea is to go round the track in as few moves as possible, keeping to the rules.
Four of these clues are needed to find the chosen number on this grid and four are true but do nothing to help in finding the number. Can you sort out the clues and find the number?
Yasmin and Zach have some bears to share. Which numbers of bears can they share so that there are none left over?
Follow the clues to find the mystery number.
An investigation that gives you the opportunity to make and justify predictions.
A game for two people, or play online. Given a target number, say 23, and a range of numbers to choose from, say 1-4, players take it in turns to add to the running total to hit their target.
An environment which simulates working with Cuisenaire rods.