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What statements can you make about the car that passes the school gates at 11am on Monday? How will you come up with statements and test your ideas?
What can you say about the child who will be first on the playground tomorrow morning at breaktime in your school?
The class were playing a maths game using interlocking cubes. Can you help them record what happened?
Have a look at this table of how children travel to school. How does it compare with children in your class?
Use the interactivity to help get a feel for this problem and to find out all the possible ways the balls could land.
What information do you need to know to set up a healthy snack shop for your class?
Investigate how avalanches occur and how they can be controlled
This activity asks you to collect information about the birds you see in the garden. Are there patterns in the data or do the birds seem to visit randomly?
This article for teachers looks at some suggestions taken from the NRICH website that offer a broad view of data and ask some more probing questions about it.
In this problem you will do your own poll to find out whether your friends think two squares on a board are the same colour or not.
Florence Nightingale may be well known for her role as a nurse, but she was also an excellent mathematician, collecting and analysing data to help improve hospital conditions.
Terry and Ali are playing a game with three balls. Is it fair that Terry wins when the middle ball is red?
Written for teachers, this article discusses mathematical representations and takes, in the second part of the article, examples of reception children's own representations.