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As you come down the ladders of the Tall Tower you collect useful spells. Which way should you go to collect the most spells?
Move from the START to the FINISH by moving across or down to the next square. Can you find a route to make these totals?
In your bank, you have three types of coins. The number of spots shows how much they are worth. Can you choose coins to exchange with the groups given to make the same total?
Use these head, body and leg pieces to make Robot Monsters which are different heights.
Place this "worm" on the 100 square and find the total of the four squares it covers. Keeping its head in the same place, what other totals can you make?
These caterpillars have 16 parts. What different shapes do they make if each part lies in the small squares of a 4 by 4 square?
Can you make a train the same length as Laura's but using three differently coloured rods? Is there only one way of doing it?
Twizzle, a female giraffe, needs transporting to another zoo. Which route will give the fastest journey?
Jack's mum bought some candles to use on his birthday cakes and when his sister was born, she used them on her cakes too. Can you use the information to find out when Kate was born?
Can you draw a continuous line through 16 numbers on this grid so that the total of the numbers you pass through is as high as possible?
Put operations signs between the numbers 3 4 5 6 to make the highest possible number and lowest possible number.
In this 100 square, look at the green square which contains the numbers 2, 3, 12 and 13. What is the sum of the numbers that are diagonally opposite each other? What do you notice?
These sixteen children are standing in four lines of four, one behind the other. They are each holding a card with a number on it. Can you work out the missing numbers?
Use the number weights to find different ways of balancing the equaliser.
Can you hang weights in the right place to make the equaliser balance?
Investigate what happens when you add house numbers along a street in different ways.
Complete these two jigsaws then put one on top of the other. What happens when you add the 'touching' numbers? What happens when you change the position of the jigsaws?
There are ten children in Becky's group. Can you find a set of numbers for each of them? Are there any other sets?
How have the numbers been placed in this Carroll diagram? Which labels would you put on each row and column?
Use the interactivities to fill in these Carroll diagrams. How do you know where to place the numbers?
Can you put the numbers from 1 to 15 on the circles so that no consecutive numbers lie anywhere along a continuous straight line?
Can you each work out the number on your card? What do you notice? How could you sort the cards?
There are nasty versions of this dice game but we'll start with the nice ones...
Each child in Class 3 took four numbers out of the bag. Who had made the highest even number?
Can you work out the domino pieces which would go in the middle in each case to complete the pattern of these eight sets of 3 dominoes?
How would you create the largest possible two-digit even number from the digit I've given you and one of your choice?
Don't get rid of your old calendars! You can get a lot more mathematical mileage out of them before they are thrown away. These activities, using cut up dates from the calendar, provide numbers to. . . .
Can you see how these factor-multiple chains work? Find the chain which contains the smallest possible numbers. How about the largest possible numbers?
How can you arrange these 10 matches in four piles so that when you move one match from three of the piles into the fourth, you end up with the same arrangement?
Would you rather: Have 10% of £5 or 75% of 80p? Be given 60% of 2 pizzas or 26% of 5 pizzas?
This list offers an introduction to fractions that will help children to develop an understanding of fractions and approaches to solving problems using them.
Buzzy Bee was building a honeycomb. She decided to decorate the honeycomb with a pattern using numbers. Can you discover Buzzy's pattern and fill in the empty cells for her?
Use the fraction wall to compare the size of these fractions - you'll be amazed how it helps!
Can you complete this jigsaw of the multiplication square?
Find the exact difference between the largest ball and the smallest ball on the Hepta Tree and then use this to work out the MAGIC NUMBER!
Some children have been doing different tasks. Can you see who was the winner?
There are six numbers written in five different scripts. Can you sort out which is which?
Look at some of the results from the Olympic Games in the past. How do you compare if you try some similar activities?
Look at the changes in results on some of the athletics track events at the Olympic Games in 1908 and 1948. Compare the results for 2012.
Mr Gilderdale is playing a game with his class. What rule might he have chosen? How would you test your idea?
Try some throwing activities and see whether you can throw something as far as the Olympic hammer or discus throwers.
Once a basic number sense has developed for numbers up to ten, a strong 'sense of ten' needs to be developed as a foundation for both place value and mental calculations.
A fun game with numbers and cards, for 2-6 players.
Can you complete this jigsaw of the 100 square?
These interactive dominoes can be dragged around the screen.
Who said that adding, subtracting, multiplying and dividing couldn't be fun?
Use the interactivities to complete these Venn diagrams.
Investigate which numbers make these lights come on. What is the smallest number you can find that lights up all the lights?