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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?
How could you arrange at least two dice in a stack so that the total of the visible spots is 18?
Explore Alex's number plumber. What questions would you like to ask? What do you think is happening to the numbers?
Here are some short problems for you to try. Talk to your friends about how you work them out.
This challenging activity involves finding different ways to distribute fifteen items among four sets, when the sets must include three, four, five and six items.
This challenge extends the Plants investigation so now four or more children are involved.
How could you put these three beads into bags? How many different ways can you do it? How could you record what you've done?
In this article for teachers, Elizabeth Carruthers and Maulfry Worthington explore the differences between 'recording mathematics' and 'representing mathematical thinking'.
Help share out the biscuits the children have made.
Bernard Bagnall discusses the importance of valuing young children's mathematical representations in this article for teachers.
Have a go at this well-known challenge. Can you swap the frogs and toads in as few slides and jumps as possible?
Can you swap the black knights with the white knights in the minimum number of moves?
This article, written for teachers, looks at the different kinds of recordings encountered in Primary Mathematics lessons and the importance of not jumping to conclusions!
As you come down the ladders of the Tall Tower you collect useful spells. Which way should you go to collect the most spells?
Swap the stars with the moons, using only knights' moves (as on a chess board). What is the smallest number of moves possible?
Three children are going to buy some plants for their birthdays. They will plant them within circular paths. How could they do this?
