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Starting the year with rich tasks

During the summer, we published a collection of challenges, which we hope your students enjoyed. Below we have selected some of the tasks that we think are particularly suitable for the start of term, when you are getting to know your learners. They offer the chance to do some exploratory collaborative work at a range of levels.

The tasks feature in our Primary curriculum mapping document, which contains links to a variety of problems for teachers wishing to embed rich mathematical tasks into their everyday teaching.

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Primary summer challenges 2023

Age

5 to 11

A challenge a day throughout the summer break.

Two flowers with the numbers 15 and 16 on them

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Butterfly flowers

Age

5 to 7

Challenge level

Can you find two butterflies to go on each flower so that the numbers on each pair of butterflies adds to the number on their flower?

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Robot monsters

Age

5 to 7

Challenge level

Use these head, body and leg pieces to make Robot Monsters which are different heights.

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Seeing squares

Age

5 to 11

Challenge level

Players take it in turns to choose a dot on the grid. The winner is the first to have four dots that can be joined to form a square.

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Coded hundred square

Age

7 to 11

Challenge level

This 100 square jigsaw is written in code. It starts with 1 and ends with 100. Can you build it up?

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Mystery matrix

Age

7 to 11

Challenge level

Can you fill in this table square? The numbers 2 -12 were used to generate it with just one number used twice.