Exploring and noticing

Buzzy Bee was building a honeycomb. She decorated the honeycomb with a pattern using numbers. Can you discover Buzzy's pattern and fill in the empty cells for her?

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?

Find the next two dominoes in these sequences.

What do you notice about these squares of numbers? What is the same? What is different?

Some children were playing a game. Make a graph or picture to show how many ladybirds each child had.

Make a chair and table out of interlocking cubes, making sure that the chair fits under the table!

Can you cover the camel with these pieces?

Try grouping the dominoes in the ways described. Are there any left over each time? Can you explain why?

Can you put these shapes in order of size? Start with the smallest.

Sort the houses in my street into different groups. Can you do it in any other ways?