Exploring and noticing

  • Starfish Spotting
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    Starfish Spotting

    Age
    5 to 7
    Challenge level
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    How many starfish could there be on the beach, and how many children, if I can see 28 arms?

  • Amazing Alphabet Maze
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    Amazing Alphabet Maze

    Age
    5 to 7
    Challenge level
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    Can you go from A to Z right through the alphabet in the hexagonal maze?
  • Chain of Changes
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    Chain of Changes

    Age
    5 to 7
    Challenge level
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    In this activity, shapes can be arranged by changing either the colour or the shape each time. Can you find a way to do it?

  • Missing Middles
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    Missing Middles

    Age
    5 to 7
    Challenge level
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    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 three dominoes?

  • Five sticks of linked cubes of decreasing length, with the colours in rainbow order.
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    Making Sticks

    Age
    5 to 7
    Challenge level
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    Kimie and Sebastian were making sticks from interlocking cubes and lining them up. Can they make their lines the same length? Can they make any other lines?

  • An arrangement of dominoes.
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    Domino Join Up

    Age
    5 to 7
    Challenge level
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    Can you arrange fifteen dominoes so that all the touching domino pieces add to 6 and the ends join up? Can you make all the joins add to 7?

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    Birthday Cakes

    Age
    5 to 7
    Challenge level
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    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?

  • Heads and Feet
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    Heads and Feet

    Age
    5 to 7
    Challenge level
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    On a farm there were some hens and sheep. Altogether there were 8 heads and 22 feet. How many hens were there?

  • Find a Path
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    Find a Path

    Age
    5 to 7
    Challenge level
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    Can you find a path from a number at the top of this network to the bottom which goes through each number from 1 to 9 once and once only?