Andrew decorated 20 biscuits to take to a party. He lined them up and put icing on every second biscuit and different decorations on other biscuits. How many biscuits weren't decorated?
On Friday the magic plant was only 2 centimetres tall. Every day it doubled its height. How tall was it on Monday?
Place six toy ladybirds into the box so that there are two ladybirds in every column and every row.
Place the numbers 1 to 6 in the circles so that each number is the difference between the two numbers just below it.
What is the greatest number of squares you can make by overlapping three squares?
Ben has five coins in his pocket. How much money might he have?
Use the 'double-3 down' dominoes to make a square so that each side has eight dots.
Investigate all the different squares you can make on this 5 by 5 grid by making your starting side go from the bottom left hand point. Can you find out the areas of all these squares?
How many DIFFERENT quadrilaterals can be made by joining the dots on the 8-point circle?
Chris, Matt, Beh Sze, James and Jasmine all worked on this problem in a very systematic way.
Go to last month's problems to see more solutions.
Bernard Bagnall discusses the importance of valuing young children's mathematical representations in this article for teachers.
An old game but lots of arithmetic!