Young children are often good at imagining - in these tasks we ask them to use their imaginations in a mathematical way.
This collection is one of our Primary Curriculum collections - tasks that are grouped by topic.
Cover the camel
Holes
I've made some cubes and some cubes with holes in. This challenge invites you to explore the difference in the number of small cubes I've used. Can you see any patterns?
How would we count?
An activity centred around observations of dots and how we visualise number arrangement patterns.
Paper patchwork 1
Can you work out what shape is made when this piece of paper is folded up using the crease pattern shown?
Paper partners
Can you describe a piece of paper clearly enough for your partner to know which piece it is?
Seeing squares
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.
How many?
Skeleton shapes
How many balls of modelling clay and how many straws does it take to make these skeleton shapes?
Hundred square
A hundred square has been printed on both sides of a piece of paper. What is on the back of 100? 58? 23? 19?
Overlaps
What does the overlap of these two shapes look like? Try picturing it in your head and then use some cut-out shapes to test your prediction.
Cubes cut into four pieces
Shadow play
Here are shadows of some 3D shapes. What shapes could have made them?
Happy halving
Can you split each of the shapes below in half so that the two parts are exactly the same?
Arranging cubes
A task which depends on members of the group working collaboratively to reach a single goal.