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Dotty Six for Two
game

Dotty six for two

Age
5 to 11
Challenge level
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Dotty Six game for an adult and child. Will you be the first to have three sixes in a straight line?

problem

Biscuit decorations

Age
5 to 7
Challenge level
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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?

Next Domino
problem

Next domino

Age
5 to 7
Challenge level
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Which comes next in each pattern of dominoes?

Domino Sequences
problem

Domino sequences

Age
5 to 7
Challenge level
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Find the next two dominoes in these sequences.

Even and odd
problem

Even and odd

Age
5 to 7
Challenge level
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This activity is best done with a whole class or in a large group. Can you match the cards? What happens when you add pairs of the numbers together?

Number match
problem

Number match

Age
5 to 7
Challenge level
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Can you work as a group to match these numbers?

Dotty Six
problem

Dotty six

Age
5 to 11
Challenge level
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Dotty Six is a simple dice game that you can adapt in many ways.

Largest Even
problem

Largest even

Age
5 to 11
Challenge level
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How would you create the largest possible two-digit even number from the digit I've given you and one of your choice?

How would we count?
problem

How would we count?

Age
5 to 11
Challenge level
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An activity centred around observations of dots and how we visualise number arrangement patterns.

problem

Domino patterns

Age
5 to 7
Challenge level
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What patterns can you make with a set of dominoes?

Missing Middles
problem

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?

Making Sticks
problem

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?

Hundred Square Poster
problem

Hundred square

Age
5 to 11
Challenge level
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A hundred square has been printed on both sides of a piece of paper. What is on the back of 100? 58? 23? 19?

Ring a Ring of Numbers
problem

Ring a ring of numbers

Age
5 to 7
Challenge level
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Choose four of the numbers from 1 to 9 to put in the squares so that the differences between joined squares are odd.

problem

How odd

Age
5 to 7
Challenge level
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This problem challenges you to find out how many odd numbers there are between pairs of numbers. Can you find a pair of numbers that has four odds between them?

Lots of Lollies
problem

Lots of lollies

Age
5 to 7
Challenge level
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Frances and Rishi were given a bag of lollies. They shared them out evenly and had one left over. How many lollies could there have been in the bag?