Cambridge Primary Maths Mapping Stage 2

For more resources see the primary curriculum mapping documents.

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Turning man

Age

5 to 7

Challenge level

Use the interactivity to find out how many quarter turns the man must rotate through to look like each of the pictures.

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Turning

Age

5 to 7

Challenge level

Use your mouse to move the red and green parts of this disc. Can you make images which show the turnings described?

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Data shapes

Age

5 to 7

Challenge level

Sara and Will were sorting some pictures of shapes on cards. "I'll collect the circles," said Sara. "I'll take the red ones," answered Will. Can you see any cards they would both want?

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Opening patterns

Age

5 to 7

Challenge level

Look at some of the patterns in the Olympic Opening ceremonies and see what shapes you can spot.

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Tangrams

Age

5 to 11

Challenge level

Can you make five differently sized squares from the interactive tangram pieces?

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Colouring triangles

Age

5 to 7

Challenge level

Explore ways of colouring this set of triangles. Can you make symmetrical patterns?

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Skeleton shapes

Age

5 to 7

Challenge level

How many balls of modelling clay and how many straws does it take to make these skeleton shapes?

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Shadow play

Age

5 to 7

Challenge level

Here are shadows of some 3D shapes. What shapes could have made them?

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Matching time

Age

5 to 7

Challenge level

Try this matching game which will help you recognise different ways of saying the same time interval.

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Car journey

Age

5 to 7

Challenge level

This practical activity involves measuring length/distance.

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Bottles (2)

Age

5 to 7

Challenge level

In this activity focusing on capacity, you will need a collection of different jars and bottles.

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Sizing them up

Age

5 to 7

Challenge level

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

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Can you do it too?

Age

5 to 7

Challenge level

Try some throwing activities and see whether you can throw something as far as the Olympic hammer or discus throwers.

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Who can be the winner?

Age

5 to 7

Challenge level

Some children have been doing different tasks. Can you see who was the winner?

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Making sticks

Age

5 to 7

Challenge level

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?

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Little man

Age

5 to 7

Challenge level

The Man is much smaller than us. Can you use the picture of him next to a mug to estimate his height and how much tea he drinks?

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Time line

Age

5 to 7

Challenge level

Describe what Emma might be doing from these pictures of clocks which show important times in her day.

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This puzzling sweet shop

Age

7 to 11

Challenge level

There were chews for 2 cents, mini eggs for 3 cents, Chocko bars for 5 cents and lollypops for 7 cents in the sweet shop. What could each of the children buy with their money?

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Are you well balanced?

Age

5 to 7

Challenge level

Can you work out how to make each side of this balance equally balanced? You can put more than one weight on a hook.

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Clapping times

Age

5 to 7

Challenge level

If you count from 1 to 20 and clap more loudly on the numbers in the two times table, as well as saying those numbers loudly, which numbers will be loud?

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100 square jigsaw

Age

5 to 7

Challenge level

Can you complete this jigsaw of the 100 square?

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Two-digit targets

Age

5 to 7

Challenge level

You have a set of the digits from 0 to 9. Can you arrange these in the five boxes to make two-digit numbers as close to the targets as possible?

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Strike it out

Age

5 to 11

Challenge level

Use your addition and subtraction skills, combined with some strategic thinking, to beat your partner at this game.

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Sort them out (1)

Age

5 to 7

Challenge level

Can you each work out the number on your card? What do you notice? How could you sort the cards?

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Cube bricks and daisy chains

Age

5 to 7

Challenge level

Daisy and Akram were making number patterns. Daisy was using beads that looked like flowers and Akram was using cube bricks. First they were counting in twos.

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The add and take-away path

Age

5 to 7

Challenge level

Two children made up a game as they walked along the garden paths. Can you find out their scores? Can you find some paths of your own?

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Largest even

Age

5 to 11

Challenge level

How would you create the largest possible two-digit even number from the digit I've given you and one of your choice?

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Different sizes

Age

5 to 11

Challenge level

A simple visual exploration into halving and doubling.

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How would we count?

Age

5 to 11

Challenge level

An activity centred around observations of dots and how we visualise number arrangement patterns.

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That number square

Age

5 to 11

Challenge level

Exploring the structure of a number square: how quickly can you put the number tiles in the right place on the grid?

game

Favourite

Snail one hundred

Age

5 to 7

Challenge level

In this game, you throw a dice and move counters along the snail's body and in a spiral around the snail's shell. It is about understanding tens and ones.

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Round the two dice

Age

5 to 7

Challenge level

This activity focuses on rounding to the nearest 10.

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Unit differences

Age

5 to 7

Challenge level

This challenge is about finding the difference between numbers which have the same tens digit.

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Constant counting

Age

5 to 7

Challenge level

You can make a calculator count for you by any number you choose. You can count by ones to reach 24. You can count by twos to reach 24. What else can you count by to reach 24?

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Skip counting

Age

5 to 7

Challenge level

Find the squares that Froggie skips onto to get to the pumpkin patch. She starts on 3 and finishes on 30, but she lands only on a square that has a number 3 more than the square she skips from.

Two flowers with the numbers 15 and 16 on them

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Butterfly flowers

Age

5 to 7

Challenge level

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?

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Wallpaper

Age

5 to 7

Challenge level

These pieces of wallpaper need to be ordered from smallest to largest. Can you find a way to do it?

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Secret number

Age

5 to 7

Challenge level

Annie and Ben are playing a game with a calculator. What was Annie's secret number?

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Bugs in the garden

Age

5 to 7

Challenge level

In Sam and Jill's garden there are two sorts of bugs with 7 spots or 4 spots. What numbers of total spots can you make?

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Noah

Age

5 to 7

Challenge level

Noah saw 12 legs walk by into the Ark. How many creatures did he see?

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Magic plant

Age

5 to 7

Challenge level

On Friday the magic plant was only 2 centimetres tall. Every day it doubled its height. How tall was it on Monday?

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Making sticks

Age

5 to 7

Challenge level

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?

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What number?

Age

5 to 7

Challenge level

I am less than 25. My ones digit is twice my tens digit. My digits add up to an even number.

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Halving

Age

5 to 7

Challenge level

These pictures show squares split into halves. Can you find other ways?

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Queue

Age

5 to 7

Challenge level

25 students are queuing in a straight line. How many are there between Julia and Jenny?

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Making shapes

Age

5 to 7

Challenge level

Arrange any number of counters from these 18 on the grid to make a rectangle. What numbers of counters make rectangles? How many different rectangles can you make with each number of counters?

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2, 4, 6, 8

Age

5 to 7

Challenge level

Using the cards 2, 4, 6, 8, +, - and =, what number statements can you make?

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Grouping goodies

Age

5 to 7

Challenge level

Pat counts her sweets in different groups and both times she has some left over. How many sweets could she have had?

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Coded hundred square

Age

7 to 11

Challenge level

This 100 square jigsaw is written in code. It starts with 1 and ends with 100. Can you build it up?

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Which symbol?

Age

7 to 11

Challenge level

Choose a symbol to put into the number sentence.

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Fingers and hands

Age

7 to 11

Challenge level

How would you count the number of fingers in these pictures?

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Let us divide!

Age

7 to 11

Challenge level

Look at different ways of dividing things. What do they mean? How might you show them in a picture, with things, with numbers and symbols?

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Sticky data

Age

5 to 7

Challenge level

You'll need to work in a group on this problem. Use your sticky notes to show the answer to questions such as 'how many girls are there in your group?'.

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