Cambridge primary maths mapping stage 3

This challenge invites you to create your own picture using just straight lines. Can you identify shapes with the same number of sides and decorate them in the same way?

This activity focuses on similarities and differences between shapes.

Can you help the children in Mrs Trimmer's class make different shapes out of a loop of string?

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.

Here are four cubes joined together. How many other arrangements of four cubes can you find? Can you draw them on dotty paper?

Here are the six faces of a cube - in no particular order. Here are three views of the cube. Can you deduce where the faces are in relation to each other and record them on the net of this cube?

Where can you put the mirror across the square so that you can still "see" the whole square? How many different positions are possible?

This task develops spatial reasoning skills. By framing and asking questions a member of the team has to find out what mathematical object they have chosen.

The ancient Egyptians were said to make right-angled triangles using a rope with twelve equal sections divided by knots. What other triangles could you make if you had a rope like this?

What shape is the overlap when you slide one of these shapes half way across another? Can you picture it in your head? Use the interactivity to check your visualisation.

A task which depends on members of the group noticing the needs of others and responding.

These spinners will give you the tens and unit digits of a number. Can you choose sets of numbers to collect so that you spin six numbers belonging to your sets in as few spins as possible?

Buzzy Bee was building a honeycomb. She decorated the honeycomb with a pattern using numbers. Can you discover Buzzy's pattern and fill in the empty cells for her?

Here is a picnic that Petros and Michael are going to share equally. Can you tell us what each of them will have?

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

Can you work out how many flowers there will be on the Amazing Splitting Plant after it has been growing for six weeks?

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?

Tom and Ben visited Numberland. Use the maps to work out the number of points each of their routes scores.

How many different shaped boxes can you design for 36 sweets in one layer? Can you arrange the sweets so that no sweets of the same colour are next to each other in any direction?

The value of the circle changes in each of the following problems. Can you discover its value in each problem?

There are nasty versions of this dice game but we'll start with the nice ones...

How will you complete these interactive Venn diagrams?

Class 5 were looking at the first letter of each of their names. They created different charts to show this information. Can you work out which member of the class was away on that day?

This problem explores the range of events in a sports day and which ones are the most popular and attract the most entries.

Look at some of the results from the Olympic Games in the past. How do you compare if you try some similar activities?