Being collaborative - Primary all resources

Can you each work out what shape you have part of on your card? What will the rest of it look like?

In these addition games, you'll need to think strategically to get closest to the target.

Can you describe a piece of paper clearly enough for your partner to know which piece it is?

Can you place these quantities in order from smallest to largest?

Are these statements relating to odd and even numbers always true, sometimes true or never true?

Vincent and Tara are making triangles with the class construction set. They have a pile of strips of different lengths. How many different triangles can they make?

Are these statements relating to calculation and properties of shapes always true, sometimes true or never true?

Cut four triangles from a square as shown in the picture. How many different shapes can you make by fitting the four triangles back together?

Can you cover the camel with these pieces?

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

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

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.

This activity challenges you to decide on the 'best' number to use in each statement. You may need to do some estimating, some calculating and some research.

Use the interactivities to fill in these Carroll diagrams. How do you know where to place the numbers?

There are three versions of this challenge. The idea is to change the colour of all the spots on the grid. Can you do it in fewer throws of the dice?

Can you lay out the pictures of the drinks in the way described by the clue cards?

Create a pattern on the small grid. How could you extend your pattern on the larger grid?

Make one big triangle so the numbers that touch on the small triangles add to 10.

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?

Ben and his mum are planting garlic. Can you find out how many cloves of garlic they might have had?

A group of children are discussing the height of a tall tree. How would you go about finding out its height?

Can you sort these triangles into three different families and explain how you did it?

This task requires learners to explain and help others, asking and answering questions.

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?

This activity is based on data in the book 'If the World Were a Village'. How will you represent your chosen data for maximum effect?

Try out this number trick. What happens with different starting numbers? What do you notice?

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?

"Ip dip sky blue! Who's 'it'? It's you!" Where would you position yourself so that you are 'it' if there are two players? Three players ...?

Which two items of fruit could Kate and Sam choose? Can you order the prices from lowest to highest?

In how many different ways can you break up a stick of seven interlocking cubes? Now try with a stick of eight cubes and a stick of six cubes. What do you notice?

Here are some short problems for you to try. Talk to your friends about how you work them out.

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

How will you complete these interactive Venn diagrams?

Use these head, body and leg pieces to make Robot Monsters which are different heights.

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

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

If you put three beads onto a tens/ones abacus you can make the numbers 3, 30, 12 or 21. What numbers can be made with six beads?

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

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

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

Arrange the shapes in a line so that you change either colour or shape in the next piece along. Can you find several ways to start with a blue triangle and end with a red circle?

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

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.

A hundred square has been printed on both sides of a piece of paper. What is on the back of 100? 58? 23? 19?

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

Eight children each had a cube made from modelling clay. They cut them into four pieces which were all exactly the same shape and size. Whose pieces are the same? Can you decide who made each set?

This is a game for two players. Can you find out how to be the first to get to 12 o'clock?

Use the information on these cards to draw the shape that is being described.

In this activity, the computer chooses a times table and shifts it. Can you work out the table and the shift each time?

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 planet of Vuvv has seven moons. Can you work out how long it is between each super-eclipse?

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

This group activity will encourage you to share calculation strategies and to think about which strategy might be the most efficient.

Find the missing coordinates which will form these eight quadrilaterals. These coordinates themselves will then form a shape with rotational and line symmetry.

Are these statements always true, sometimes true or never true?

Can you work out the arrangement of the digits in the square so that the given products are correct? The numbers 1 - 9 may be used once and once only.

Watch the video to see how to fold a square of paper to create a flower. What fraction of the piece of paper is the small triangle?

Are these statements always true, sometimes true or never true?

How can you arrange the 5 cubes so that you need the smallest number of Brush Loads of paint to cover them? Try with other numbers of cubes as well.

Have a look at this table of how children travel to school. How does it compare with children in your class?