These activities are part of our Primary collections, which are problems grouped by topic.
Robot monsters
Same length trains
Tug of war
Can you use the numbers on the dice to reach your end of the number line before your partner beats you?
Two-digit targets
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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Count the digits
Largest even
All change
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?
How would we count?
An activity centred around observations of dots and how we visualise number arrangement patterns.
That number square
Five steps to 50
Count the crayons
Eightness of eight
Digit addition
Try out this number trick. What happens with different starting numbers? What do you notice?
How many?
Snail one hundred
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.
Biscuit decorations
Writing digits
Buzzy bee
Light the lights
Investigate which numbers make these lights come on. What is the smallest number you can find that lights up all the lights?
What's in a name?
Here's a very elementary code that requires young children to read a table, and look for similarities and differences.
6 beads
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?
Missing middles
Making sticks
Grouping goodies
Pat counts her sweets in different groups and both times she has some left over. How many sweets could she have had?