These activities are part of our Primary collections, which are problems grouped by topic.
Doubling fives
This activity focuses on doubling multiples of five.
Double or halve?
Always, sometimes or never?
Are these statements relating to odd and even numbers always true, sometimes true or never true?
Birthday sharing
Tables teaser
I'm eight
Catrina's cards
Number detective
Follow the clues to find the mystery number.
Share bears
Are you well balanced?
Clapping times
Growing garlic
Ben and his mum are planting garlic. Can you find out how many cloves of garlic they might have had?
Lots of biscuits!
Help share out the biscuits the children have made.
Even and odd
Our numbers
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?
Ip dip
"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 ...?
Two numbers under the microscope
Which symbol?
Magic plant
On Friday the magic plant was only 2 centimetres tall. Every day it doubled its height. How tall was it on Monday?
Make 37
Four bags contain a large number of 1s, 3s, 5s and 7s. Can you pick any ten numbers from the bags so that their total is 37?
Ring a ring of numbers
How odd
Odd times even
The amazing splitting plant
Can you work out how many flowers there will be on the Amazing Splitting Plant after it has been growing for six weeks?
The tomato and the bean
At the beginning of May, Tom put his tomato plant outside. On the same day he sowed a bean in another pot. When will the two be the same height?
Lots of lollies
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?
More numbers in the ring