During the summer, we published a collection of challenges, which we hope your students enjoyed. Below we have selected some of the tasks that we think are particularly suitable for the start of term, when you are getting to
know your learners. They offer the chance to do some exploratory collaborative work at a range of levels.
The tasks feature in our Primary curriculum mapping document, which contains links to a variety of problems for teachers wishing to embed rich mathematical tasks into their everyday teaching.
Robot Monsters
Age 5 to 7
Challenge Level
Use these head, body and leg pieces to make Robot Monsters which are different heights.
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?
Seeing Squares
Age 5 to 11
Challenge Level
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.
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?
Mystery Matrix
Age 7 to 11
Challenge Level
Can you fill in this table square? The numbers 2 -12 were used to generate it with just one number used twice.
NRICH is part of the family of activities in the Millennium Mathematics Project.