### Pebbles

Place four pebbles on the sand in the form of a square. Keep adding as few pebbles as necessary to double the area. How many extra pebbles are added each time?

### Sweets in a Box

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?

### Maze 100

Can you go through this maze so that the numbers you pass add to exactly 100?

# Balance of Halves

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Before you try this activity, you might like to have a go at Number Balance and Getting the Balance, if you haven't already.

Here is a balance, or equaliser, which you might like to investigate:

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Now, what about a balance that has halves on it?

Imagine we hung a weight on the number 7 on the left-hand side. Let's say we can only use the "halves" on the right. Which two numbers on the right-hand side could you hang weights from so that it would balance?

For example, you might have a weight on the $\frac{1}{2}$ and the $6\frac{1}{2}$.

Where else could you hang two weights on the right-hand side to make it balanced?

You can set yourselves all kinds of problems with this new set-up.