Primary Live Problems

Each time you visit the NRICH site there will be some activities which are 'live'. That means we are inviting you and your students to send us solutions and we will publish a selection of them, along with your students' names and school, in a few weeks' time. If you'd like to know more about what we're looking for, read this short article.

Please note that these activities will stop being live after Monday 13 May.

Tables Teaserlive

Age 5 to 7 Challenge Level:

How will you work out which numbers have been used to create this multiplication square?

Starfish Spottinglive

Age 5 to 7 Challenge Level:

How many starfish could there be on the beach, and how many children, if I can see 28 arms?

I'm Eightlive

Age 5 to 11 Challenge Level:

Find a great variety of ways of asking questions which make 8.

Looking at Legolive

Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:

This task offers an opportunity to explore all sorts of number relationships, but particularly multiplication.

Multiplication Square Jigsawlive

Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:

Can you complete this jigsaw of the multiplication square?

Shape Times Shapelive

Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:

These eleven shapes each stand for a different number. Can you use the number sentences to work out what they are?

Missing Multiplierslive

Age 7 to 14 Challenge Level:

What is the smallest number of answers you need to reveal in order to work out the missing headers?

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