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.

The last day for sending in solutions to the live problems is Monday 1 February.

Seesaw Shenaniganslive

Age 3 to 7 Challenge Level:

A group of animals has made a seesaw in the woods. How can you make the seesaw balance?

Equivalent Pairslive

Age 5 to 7 Challenge Level:

Can you match pairs of cards which show the same amount?

Number Balancelive

Age 5 to 7 Challenge Level:

Can you hang weights in the right place to make the the number balance balanced?

Are You Well Balanced?live

Age 5 to 7 Challenge Level:

Can you work out how to make each side of this balance equally balanced? You can put more than one weight on a hook.

Sweetie Boxlive

Age 5 to 11 Challenge Level:

Max and Bryony both have a box of sweets. What do you know about the number of sweets they each have?

True or False?live

Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:

Without doing lots of calculations, can you decide which of these number sentences are true? How do you know?

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