This collection is one of our Primary Curriculum collections - tasks that are grouped by topic.
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Number match
Age
5 to 11
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A task which depends on members of the group noticing the needs of others and responding.
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Reasoned Rounding
Age
7 to 14
Challenge level
Four strategy dice games to consolidate pupils' understanding of rounding.
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Less is More
Age
7 to 11
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Use your knowledge of place value to try to win this game. How will you maximise your score?
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Dicey Operations in Line
Who said that adding, subtracting, multiplying and dividing couldn't be fun?
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Which Scripts?
Age
7 to 11
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There are six numbers written in five different scripts. Can you sort out which is which?
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The Deca Tree
Age
7 to 11
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Find out what a Deca Tree is and then work out how many leaves there will be after the woodcutter has cut off a trunk, a branch, a twig and a leaf.
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The Thousands Game
Age
7 to 11
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Each child in Class 3 took four numbers out of the bag. Who had made the highest even number?
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Number Differences
Age
7 to 11
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Place the numbers from 1 to 9 in the squares below so that the difference between joined squares is odd. How many different ways can you do this?
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Magic Vs
Age
7 to 11
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Can you put the numbers 1-5 in the V shape so that both 'arms' have the same total?
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Four-digit targets
Age
7 to 11
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You have two sets of the digits 0-9. Can you arrange these in the five boxes to make four-digit numbers as close to the target numbers as possible?
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Coded hundred square
Age
7 to 11
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This 100 square jigsaw is written in code. It starts with 1 and ends with 100. Can you build it up?
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Nice or Nasty
Age
7 to 14
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There are nasty versions of this dice game but we'll start with the nice ones...
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Take three numbers
Age
7 to 11
Challenge level
What happens when you add three numbers together? Will your answer be odd or even? How do you know?
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Round the Four Dice
Age
7 to 11
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This activity involves rounding four-digit numbers to the nearest thousand.
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Round the Three Dice
Age
7 to 11
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What happens when you round these three-digit numbers to the nearest 100?
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Number Lines in Disguise
Age
7 to 14
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Some of the numbers have fallen off Becky's number line. Can you figure out what they were?
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