Being Resourceful - Lower Primary is part of our Being a Good Thinker - Lower Primary collection.
Good thinkers are resourceful and reflective. They think critically and can explain and justify the choices that they make. They become absorbed in what they are doing and show attention to detail. They look back on what they have done in order to learn from both successes and failures.
How can you become more resourceful?
These problems require careful consideration. Immerse yourself in them and appreciate that the journey is often as important as the destination!
You can browse through the Number, Measures, Geometry or Statistics collections, or scroll down to see the full set of problems below.
Good thinkers are resourceful and reflective. They think critically and can explain and justify the choices that they make. They become absorbed in what they are doing and show attention to detail. They look back on what they have done in order to learn from both successes and failures.
How can you become more resourceful?
These problems require careful consideration. Immerse yourself in them and appreciate that the journey is often as important as the destination!
You can browse through the Number, Measures, Geometry or Statistics collections, or scroll down to see the full set of problems below.
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Being resourceful - Lower Primary Number
Number problems for lower primary that will get you thinking.
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Being resourceful - Lower Primary Measures
Measure problems for lower primary that will get you thinking.
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Being resourceful - Lower Primary Geometry
Geometry problems for lower primary that will get you thinking.
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Being resourceful - Lower Primary Statistics
Statistics problems for lower primary that will get you thinking.
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Biscuit decorations
Age
5 to 7
Challenge level
Andrew decorated 20 biscuits to take to a party. He lined them up and put icing on every second biscuit and different decorations on other biscuits. How many biscuits weren't decorated?
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Ladybird count
Age
5 to 7
Challenge level
Some children were playing a game. Make a graph or picture to show how many ladybirds each child had.
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Turning man
Age
5 to 7
Challenge level
Use the interactivity to find out how many quarter turns the man must rotate through to look like each of the pictures.
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Rolling that cube
Age
5 to 11
Challenge level
My dice has inky marks on each face. Can you find the route it has taken? What does each face look like?
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Shaping it
Age
5 to 11
Challenge level
These pictures were made by starting with a square, finding the half-way point on each side and joining those points up. You could investigate your own starting shape.
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Dotty six
Age
5 to 11
Challenge level
Dotty Six is a simple dice game that you can adapt in many ways.
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The animals' sports day
Age
5 to 7
Challenge level
One day five small animals in my garden were going to have a sports day. They decided to have a swimming race, a running race, a high jump and a long jump.
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Favourite
Five steps to 50
Age
5 to 7
Challenge level
Use five steps to count forwards or backwards in 1s or 10s to get to 50. What strategies did you use?
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Favourite
Heads and feet
Age
5 to 7
Challenge level
On a farm there were some hens and sheep. Altogether there were 8 heads and 22 feet. How many hens were there?
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Ring a ring of numbers
Age
5 to 7
Challenge level
Choose four of the numbers from 1 to 9 to put in the squares so that the differences between joined squares are odd.
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Wallpaper
Age
5 to 7
Challenge level
These pieces of wallpaper need to be ordered from smallest to largest. Can you find a way to do it?
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The tall tower
Age
5 to 7
Challenge level
As you come down the ladders of the Tall Tower you collect useful spells. Which way should you go to collect the most spells?
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Favourite
More numbers in the ring
Age
5 to 7
Challenge level
If there are 3 squares in the ring, can you place three different numbers in them so that their differences are odd? Try with different numbers of squares around the ring. What do you notice?
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Cubes
Age
7 to 11
Challenge level
How many faces can you see when you arrange these three cubes in different ways?
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Square it
Age
11 to 16
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.