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Cambridge Primary Maths Mapping Stage 3

Buzzy Bee
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Buzzy bee

Age
5 to 7
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Buzzy Bee was building a honeycomb. She decorated the honeycomb with a pattern using numbers. Can you discover Buzzy's pattern and fill in the empty cells for her?
Fair Feast
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Fair feast

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5 to 11
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Here is a picnic that Petros and Michael are going to share equally. Can you tell us what each of them will have?

Strike it out
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Strike it out

Age
5 to 11
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Use your addition and subtraction skills, combined with some strategic thinking, to beat your partner at this game.

Fraction Match
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Fraction 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.

I Like ...
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I like ...

Age
5 to 7
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Mr Gilderdale is playing a game with his class. What rule might he have chosen? How would you test your idea?
Our Numbers
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Our numbers

Age
5 to 7
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These spinners will give you the tens and unit digits of a number. Can you choose sets of numbers to collect so that you spin six numbers belonging to your sets in as few spins as possible?

Beads and bags
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Beads and bags

Age
5 to 11
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How could you put these three beads into bags? How many different ways can you do it? How could you record what you've done?
Largest Even
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Largest even

Age
5 to 11
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How would you create the largest possible two-digit even number from the digit I've given you and one of your choice?
Doing and undoing
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Doing and undoing

Age
5 to 11
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An investigation looking at doing and undoing mathematical operations focusing on doubling, halving, adding and subtracting.
Count the Crayons
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Count the crayons

Age
5 to 7
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How could you estimate the number of pencils/pens in these pictures?
Domino Pick
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Domino pick

Age
5 to 7
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Are these domino games fair? Can you explain why or why not?
Jumping squares
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Jumping squares

Age
5 to 7
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In this problem it is not the squares that jump, you do the jumping! The idea is to go round the track in as few jumps as possible.
The Amazing Splitting Plant
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The amazing splitting plant

Age
5 to 7
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Can you work out how many flowers there will be on the Amazing Splitting Plant after it has been growing for six weeks?

Lots of Lollies
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Lots of lollies

Age
5 to 7
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Frances and Rishi were given a bag of lollies. They shared them out evenly and had one left over. How many lollies could there have been in the bag?

Sweets in a box
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Sweets in a box

Age
7 to 11
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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?

Highest and Lowest
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Highest and lowest

Age
7 to 11
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Put operations signs between the numbers 3 4 5 6 to make the highest possible number and lowest possible number.
Super Shapes
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Super shapes

Age
7 to 11
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The value of the circle changes in each of the following problems. Can you discover its value in each problem?

Number Tracks
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Number tracks

Age
7 to 11
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Ben's class were cutting up number tracks. First they cut them into twos and added up the numbers on each piece. What patterns could they see?
What Do you Need?
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What do you need?

Age
7 to 11
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Four of these clues are needed to find the chosen number on this grid and four are true but do nothing to help in finding the number. Can you sort out the clues and find the number?
Coded hundred square
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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?
Nice or Nasty
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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...
Fifteen cards
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Fifteen cards

Age
7 to 11
Challenge level
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Can you use the information to find out which cards I have used?
Journeying in Numberland
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Journeying in Numberland

Age
7 to 11
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Tom and Ben visited Numberland. Use the maps to work out the number of points each of their routes scores.

Worms
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Worms

Age
7 to 11
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Place this "worm" on the 100 square and find the total of the four squares it covers. Keeping its head in the same place, what other totals can you make?
A Numbered Route
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A numbered route

Age
7 to 11
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Can you draw a continuous line through 16 numbers on this grid so that the total of the numbers you pass through is as high as possible?
Shapely Lines
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Shapely lines

Age
5 to 7
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This challenge invites you to create your own picture using just straight lines. Can you identify shapes with the same number of sides and decorate them in the same way?

Sorting Logic Blocks
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Sorting logic blocks

Age
5 to 11
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This activity focuses on similarities and differences between shapes.

Rolling that cube
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Rolling that cube

Age
5 to 11
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My dice has inky marks on each face. Can you find the route it has taken? What does each face look like?
Describe the drawers
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Describe the drawers

Age
5 to 11
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Can you come up with a system for describing where any of these drawers are?
Mrs Trimmer's String
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Mrs Trimmer's string

Age
5 to 7
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Can you help the children in Mrs Trimmer's class make different shapes out of a loop of string?

Overlaps
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Overlaps

Age
5 to 7
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What does the overlap of these two shapes look like? Try picturing it in your head and then use some cut-out shapes to test your prediction.

The Third Dimension
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The third dimension

Age
5 to 11
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Here are four cubes joined together. How many other arrangements of four cubes can you find? Can you draw them on dotty paper?

A Puzzling Cube
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A puzzling cube

Age
7 to 11
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Here are the six faces of a cube - in no particular order. Here are three views of the cube. Can you deduce where the faces are in relation to each other and record them on the net of this cube?

Let Us Reflect
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Let us reflect

Age
7 to 11
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Where can you put the mirror across the square so that you can still "see" the whole square? How many different positions are possible?

Building Blocks
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Building blocks

Age
7 to 11
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Here are some pictures of 3D shapes made from cubes. Can you make these shapes yourself?
Tiles in a public building
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Tiles in a public building

Age
7 to 11
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What is the same and what is different about these tiling patterns and how do they contribute to the floor as a whole?
What shape?
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What shape?

Age
7 to 14
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This task develops spatial reasoning skills. By framing and asking questions a member of the team has to find out what mathematical object they have chosen.
National Flags
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National flags

Age
7 to 11
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This problem explores the shapes and symmetries in some national flags.
Egyptian Rope
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Egyptian rope

Age
7 to 11
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The ancient Egyptians were said to make right-angled triangles using a rope with twelve equal sections divided by knots. What other triangles could you make if you had a rope like this?

Overlapping Again
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Overlapping again

Age
7 to 11
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What shape is the overlap when you slide one of these shapes half way across another? Can you picture it in your head? Use the interactivity to check your visualisation.
Shaping It
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Shaping it

Age
5 to 11
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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.
What is the time?
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What is the time?

Age
5 to 11
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Can you put these times on the clocks in order? You might like to arrange them in a circle.
Measure our heights
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Measure our heights

Age
5 to 7
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How could you measure the height of your friend without too much difficulty?
Measure our weights
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Measure our weights

Age
5 to 7
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This practical challenge focuses on what you would use to find out your weight.
Five Coins
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Five coins

Age
5 to 11
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Ben has five coins in his pocket. How much money might he have?
Olympic Starters
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Olympic starters

Age
7 to 11
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Look at some of the results from the Olympic Games in the past. How do you compare if you try some similar activities?

How Much?
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How much?

Age
7 to 11
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Use your logical-thinking skills to deduce how much Dan's crisps and ice-cream cost altogether.
Venn diagrams
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Venn diagrams

Age
5 to 11
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How will you complete these interactive Venn diagrams?

Class 5's names
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Class 5's names

Age
7 to 11
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Class 5 were looking at the first letter of each of their names. They created different charts to show this information. Can you work out which member of the class was away on that day?

Our Sports
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Our sports

Age
7 to 11
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This problem explores the range of events in a sports day and which ones are the most popular and attract the most entries.