Problem Solving

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

At the beginning of May, Tom put his tomato plant outside. On the same day he sowed a bean in another pot. When will the two be the same height?

"Ip dip sky blue! Who's 'it'? It's you!" Where would you position yourself so that you are 'it' if there are two players? Three players ...?

Ben and his mum are planting garlic. Can you find out how many cloves of garlic they might have had?

Are these statements always true, sometimes true or never true?

You'll need to know your number properties to win a game of Statement Snap...

Put operations signs between the numbers 3, 4, 5 and 6 to make the highest possible number and lowest possible number.

Can you put the numbers 1 to 8 into the circles so that the four calculations are correct?

Think of a number, square it and subtract your starting number. Is the number you're left with odd or even? How do the images help to explain this?

This big box multiplies anything that goes inside it by the same number. If you know the numbers that come out, what multiplication might be going on in the box?