This is part of our collection of favourite rich tasks arranged by topic.
If you are a teacher, you can find the whole collection on our Primary Curriculum teacher page.
Alternatively, if you are a student, you'll find the same problems on our Primary Curriculum student page.
Some children were playing a game. Make a graph or picture to show how many ladybirds each child had.
Sort the houses in my street into different groups. Can you do it in any other ways?
Sara and Will were sorting some pictures of shapes on cards. "I'll collect the circles," said Sara. "I'll take the red ones," answered Will. Can you see any cards they would both want?
You'll need to work in a group on this problem. Use your sticky notes to show the answer to questions such as 'how many girls are there in your group?'.
Use the interactivity to help get a feel for this problem and to find out all the possible ways the balls could land.
Use the interactivities to fill in these Carroll diagrams. How do you know where to place the numbers?
