Catrina's Cards
How would you find out how many football cards Catrina has collected?
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How would you find out how many football cards Catrina has collected?
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Which special types of numbers will you make with these tens and ones spinners?
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What happens when you add two odd numbers together?
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How will you work out which numbers have been used to create this multiplication square?
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Yasmin and Zach have some bears to share. Which numbers of bears can they share so that there are none left over?
How many trains can you make which are the same length as Matt's and Katie's, using rods that are identical?
Which numbers can you put into pairs that add to 10? Which ones do you have to leave out?
In this calculation, the box represents a missing digit. What could the digit be?
What do you see as you watch this video? Can you create a similar video for the number 12?
On Friday the magic plant was only 2 centimetres tall. Every day it doubled its height. How tall was it on Monday?
Arrange the numbers 1 to 6 so that the sum of each side of the triangle equals the number in its centre.
Pat counts her sweets in different groups and both times she has some left over. How many sweets could she have had?
On a farm there were some animals with 8 heads and 22 feet altogether. How many hens were there?
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?
Choose four numbers to put in the squares so that the differences between joined squares are odd.
The Man is much smaller than us. Can you use the picture of him next to a mug to estimate his height and how much tea he drinks?
Ahmed is making rods using different numbers of cubes. Which rod is twice the length of his first rod?
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Which numbers make these lights come on? Do any numbers light up all the lights?
How many legs do each of these creatures have? How many pairs is that?
Can you work out how many flowers there will be on this plant after six weeks?
Tom had a tomato plant and he sowed a bean seed. When will the two plants be the same height?
Use the information about Sally and her brother to find out how many children there are in the Brown family.
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In how many different ways can you break up a stick of seven interlocking cubes? Now try with a stick of eight cubes and a stick of six cubes. What do you notice?
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Use the interactivities to fill in these Carroll diagrams. How do you know where to place the numbers?
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Ben and his mum are planting garlic. Can you find out how many cloves of garlic they might have had?