This project challenges you to work out the number of cubes hidden under a cloth. What questions would you like to ask?
Vincent and Tara are making triangles with the class construction set. They have a pile of strips of different lengths. How many different triangles can they make?
In this town, houses are built with one room for each person. There are some families of seven people living in the town. In how many different ways can they build their houses?
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?
How would you find out how many football cards Catrina has collected?
Sort the houses in my street into different groups. Can you do it in any other ways?
Can you sort these triangles into three different families and explain how you did it?
Mr Gilderdale is playing a game with his class. What rule might he have chosen? How would you test your idea?
Can you create symmetrical designs by cutting a square into strips?
Two children made up a game as they walked along the garden paths. Can you find out their scores? Can you find some paths of your own?
Shapes are added to other shapes. Can you see what is happening? What is the rule?
This box does something to the numbers that go into it. If you know the numbers that come out, what might be going on inside the box?
What patterns can you make with a set of dominoes?
Here is a selection of different shapes. Can you work out which ones are triangles, and why?
How will you work out which numbers have been used to create this multiplication square?
Can you spot the mistake in this video? How would you work out the answer to this calculation?
Explore ways of colouring this set of triangles. Can you make symmetrical patterns?
In this activity, shapes can be arranged by changing either the colour or the shape each time. Can you find a way to do it?
Choose four of the numbers from 1 to 9 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?
Annie and Ben are playing a game with a calculator. What was Annie's secret number?
These caterpillars have 16 parts. What different shapes do they make if each part lies in the small squares of a 4 by 4 square?
Investigate which numbers make these lights come on. What is the smallest number you can find that lights up all the lights?
Use the information about Sally and her brother to find out how many children there are in the Brown family.
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?
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?
Follow the clues to find the mystery number.
Use your addition and subtraction skills, combined with some strategic thinking, to beat your partner at this game.
Sweets are given out to party-goers in a particular way. Investigate the total number of sweets received by people sitting in different positions.
Can you place these quantities in order from smallest to largest?
