Year 2 Being curious

  • Order, Order!
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    Order, Order!

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    5 to 11
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    Can you place these quantities in order from smallest to largest?

  • Take three numbers
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    Take Three Numbers

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    5 to 11
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    What happens when you add three numbers together? Will your answer be odd or even? How do you know?

  • Carroll Diagrams
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    Carroll Diagrams

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    5 to 11
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    Use the interactivities to fill in these Carroll diagrams. How do you know where to place the numbers?

  • Digit Addition
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    Digit Addition

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    5 to 11
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    Try out this number trick. What happens with different starting numbers? What do you notice?

  • Make 37 Poster
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    Make 37

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    5 to 11
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    Four bags contain a large number of 1s, 3s, 5s and 7s. Can you pick ten numbers from the bags so that their total is 37?

  • Hundred Square Poster
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    Hundred Square

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    5 to 11
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    A hundred square has been printed on both sides of a piece of paper. What is on the back of 100? 58? 23? 19?

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    How Odd

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    5 to 11
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    This problem challenges you to find out how many odd numbers there are between pairs of numbers. Can you find a pair of numbers that has four odds between them?