Year 2 Being resilient

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?

How many different triangles can you draw which each have one dot in the middle?

Which two items of fruit could Kate and Sam choose? What would it cost?

Noah saw 12 legs walk by into the Ark. How many creatures did he see?

What numbers can you make by putting beads onto this tens and ones abacus?

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?

What do you notice about these squares of numbers? What is the same? What is different?

There are ladybirds with 7 spots or 4 spots in this garden. What numbers of total spots can you make?

As you come down the ladders of the Tall Tower you collect useful spells. How many can you collect?

Tim had nine cards. How could he have put them into three piles so that the total in each pile was 15?

How many different ways can you find to join three equilateral triangles together? Can you convince us that you have found them all?

Use five steps to count forwards or backwards in 1s or 10s to get to 50. What strategies did you use?

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?

This is a game for two players. Can you find out how to be the first to get to 12 o'clock?

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?

This game involves addition and subtraction skills combined with some strategic thinking.

The computer has made a rectangle and will tell you the number of spots it uses in total. Can you find out where the rectangle is?

Ben has five coins in his pocket. How much money might he have?

What could each of the children buy in the sweet shop?

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

How many possible symmetrical necklaces can you find? How do you know you've found them all?