Year 2 Being resourceful

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?

How would you find out how many football cards Catrina has collected?

We have a box of cubes, triangular prisms, cones, cuboids, cylinders and tetrahedrons. Which of the buildings would fall down if we tried to make them?

Some children were playing a game. Make a graph or picture to show how many ladybirds each child had.

If you count from 1 to 20 and clap more loudly on the numbers in the two times table, as well as saying those numbers loudly, which numbers will be loud?

Use the interactivity to find out how many quarter turns the man must rotate through to look like each of the pictures.

Can you sort these triangles into three different families and explain how you did it?

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

Try continuing these patterns made from triangles. Can you create your own repeating pattern?

You have a set of the digits from 0 to 9. Can you arrange these in the five boxes to make two-digit numbers as close to the targets as possible?

This activity is best done with a whole class or in a large group. Can you match the cards? What happens when you add pairs of the numbers together?

These spinners will give you the tens and unit digits of a number. Can you choose sets of numbers to collect so that you spin six numbers belonging to your sets in as few spins as possible?

Daisy and Akram have made some number patterns. Can you find out which pattern is longer?

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?

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?'.

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?

This investigates one particular property of number by looking closely at an example of adding two odd numbers together.

What patterns can you make with a set of dominoes?

This practical activity involves measuring length/distance.

What two-digit numbers can you make with these two dice? What can't you make?

This challenge is about finding the difference between numbers which have the same tens digit.

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

How could you estimate the number of pencils/pens in these pictures?

You'll need a collection of cups for this activity.

It's Sahila's birthday and she is having a party. How could you answer these questions using a picture, with things, with numbers or symbols?

Order these four calculations from easiest to hardest. How did you decide?

Can you spot the mistake in this video? How would you work out the answer to this calculation?

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

Explore ways of colouring this set of triangles. Can you make symmetrical patterns?