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?

Which two butterfly numbers add to make the flower number of 15? What about 16?

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?

Leah and Tom each have a number line. Can you work out where their counters will land?

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 group activity is all about representing and adding odd and even numbers.

Which special types of numbers will you make with these tens and ones spinners?

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

What score can you get on the add and take-away path?

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. What might be happening inside the box?

What happens when you add two odd numbers together?

What patterns can you make with a set of dominoes?

This practical activity involves measuring length/distance.

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?

Arrange the numbers 1 to 6 so that the sum of each side of the triangle equals the number in its centre.