Year 2 Being resourceful

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?

Pat counts her sweets in different groups and both times she has some left over. How many sweets could she have had?

On a farm there were some animals with 8 heads and 22 feet altogether. How many hens were there?

How many balls of modelling clay and how many straws does it take to make these skeleton shapes?

There are three baskets holding a total of 10 eggs. How many eggs are in each basket?

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

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?

Use the interactivity to help get a feel for this problem and to find out all the possible ways the balls could land.

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?

Which numbers make these lights come on? Do any numbers light up all the lights?

How many legs do each of these creatures have? How many pairs is that?

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

Can you work out how many flowers there will be on this plant after six weeks?

Tom had a tomato plant and he sowed a bean seed. When will the two plants be the same height?

Complete the squares - but be warned some are trickier than they look!

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

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

"Ip dip sky blue! Who's 'it'? It's you!" Where would you position yourself to be chosen?

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

How would you create the largest possible two-digit even number using the digit you're given?

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?

What happens when you add three numbers together? Will your answer be odd or even?

An activity centred around observations of dots and how we visualise number arrangement patterns.

This investigation involving the four operations looks at doing and undoing.

Here are some arrangements of circles. How many circles would I need to make the next size up for each? Can you create your own arrangement and investigate the number of circles it needs?

In these addition games, you'll need to think strategically to get closest to the target.

Are these statements relating to odd and even numbers always, sometimes or never true?

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

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

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