Year 3 Being curious

  • Strike it out
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    Strike it out

    Age
    5 to 11
    Challenge level
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    Use your addition and subtraction skills, combined with some strategic thinking, to beat your partner at this game.

  • If the World Were a Village
    problem

    If the world were a village

    Age
    5 to 11
    Challenge level
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    This activity is based on data in the book 'If the World Were a Village'. How will you represent your chosen data for maximum effect?

  • Which Scripts?
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    Which scripts?

    Age
    7 to 11
    Challenge level
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    There are six numbers written in five different scripts. Can you sort out which is which?

  • problem

    How many times?

    Age
    7 to 11
    Challenge level
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    On a digital 24 hour clock, at certain times, all the digits are consecutive. How many times like this are there between midnight and 7 a.m.?

  • Square Corners
    problem

    Square corners

    Age
    7 to 11
    Challenge level
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    What is the greatest number of counters you can place on the grid below without four of them lying at the corners of a square?

  • Number Differences
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    Number differences

    Age
    7 to 11
    Challenge level
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    Place the numbers from 1 to 9 in the squares below so that the difference between joined squares is odd. How many different ways can you do this?
  • Coded hundred square
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    Coded hundred square

    Age
    7 to 11
    Challenge level
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    This 100 square jigsaw is written in code. It starts with 1 and ends with 100. Can you build it up?

  • Follow the numbers
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    Follow the numbers

    Age
    7 to 11
    Challenge level
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    What happens when you add the digits of a number then multiply the result by 2 and you keep doing this? You could try for different numbers and different rules.

  • Amy's Dominoes
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    Amy's dominoes

    Age
    7 to 11
    Challenge level
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    Amy has a box containing domino pieces but she does not think it is a complete set. Which of her domino pieces are missing?

  • Two Clocks
    problem

    Two clocks

    Age
    7 to 11
    Challenge level
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    These clocks have only one hand, but can you work out what time they are showing from the information?