Year 3 Being resourceful

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?

Here are four cubes joined together. How many other arrangements of four cubes can you find? Can you draw them on dotty paper?

Lola bought a balloon at the circus using six coins. What could Lola have paid for the balloon?

Can you discover the value of the circle in each problem?

Here are the six faces of a cube - in no particular order. Here are three views of the cube. Can you deduce where the faces are in relation to each other and record them on the net of this cube?

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?

Can you find out where all the numbers on this clock face are using the ten statements?

Have a look at this table of how children travel to school. How does it compare with children in your class?

Can you predict when you'll be clapping and when you'll be clicking if you start this rhythm? How about when a friend begins a new rhythm at the same time?

This big box multiplies anything that goes inside it by the same number. If you know the numbers that come out, what multiplication might be going on in the box?

Can you put the numbers 1-5 in the V shape so that both 'arms' have the same total?

This 100 square jigsaw is written in code. It starts with 1 and ends with 100. Can you build it up?

This group activity will encourage you to compare different calculation strategies.

What statements can you make about the car that passes the school gates at 11am on Monday? How will you come up with statements and test your ideas?

Class 5 were looking at the first letter of each of their names. They created different charts to show this information. Can you work out which member of the class was away on that day?

This problem explores the range of events in a sports day and which ones are the most popular and attract the most entries.

Look at these results from past Olympic Games. How do you compare if you try some similar activities?

Can you find different ways of showing the same fraction? Try this matching game and see.

In this game the winner is the first to make the total 37. Is this a fair game?

Mandeep's watch loses two minutes every hour. Adam's watch gains one minute every hour. Can you work out what time they arrived at the airport?

These clocks have only one hand, but can you work out what time they are showing from the information?

Use your logical thinking skills to deduce how much Dan's crisps and ice cream cost altogether.

Have a look at these past sporting results. Can you use them to predict future results?

How many people and rats could there be if you know how many legs there are altogether?

Can you find all the ways to get 15 at the top of this triangle of added numbers?

During the third hour after midnight the hands on a clock point in the same direction (so one hand is over the top of the other). At what time, to the nearest second, does this happen?

Here's a strategy game with lots to explore. Can you find out enough to guarantee a win, no matter what the settings?

This cube has ink on each face which leaves marks on paper as it is rolled. Can you work out what is on each face and the route it has taken?