Year 4 Being resourceful

This activity challenges you to decide on the 'best' number to use in each statement. You may need to do some estimating, some calculating and some research.

Where can you put the mirror across the square so that you can still "see" the whole square? How many different positions are possible?

Find out what a Deca Tree is and then work out how many leaves there will be after the woodcutter has cut off a trunk, a branch, a twig and a leaf.

Each child in Class 3 took four numbers out of the bag. Who had made the highest even number?

Using the picture of the fraction wall, can you find equivalent fractions?

These rectangles have been torn. How many squares did each one have inside it before it was ripped?

Investigate how the four L-shapes fit together to make an enlarged L-shape. You could explore this idea with other shapes too.

Can you complete this jigsaw of the multiplication square?

These eleven shapes each stand for a different number. Can you use the number sentences to work out what they are?

There are nasty versions of this dice game but we'll start with the nice ones...