Here are some more lower primary activities which lend themselves to a focus on recording mathematics.
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A City of Towers
Age
5 to 7
Challenge level
In this town, houses are built with one room for each person. There are some families of seven people living in the town. In how many different ways can they build their houses?
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Lots of Biscuits!
Age
5 to 7
Challenge level
Help share out the biscuits the children have made.
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Beads and bags
Age
5 to 11
Challenge level
How could you put these three beads into bags? How many different ways can you do it? How could you record what you've done?
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Lots of Lollies
Age
5 to 7
Challenge level
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?