This collection is one of our Primary Curriculum collections - tasks that are grouped by topic.
Catrina's cards
Share bears
Ring a ring of numbers
More numbers in the ring
Are you well balanced?
Clapping times
Even and odd
How odd
Two numbers under the microscope
Odd times even
Double or halve?
Birthday sharing
Tables teaser
Our numbers
These spinners will give you the tens and unit digits of a number. Can you choose sets of numbers to collect so that you spin six numbers belonging to your sets in as few spins as possible?
Ip dip
"Ip dip sky blue! Who's 'it'? It's you!" Where would you position yourself so that you are 'it' if there are two players? Three players ...?
Make 37
Four bags contain a large number of 1s, 3s, 5s and 7s. Can you pick any ten numbers from the bags so that their total is 37?
Lots of lollies
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?
Growing garlic
Ben and his mum are planting garlic. Can you find out how many cloves of garlic they might have had?
Magic plant
On Friday the magic plant was only 2 centimetres tall. Every day it doubled its height. How tall was it on Monday?
The amazing splitting plant
Can you work out how many flowers there will be on the Amazing Splitting Plant after it has been growing for six weeks?
The tomato and the bean
At the beginning of May, Tom put his tomato plant outside. On the same day he sowed a bean in another pot. When will the two be the same height?
Always, sometimes or never?
Are these statements relating to odd and even numbers always true, sometimes true or never true?
You may also be interested in this collection of activities from the STEM Learning website, that complement the NRICH activities above.