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Practice makes perfect - Lower Primary Students

These activities make use of things you probably already know and help you to understand them even better for solving problems!

Totality
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Totality

Age
5 to 11
Challenge level
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This is an adding game for two players. Can you be the first to reach the target?
Number Lines
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Number lines

Age
5 to 7
Challenge level
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A resource to try once children are familiar with number lines, and they have begun to use them for addition. It could be a good way to talk about subtraction. Leah and Tom each have a number line. Can you work out where their counters will land?
Turning
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Turning

Age
5 to 7
Challenge level
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Use your mouse to move the red and green parts of this disc. Can you make images which show the turnings described?

Mobile Numbers
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Mobile numbers

Age
5 to 11
Challenge level
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In this investigation, you are challenged to make mobile phone numbers which are easy to remember. What happens if you make a sequence adding 2 each time?
Shut the box
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Shut the box

Age
5 to 7
Challenge level
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An old game with lots of arithmetic!

Two-digit targets
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Two-digit targets

Age
5 to 7
Challenge level
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You have a set of the digits from 0 to 9. Can you arrange these in the five boxes to make two-digit numbers as close to the targets as possible?

Our Numbers
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Our numbers

Age
5 to 7
Challenge level
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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?

The add and take-away path
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The add and take-away path

Age
5 to 7
Challenge level
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Two children made up a game as they walked along the garden paths. Can you find out their scores? Can you find some paths of your own?
That number square
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That number square

Age
5 to 11
Challenge level
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Exploring the structure of a number square: how quickly can you put the number tiles in the right place on the grid?
Five Steps to 50
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Five steps to 50

Age
5 to 7
Challenge level
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Use five steps to count forwards or backwards in 1s or 10s to get to 50. What strategies did you use?
Shut the Box for Two
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Shut the box for two

Shut the Box game for an adult and child. Can you turn over the cards which match the numbers on the dice?
Strike it out
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Strike it out for two

Strike it Out game for an adult and child. Can you stop your partner from being able to go?

Number Squares
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Number squares

Age
5 to 11
Challenge level
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Start with four numbers at the corners of a square and put the total of two corners in the middle of that side. Keep going... Can you estimate what the size of the last four numbers will be?
The Amazing Splitting Plant
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The amazing splitting plant

Age
5 to 7
Challenge level
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Can you work out how many flowers there will be on the Amazing Splitting Plant after it has been growing for six weeks?

Lots of Lollies
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Lots of lollies

Age
5 to 7
Challenge level
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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?

Stop the Clock
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Stop the clock

Age
5 to 7
Challenge level
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This is a game for two players. Can you find out how to be the first to get to 12 o'clock?