Practice makes perfect - Lower Primary Students

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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?

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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?

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Number Squares

Age

5 to 11

Challenge level

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?

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Totality

Age

5 to 11

Challenge level

This is an adding game for two players. Can you be the first to reach the target?

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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?

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Turning

Age

5 to 7

Challenge level

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

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Mobile Numbers

Age

5 to 11

Challenge level

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?

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Shut the box

Age

5 to 7

Challenge level

An old game with lots of arithmetic!

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Two-digit targets

Age

5 to 7

Challenge level

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?

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Our Numbers

Age

5 to 7

Challenge level

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?