
Primary children's mathematical recording

What was in the box?
This box does something to the numbers that go into it. If you know the numbers that come out, what might be going on inside the box?

6 beads
If you put three beads onto a tens/ones abacus you can make the numbers 3, 30, 12 or 21. What numbers can be made with six beads?

Money bags

Eggs in baskets
There are three baskets, a brown one, a red one and a pink one, holding a total of 10 eggs. How many eggs are in each basket?

School fair necklaces

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?

What's in the box?
This big box multiplies anything that goes inside it by the same number. If you know the numbers that come out, what multiplication might be going on in the box?

Domino square

Dice in a corner
How could you arrange at least two dice in a stack so that the total of the visible spots is 18?