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More Upper Primary Activities on Number Sense and Place Value

Fingers and Hands
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Fingers and Hands

Age
7 to 11
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How would you count the number of fingers in these pictures?
The Deca Tree
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The Deca Tree

Age
7 to 11
Challenge level
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Find out what a Deca Tree is and then work out how many leaves there will be after the woodcutter has cut off a trunk, a branch, a twig and a leaf.
The Thousands Game
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The Thousands Game

Age
7 to 11
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Each child in Class 3 took four numbers out of the bag. Who had made the highest even number?
Four-digit targets
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Four-digit targets

Age
7 to 11
Challenge level
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You have two sets of the digits 0-9. Can you arrange these in the five boxes to make four-digit numbers as close to the target numbers as possible?