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Two Stones
game

Two Stones

This game is known as Pong hau k'i in China and Ou-moul-ko-no in Korea. Find a friend to play or try the interactive version online.
What Shape and Colour?
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What Shape and Colour?

Age
5 to 7
Challenge level
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Can you fill in the empty boxes in the grid with the right shape and colour?

Share Bears
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Share Bears

Age
5 to 7
Challenge level
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Yasmin and Zach have some bears to share. Which numbers of bears can they share so that there are none left over?
Robot Monsters
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Robot Monsters

Age
5 to 7
Challenge level
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Use these head, body and leg pieces to make Robot Monsters which are different heights.
Sort the Street
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Sort the Street

Age
5 to 7
Challenge level
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Sort the houses in my street into different groups. Can you do it in any other ways?

Number Lines
problem
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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?
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?

What is the time?
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What is the time?

Age
5 to 11
Challenge level
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Can you put these times on the clocks in order? You might like to arrange them in a circle.
Incey Wincey Spider
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Incey Wincey Spider

Age
5 to 7
Challenge level
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You'll need two dice to play this game against a partner. Will Incey Wincey make it to the top of the drain pipe or the bottom of the drain pipe first?
Seeing Squares
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Seeing Squares

Age
5 to 11
Challenge level
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Players take it in turns to choose a dot on the grid. The winner is the first to have four dots that can be joined to form a square.

Four Triangles Puzzle
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Four Triangles Puzzle

Age
5 to 11
Challenge level
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Cut four triangles from a square as shown in the picture. How many different shapes can you make by fitting the four triangles back together?
Two Dice
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Two Dice

Age
5 to 7
Challenge level
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Find all the numbers that can be made by adding the dots on two dice.
Biscuit Decorations
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Biscuit Decorations

Age
5 to 7
Challenge level
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Andrew decorated 20 biscuits to take to a party. He lined them up and put icing on every second biscuit and different decorations on other biscuits. How many biscuits weren't decorated?
Whose Face?
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Whose Face?

Age
5 to 11
Challenge level
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These are the faces of Will, Lil, Bill, Phil and Jill. Use the clues to work out which name goes with each face.
Next Domino
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Next Domino

Age
5 to 7
Challenge level
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Which comes next in each pattern of dominoes?
A City of Towers
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A City of Towers

Age
5 to 7
Challenge level
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In this town, houses are built with one room for each person. There are some families of seven people living in the town. In how many different ways can they build their houses?

Magnifying glass
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Number Detective

Age
5 to 11
Challenge level
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Follow the clues to find the mystery number.

Skip Counting
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Skip Counting

Age
5 to 7
Challenge level
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Find the squares that Froggie skips onto to get to the pumpkin patch. She starts on 3 and finishes on 30, but she lands only on a square that has a number 3 more than the square she skips from.
Two flowers with the numbers 15 and 16 on them
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Butterfly Flowers

Age
5 to 7
Challenge level
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Can you find two butterflies to go on each flower so that the numbers on each pair of butterflies adds to the number on their flower?

Domino Sequences
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Domino Sequences

Age
5 to 7
Challenge level
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Find the next two dominoes in these sequences.
Nim-7
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Nim-7

Age
5 to 11
Challenge level
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Can you work out how to win this game of Nim? Does it matter if you go first or second?
Tangrams
problem

Tangrams

Age
5 to 11
Challenge level
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Can you make five differently sized squares from the interactive tangram pieces?

Teddy Town
problem

Teddy Town

Age
5 to 11
Challenge level
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There are nine teddies in Teddy Town - three red, three blue and three yellow. There are also nine houses, three of each colour. Can you put them on the map of Teddy Town according to the rules?

3 blocks towers
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Three block towers

Age
5 to 7
Challenge level
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Take three differently coloured blocks - maybe red, yellow and blue. Make a tower using one of each colour. How many different towers can you make?
Teddy Town
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Teddy Town - Part two

Age
5 to 11
Challenge level
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There are nine teddies in Teddy Town - three red, three blue and three yellow. There are also nine houses, three of each colour. Can you put them on the map of Teddy Town according to the rules?

Ladybird Box
problem

Ladybird Box

Age
5 to 11
Challenge level
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Place six toy ladybirds into the box so that there are two ladybirds in every column and every row.
Teddy Town
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Teddy Town - Part three

Age
5 to 11
Challenge level
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There are sixteen teddies in Teddy Town - four red, four blue, four yellow and four green. There are also sixteen houses, four of each colour. Can you put them on the map of Teddy Town according to the rules?

Teddy Town
problem

Teddy Town - Part four

Age
5 to 11
Challenge level
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There are twenty five teddies in Teddy Town - five red, five blue, five yellow, five green and five purple. There are also twenty five houses, five of each colour. Can you put them on the map of Teddy Town according to the rules?

Teddy Town
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Teddy Town - Part five

Age
5 to 11
Challenge level
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There are thirty six teddies in Teddy Town - six red, six blue, six yellow, six green, six purple and six turquoise. There are also thirty six houses, six of each colour. Can you put them on the map of Teddy Town according to the rules?

Three by Three
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Three by Three

Age
5 to 11
Challenge level
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Arrange 3 red, 3 blue and 3 yellow counters into a three-by-three square grid, so that there is only one of each colour in every row and every column
Mixed-up Socks
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Mixed-up Socks

Age
5 to 7
Challenge level
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Start with three pairs of socks. Now mix them up so that no mismatched pair is the same as another mismatched pair. Is there more than one way to do it?
Three Way Mix Up
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Three Way Mix Up

Age
5 to 11
Challenge level
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Jack has nine tiles. He put them together to make a square so that two tiles of the same colour were not beside each other. Can you find another way to do it?
Teddy Bear Line-Up
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Teddy Bear Line-Up

Age
5 to 7
Challenge level
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What is the least number of moves you can take to rearrange the bears so that no bear is next to a bear of the same colour?
Missing Middles
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Missing Middles

Age
5 to 7
Challenge level
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Can you work out the domino pieces which would go in the middle in each case to complete the pattern of these eight sets of three dominoes?
Making Sticks
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Making Sticks

Age
5 to 7
Challenge level
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Kimie and Sebastian were making sticks from interlocking cubes and lining them up. Can they make their lines the same length? Can they make any other lines?
Domino Join Up
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Domino Join Up

Age
5 to 7
Challenge level
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Can you arrange fifteen dominoes so that all the touching domino pieces add to 6 and the ends join up? Can you make all the joins add to 7?
Four Colours
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Four Colours

Age
5 to 11
Challenge level
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Kate has eight multilink cubes. She has two red ones, two yellow, two green and two blue. She wants to fit them together to make a cube so that each colour shows on each face just once.
Make 37 Poster
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Make 37

Age
5 to 11
Challenge level
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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?

4 Dom
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4 Dom

Age
5 to 11
Challenge level
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Use these four dominoes to make a square that has the same number of dots on each side.
The Third Dimension
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The Third Dimension

Age
5 to 11
Challenge level
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Here are four cubes joined together. How many other arrangements of four cubes can you find? Can you draw them on dotty paper?