Being Collaborative - Primary All Resources

Here are some short problems for you to try. Talk to your friends about how you work them out.

Can you sort these triangles into three different families and explain how you did it?

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?

This task requires learners to explain and help others, asking and answering questions.

Try some throwing activities and see whether you can throw something as far as the Olympic hammer or discus throwers.

This challenge invites you to create your own picture using just straight lines. Can you identify shapes with the same number of sides and decorate them in the same way?

In how many different ways can you break up a stick of seven interlocking cubes? Now try with a stick of eight cubes and a stick of six cubes. What do you notice?

Try this matching game which will help you recognise different ways of saying the same time interval.

"Ip dip sky blue! Who's 'it'? It's you!" Where would you position yourself so that you are 'it' if there are two players? Three players ...?

How will you complete these interactive Venn diagrams?

Can you describe a piece of paper clearly enough for your partner to know which piece it is?

Can you place these quantities in order from smallest to largest?

Are these statements relating to odd and even numbers always true, sometimes true or never true?

Use your addition and subtraction skills, combined with some strategic thinking, to beat your partner at this game.

Are these statements relating to calculation and properties of shapes always true, sometimes true or never true?

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.

This activity challenges you to decide on the 'best' number to use in each statement. You may need to do some estimating, some calculating and some research.

Use the interactivities to fill in these Carroll diagrams. How do you know where to place the numbers?

Can you each work out what shape you have part of on your card? What will the rest of it look like?

Vincent and Tara are making triangles with the class construction set. They have a pile of strips of different lengths. How many different triangles can they make?

Create a pattern on the small grid. How could you extend your pattern on the larger grid?

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?

Sara and Will were sorting some pictures of shapes on cards. "I'll collect the circles," said Sara. "I'll take the red ones," answered Will. Can you see any cards they would both want?

A task which depends on members of the group noticing the needs of others and responding.

A group of children are discussing the height of a tall tree. How would you go about finding out its height?

A task which depends on members of the group noticing the needs of others and responding.

This activity is based on data in the book 'If the World Were a Village'. How will you represent your chosen data for maximum effect?

Try out this number trick. What happens with different starting numbers? What do you notice?

Can you lay out the pictures of the drinks in the way described by the clue cards?

Make one big triangle so the numbers that touch on the small triangles add to 10.

Which two items of fruit could Kate and Sam choose? Can you order the prices from lowest to highest?

Ben and his mum are planting garlic. Can you find out how many cloves of garlic they might have had?

What does the overlap of these two shapes look like? Try picturing it in your head and then use some cut-out shapes to test your prediction.

A hundred square has been printed on both sides of a piece of paper. What is on the back of 100? 58? 23? 19?

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?

How many balls of modelling clay and how many straws does it take to make these skeleton shapes?

These pieces of wallpaper need to be ordered from smallest to largest. Can you find a way to do it?

Explore ways of colouring this set of triangles. Can you make symmetrical patterns?

Arrange the shapes in a line so that you change either colour or shape in the next piece along. Can you find several ways to start with a blue triangle and end with a red circle?

Pat counts her sweets in different groups and both times she has some left over. How many sweets could she have had?

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

This task requires learners to explain and help others, asking and answering questions.

Use the lines on this figure to show how the square can be divided into 2 halves, 3 thirds, 6 sixths and 9 ninths.

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 parallelogram.

Use the information on these cards to draw the shape that is being described.

Can you put the numbers 1-5 in the V shape so that both 'arms' have the same total?

Use the two sets of data to find out how many children there are in Classes 5, 6 and 7.