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Being Collaborative - Primary Measures

Snap
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Snap

Age
5 to 7
Challenge level
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Try this version of Snap with a friend - do you know the order of the days of the week?
Thirsty?
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Thirsty?

Age
5 to 7
Challenge level
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Can you lay out the pictures of the drinks in the way described by the clue cards?
Order, Order!
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Order, Order!

Age
5 to 11
Challenge level
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Can you place these quantities in order from smallest to largest?
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.
Discuss and Choose
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Discuss and Choose

Age
5 to 11
Challenge level
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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.
How Tall?
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How Tall?

Age
5 to 11
Challenge level
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A group of children are discussing the height of a tall tree. How would you go about finding out its height?
Can you do \it too?
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Can you do it too?

Age
5 to 7
Challenge level
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Try some throwing activities and see whether you can throw something as far as the Olympic hammer or discus throwers.

Matching Time
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Matching Time

Age
5 to 7
Challenge level
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Try this matching game which will help you recognise different ways of saying the same time interval.
Fruity Pairs
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Fruity Pairs

Age
5 to 7
Challenge level
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Which two items of fruit could Kate and Sam choose? Can you order the prices from lowest to highest?
Wallpaper
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Wallpaper

Age
5 to 7
Challenge level
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These pieces of wallpaper need to be ordered from smallest to largest. Can you find a way to do it?
Five Coins
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Five Coins

Age
5 to 11
Challenge level
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Ben has five coins in his pocket. How much money might he have?
The Puzzling Sweet Shop
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The Puzzling Sweet Shop

Age
5 to 11
Challenge level
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There were chews for 2p, mini eggs for 3p, Chocko bars for 5p and lollypops for 7p in the sweet shop. What could each of the children buy with their money?
Stop the Clock
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Stop the Clock

Age
5 to 7
Challenge level
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This is a game for two players. Can you find out how to be the first to get to 12 o'clock?
Clocks
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Clocks

Age
7 to 11
Challenge level
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These clocks have been reflected in a mirror. What times do they say?
Brush Loads
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Brush Loads

Age
7 to 11
Challenge level
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How can you arrange the 5 cubes so that you need the smallest number of Brush Loads of paint to cover them? Try with other numbers of cubes as well.
Two Clocks
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Two Clocks

Age
7 to 11
Challenge level
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These clocks have only one hand, but can you work out what time they are showing from the information?
How Much Did it Cost?
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How Much Did it Cost?

Age
7 to 11
Challenge level
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Use your logical-thinking skills to deduce how much Dan's crisps and ice-cream cost altogether.
Next size up
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Next size up

Age
7 to 11
Challenge level
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The challenge for you is to make a string of six (or more!) graded cubes.
The time is ...
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The time is ...

Age
7 to 11
Challenge level
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Can you put these mixed-up times in order? You could arrange them in a circle.
Through the Window
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Through the Window

Age
7 to 11
Challenge level
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My local DIY shop calculates the price of its windows according to the area of glass and the length of frame used. Can you work out how they arrived at these prices?
Number Lines in Disguise
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Number Lines in Disguise

Age
7 to 14
Challenge level
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Some of the numbers have fallen off Becky's number line. Can you figure out what they were?
Making Boxes
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Making Boxes

Age
7 to 11
Challenge level
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Cut differently-sized square corners from a square piece of paper to make boxes without lids. Do they all have the same volume?
Numerically Equal
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Numerically Equal

Age
7 to 11
Challenge level
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Can you draw a square in which the perimeter is numerically equal to the area?
Fitted
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Fitted

Age
7 to 11
Challenge level
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Nine squares with side lengths 1, 4, 7, 8, 9, 10, 14, 15, and 18 cm can be fitted together to form a rectangle. What are the dimensions of the rectangle?
5 on the clock
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5 on the clock

Age
7 to 11
Challenge level
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On a digital clock showing 24 hour time, over a whole day, how many times does a 5 appear? Is it the same number for a 12 hour clock over a whole day?
Ribbon Squares
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Ribbon Squares

Age
7 to 11
Challenge level
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What is the largest 'ribbon square' you can make? And the smallest? How many different squares can you make altogether?
Watch the clock
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Watch the clock

Age
7 to 11
Challenge level
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During the third hour after midnight the hands on a clock point in the same direction (so one hand is over the top of the other). At what time, to the nearest second, does this happen?