Being resilient - Primary measures

A group of animals has made a seesaw in the woods. How can you make the seesaw balance?

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

Ben has five coins in his pocket. How much money might he have?

There were cola bottles for 2p, mini eggs for 3p, marshmallow twists for 5p and lollipops for 7p in the sweet shop. What could each of the children buy with their money?

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

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.

Use your logical thinking skills to deduce how much Dan's crisps and ice cream cost altogether.

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?

Some of the numbers have fallen off Becky's number line. Can you figure out what they were?

Cut differently-sized square corners from a square piece of paper to make boxes without lids. Do they all have the same volume?

Can you draw a square in which the perimeter is numerically equal to the area?

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?

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?

What is the largest 'ribbon square' you can make? And the smallest? How many different squares can you make altogether?