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Biscuit Decorations
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Biscuit Decorations

Age
5 to 7
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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?
Ladybird Count
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Ladybird Count

Age
5 to 7
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Some children were playing a game. Make a graph or picture to show how many ladybirds each child had.

Turning Man
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Turning Man

Age
5 to 7
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Use the interactivity to find out how many quarter turns the man must rotate through to look like each of the pictures.
Rolling that cube
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Rolling that cube

Age
5 to 11
Challenge level
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My dice has inky marks on each face. Can you find the route it has taken? What does each face look like?
Shaping It
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Shaping It

Age
5 to 11
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These pictures were made by starting with a square, finding the half-way point on each side and joining those points up. You could investigate your own starting shape.
Dotty Six
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Dotty Six

Age
5 to 11
Challenge level
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Dotty Six is a simple dice game that you can adapt in many ways.

The animals' sports day
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The animals' sports day

Age
5 to 7
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One day five small animals in my garden were going to have a sports day. They decided to have a swimming race, a running race, a high jump and a long jump.

Five Steps to 50
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Five Steps to 50

Age
5 to 7
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Use five steps to count forwards or backwards in 1s or 10s to get to 50. What strategies did you use?
Heads and Feet
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Heads and Feet

Age
5 to 7
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On a farm there were some hens and sheep. Altogether there were 8 heads and 22 feet. How many hens were there?
Ring a Ring of Numbers
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Ring a Ring of Numbers

Age
5 to 7
Challenge level
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Choose four of the numbers from 1 to 9 to put in the squares so that the differences between joined squares are odd.
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?

The Tall Tower
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The Tall Tower

Age
5 to 7
Challenge level
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As you come down the ladders of the Tall Tower you collect useful spells. Which way should you go to collect the most spells?
More Numbers in the Ring
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More Numbers in the Ring

Age
5 to 7
Challenge level
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If there are 3 squares in the ring, can you place three different numbers in them so that their differences are odd? Try with different numbers of squares around the ring. What do you notice?
Cubes
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Cubes

Age
7 to 11
Challenge level
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How many faces can you see when you arrange these three cubes in different ways?
Square It
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Square It

Age
11 to 16
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.