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Tangrams
Age
5 to 11
Challenge level
Can you make five differently sized squares from the interactive tangram pieces?
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Same Length Trains
Age
5 to 7
Challenge level
How many trains can you make which are the same length as Matt's and Katie's, using rods that are identical?
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Find the Difference
Age
5 to 7
Challenge level
Place the numbers 1 to 6 in the circles so that each number is the difference between the two numbers just below it.
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How would we count?
Age
5 to 11
Challenge level
An activity centred around observations of dots and how we visualise number arrangement patterns.
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Button-Up
Age
5 to 7
Challenge level
My coat has three buttons. How many ways can you find to do up all the buttons?
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Ip Dip
Age
5 to 11
Challenge level
"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 ...?
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Domino Patterns
Age
5 to 7
Challenge level
What patterns can you make with a set of dominoes?
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Fraction Match
Age
5 to 11
Challenge level
A task which depends on members of the group noticing the needs of others and responding.
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Doing and undoing
Age
5 to 11
Challenge level
An investigation looking at doing and undoing mathematical operations focusing on doubling, halving, adding and subtracting.
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Happy Halving
Age
5 to 7
Challenge level
Can you split each of the shapes below in half so that the two parts are exactly the same?
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Break it up!
Age
5 to 11
Challenge level
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?
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I Like ...
Age
5 to 7
Challenge level
Mr Gilderdale is playing a game with his class. What rule might he have chosen? How would you test your idea?