Number and place value

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

Buzzy Bee was building a honeycomb. She decorated the honeycomb with a pattern using numbers. Can you discover Buzzy's pattern and fill in the empty cells for her?

Use these head, body and leg pieces to make Robot Monsters which are different heights.

Can you use the numbers on the dice to reach your end of the number line before your partner beats you?

An old game with lots of arithmetic!

You have a set of the digits from 0 to 9. Can you arrange these in the five boxes to make two-digit numbers as close to the targets as possible?

In this investigation we are going to count the number of 1s, 2s, 3s etc in numbers. Can you predict what will happen?

Dotty Six is a simple dice game that you can adapt in many ways.

There are three versions of this challenge. The idea is to change the colour of all the spots on the grid. Can you do it in fewer throws of the dice?

An activity centred around observations of dots and how we visualise number arrangement patterns.

This activity focuses on rounding to the nearest 10.

Use five steps to count forwards or backwards in 1s or 10s to get to 50. What strategies did you use?

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?

Investigate which numbers make these lights come on. What is the smallest number you can find that lights up all the lights?

Here's a very elementary code that requires young children to read a table, and look for similarities and differences.

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