This collection is one of our Primary Curriculum collections - tasks that are grouped by topic.

Repeating patterns
Try continuing these patterns made from triangles. Can you create your own repeating pattern?

Cube bricks and daisy chains
Daisy and Akram were making number patterns. Daisy was using beads that looked like flowers and Akram was using cube bricks. First they were counting in twos.

Poly plug pattern
Create a pattern on the small grid. How could you extend your pattern on the larger grid?


Circles, circles
Here are some arrangements of circles. How many circles would I need to make the next size up for each? Can you create your own arrangement and investigate the number of circles it needs?

Counting stick conjectures


A city of towers
In this town, houses are built with one room for each person. There are some families of seven people living in the town. In how many different ways can they build their houses?

Break it up!
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?

Chairs and tables
Make a chair and table out of interlocking cubes, making sure that the chair fits under the table!

Street sequences
Investigate what happens when you add house numbers along a street in different ways.

School fair necklaces
How many possible symmetrical necklaces can you find? How do you know you've found them all?

Missing middles
Can you work out the domino pieces which would go in the middle in each case to complete the pattern of these eight sets of three dominoes?

Hundred square
A hundred square has been printed on both sides of a piece of paper. What is on the back of 100? 58? 23? 19?

Three ball line up
Use the interactivity to help get a feel for this problem and to find out all the possible ways the balls could land.

Caterpillars
These caterpillars have 16 parts. What different shapes do they make if each part lies in the small squares of a 4 by 4 square?