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Practice makes perfect - Upper Primary Students

These activities make use of things you probably already know and help you to understand them even better for solving problems!

I'm Eight
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I'm eight

Age
5 to 11
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Find a great variety of ways of asking questions which make 8.
Totality
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Totality

Age
5 to 11
Challenge level
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This is an adding game for two players. Can you be the first to reach the target?
Mobile Numbers
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Mobile numbers

Age
5 to 11
Challenge level
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In this investigation, you are challenged to make mobile phone numbers which are easy to remember. What happens if you make a sequence adding 2 each time?
Strike it out
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Strike it out

Age
5 to 11
Challenge level
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Use your addition and subtraction skills, combined with some strategic thinking, to beat your partner at this game.

Sorting Logic Blocks
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Sorting logic blocks

Age
5 to 11
Challenge level
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This activity focuses on similarities and differences between shapes.

Brush Loads
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Brush loads

Age
7 to 11
Challenge level
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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.

Nice or Nasty
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Nice or nasty

Age
7 to 14
Challenge level
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There are nasty versions of this dice game but we'll start with the nice ones...
28 - upward and onward
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28 - upward and onward

Age
7 to 11
Challenge level
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Can you find ways of joining cubes together so that 28 faces are visible?
Times Tables Shifts
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Times tables shifts

Age
7 to 11
Challenge level
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In this activity, the computer chooses a times table and shifts it. Can you work out the table and the shift each time?

Tiles in the Garden
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Tiles in the garden

Age
7 to 11
Challenge level
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How many tiles do we need to tile these patios?
Sending and Receiving Cards
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Sending and receiving cards

Age
7 to 11
Challenge level
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This challenge asks you to investigate the total number of cards that would be sent if four children send one to all three others. How many would be sent if there were five children? Six?
Alien Counting
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Alien counting

Age
7 to 11
Challenge level
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Investigate the different ways these aliens count in this challenge. You could start by thinking about how each of them would write our number 7.