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Use your knowledge of place value to try to win this game. How will you maximise your score?
Have a look at these photos of different fruit. How many do you see? How did you count?
Try out this number trick. What happens with different starting numbers? What do you notice?
Some of the numbers have fallen off Becky's number line. Can you figure out what they were?
Can you find any two-digit numbers that satisfy all of these statements?
Find as many different ways of representing this number of dots as you can.
Can you find some examples when the number of Roman numerals is fewer than the number of Arabic numerals for the same number?
This task focuses on distances travelled by the asteroid Florence. It's an opportunity to work with very large numbers.
Can you use addition and subtraction to answer these questions about real-life distances?
How do you know whether you will reach these numbers when you count in steps of six from zero?
Who said that adding, subtracting, multiplying and dividing couldn't be fun?
Four strategy dice games to consolidate pupils' understanding of rounding.
What happens when you round these three-digit numbers to the nearest 100?
This activity involves rounding four-digit numbers to the nearest thousand.
Exploring the structure of a number square: how quickly can you put the number tiles in the right place on the grid?
An activity centred around observations of dots and how we visualise number arrangement patterns.
Take three consecutive numbers and add them together. What do you notice?
Look at what happens when you take a number, square it and subtract your answer. What kind of number do you get? Can you prove it?
What happens when you add three numbers together? Will your answer be odd or even? How do you know?
How would you create the largest possible two-digit even number from the digit I've given you and one of your choice?
Dotty Six is a simple dice game that you can adapt in many ways.
In this investigation we are going to count the number of 1s, 2s, 3s etc in numbers. Can you predict what will happen?
You are organising a school trip and you need to write a letter to parents to let them know about the day. Use the cards to gather all the information you need.
A task which depends on members of the group noticing the needs of others and responding.
There are nasty versions of this dice game but we'll start with the nice ones...
This 100 square jigsaw is written in code. It starts with 1 and ends with 100. Can you build it up?
Play this game and see if you can figure out the computer's chosen number.
You have two sets of the digits 0-9. Can you arrange these in the five boxes to make four-digit numbers as close to the target numbers as possible?
Can you put the numbers 1-5 in the V shape so that both 'arms' have the same total?
The picture shows a lighthouse and some underwater creatures. Can you work out the distances between some of the different creatures?
In this game, you can add, subtract, multiply or divide the numbers on the dice. Which will you do so that you get to the end of the number line first?
Add or subtract the two numbers on the spinners and try to complete a row of three. Are there some numbers that are good to aim for?
In this problem, we're investigating the number of steps we would climb up or down to get out of or into the swimming pool. How could you number the steps below the water?
Place the numbers from 1 to 9 in the squares below so that the difference between joined squares is odd. How many different ways can you do this?
There is a clock-face where the numbers have become all mixed up. Can you find out where all the numbers have got to from these ten statements?
Find out what a Deca Tree is and then work out how many leaves there will be after the woodcutter has cut off a trunk, a branch, a twig and a leaf.
There are six numbers written in five different scripts. Can you sort out which is which?