Being curious

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Advent Calendar 2025 - Primary

Our 2025 Primary Advent calendar contains twenty-four tasks for the run-up to Christmas.
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Advent Calendar 2025 - Secondary

Our 2025 Primary Advent calendar contains twenty-four tasks for the run-up to Christmas.
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How many?

5 to 7

This project challenges you to work out the number of cubes hidden under a cloth. What questions would you like to ask?
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Next-door numbers

Age

5 to 7

Challenge level

Florence, Ethan and Alma have each added together two 'next-door' numbers. What is the same about their answers?
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Eightness of eight

Age

5 to 7

Challenge level

What do you see as you watch this video? Can you create a similar video for the number 12?
problem
Let's investigate triangles

Age

5 to 7

Challenge level

Vincent and Tara are making triangles with the class construction set. They have a pile of strips of different lengths. How many different triangles can they make?
problem
A city of towers

Age

5 to 7

Challenge level

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?
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Buzzy bee

Age

5 to 7

Challenge level

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?
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Catrina's cards

Age

5 to 7

Challenge level

How would you find out how many football cards Catrina has collected?
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What shape and colour?

Age

5 to 7

Challenge level

Can you fill in the empty boxes in the grid with the right shape and colour?