Being resourceful

  • Seesaw Shenanigans
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    Seesaw shenanigans

    Age
    3 to 7
    Challenge level
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    A group of animals has made a seesaw in the woods. How can you make the seesaw balance?

  • Always, Sometimes or Never? KS1
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    Always, sometimes or never? KS1

    Age
    5 to 7
    Challenge level
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    Are these statements relating to calculation and properties of shapes always true, sometimes true or never true?

  • Let's Investigate Triangles
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    Let's investigate triangles

    Age
    5 to 7
    Challenge level
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    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?

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    Biscuit decorations

    Age
    5 to 7
    Challenge level
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    Andrew decorated 20 biscuits to take to a party. He lined them up and put icing on every second biscuit and different decorations on other biscuits. How many biscuits weren't decorated?

  • Writing Digits
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    Writing digits

    Age
    5 to 7
    Challenge level
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    Lee was writing all the counting numbers from 1 to 20. She stopped for a rest after writing seventeen digits. What was the last number she wrote?

  • Catrina's Cards
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    Catrina's cards

    Age
    5 to 7
    Challenge level
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    How would you find out how many football cards Catrina has collected?

  • Two flowers with the numbers 15 and 16 on them
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    Butterfly flowers

    Age
    5 to 7
    Challenge level
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    Can you find two butterflies to go on each flower so that the numbers on each pair of butterflies adds to the number on their flower?

  • Building with Solid Shapes
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    Building with solid shapes

    Age
    5 to 7
    Challenge level
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    We have a box of cubes, triangular prisms, cones, cuboids, cylinders and tetrahedrons. Which of the buildings would fall down if we tried to make them?

  • Ladybird Count
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    Ladybird count

    Age
    5 to 7
    Challenge level
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    Some children were playing a game. Make a graph or picture to show how many ladybirds each child had.

  • Share Bears
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    Share bears

    Age
    5 to 7
    Challenge level
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    Yasmin and Zach have some bears to share. Which numbers of bears can they share so that there are none left over?