Being resourceful

This group activity will encourage you to share calculation strategies and to think about which strategy might be the most efficient.

What statements can you make about the car that passes the school gates at 11am on Monday? How will you come up with statements and test your ideas?

What can you say about these shapes? This problem challenges you to create shapes with different areas and perimeters.

After training hard, these two children have improved their results. Can you work out the length or height of their first jumps?

Class 5 were looking at the first letter of each of their names. They created different charts to show this information. Can you work out which member of the class was away on that day?

This problem explores the range of events in a sports day and which ones are the most popular and attract the most entries.

What happens when you add three numbers together? Will your answer be odd or even? How do you know?

This problem shows that the external angles of an irregular hexagon add to a circle.

Can you find different ways of showing the same fraction? Try this matching game and see.

Look at different ways of dividing things. What do they mean? How might you show them in a picture, with things, with numbers and symbols?