Counting

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Next domino

Age

5 to 7

Challenge level

Which comes next in each pattern of dominoes?
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Writing digits

Age

5 to 7

Challenge level

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?
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Noah

Age

5 to 7

Challenge level

Noah saw 12 legs walk by into the Ark. How many creatures did he see?
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Month mania

Age

5 to 11

Challenge level

Can you design a new shape for the twenty-eight squares and arrange the numbers in a logical way? What patterns do you notice?
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KS2 teacher playing with dice collection

Age

7 to 11

Challenge level
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Making maths: happy families

Here is a version of the game 'Happy Families' for you to make and play.
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Building patterns

Can you deduce the pattern that has been used to lay out these bottle tops?
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Lucky numbers

This article for pupils explores what makes numbers special or lucky, and looks at the numbers that are all around us every day.
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Adding with the abacus

Nowadays the calculator is very familiar to many of us. What did people do to save time working out more difficult problems before the calculator existed?
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Natural born mathematicians

Helen Joyce interviews the neuropsychologist Brian Butterworth whose research has shown that we are all born with a "built-in" sense of cardinal number.