In this activity, shapes can be arranged by changing either the colour or the shape each time. Can you find a way to do it?
Use the interactivity to help get a feel for this problem and to find out all the possible ways the balls could land.
These caterpillars have 16 parts. What different shapes do they make if each part lies in the small squares of a 4 by 4 square?
At the beginning of May, Tom put his tomato plant outside. On the same day he sowed a bean in another pot. When will the two be the same height?
Here are some arrangements of circles. How many circles would I need to make the next size up for each? Can you create your own arrangement and investigate the number of circles it needs?
In how many different ways can you break up a stick of seven interlocking cubes? Now try with a stick of eight cubes and a stick of six cubes. What do you notice?
Investigate what happens when you add house numbers along a street in different ways.
