Exploring and noticing

A group of animals has made a seesaw in the woods. How can you make the seesaw balance?

Can you work out what shape is made when this piece of paper is folded up using the crease pattern shown?

Have a go at making a few of these shapes from paper in different sizes. What patterns can you create?

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?

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?

Lee wrote some numbers. What do you think she wrote next? How many digits did she write altogether?

Which comes next in each pattern of dominoes?

Make one big triangle so the numbers that touch on the small triangles add to 10.

Buzzy Bee decorated her honeycomb with counting patterns. What might the missing numbers be?

Which two butterfly numbers add to make the flower number of 15? What about 16?