Exploring and noticing

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Domino sequences

Age

5 to 7

Challenge level

Find the next two dominoes in these sequences.
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Grouping goodies

Age

5 to 7

Challenge level

Pat counts her sweets in different groups and both times she has some left over. How many sweets could she have had?
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Making sticks

Age

5 to 7

Challenge level

Kimie and Sebastian were making sticks from interlocking cubes and lining them up. Can they make their lines the same length? Can they make any other lines?
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Butterfly flowers

Age

5 to 7

Challenge level

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?
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Missing middles

Age

5 to 7

Challenge level

Can you work out the domino pieces which would go in the middle in each case to complete the pattern of these eight sets of three dominoes?
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Chain of changes

Age

5 to 7

Challenge level

Arrange the shapes in a line so that you change either colour or shape in the next piece along. Can you find several ways to start with a blue triangle and end with a red circle?
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Amazing alphabet maze

Age

5 to 7

Challenge level

Can you go from A to Z right through the alphabet in the hexagonal maze?
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Buzzy bee

Age

5 to 7

Challenge level

Buzzy Bee was building a honeycomb. She decorated the honeycomb with a pattern using numbers. Can you discover Buzzy's pattern and fill in the empty cells for her?
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One big triangle

Age

5 to 7

Challenge level

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

Age

5 to 7

Challenge level

Arrange the numbers 1 to 6 in each set of circles below. The sum of each side of the triangle should equal the number in its centre.