Exploring and noticing

The Man is much smaller than us. Can you use the picture of him next to a mug to estimate his height and how much tea he drinks?

These pieces of wallpaper need to be ordered from smallest to largest. Can you find a way to do it?

Ahmed is making rods using different numbers of cubes. Which rod is twice the length of his first rod?

Annie and Ben are playing a game with a calculator. What was Annie's secret number?

What number patterns can you see in the different arrangements of these caterpillars?

Use five steps to count forwards or backwards in 1s or 10s to get to 50. What strategies did you use?

Can you split each of the shapes below in half so that the two parts are exactly the same?

Tom had a tomato plant and he sowed a bean seed. When will the two plants be the same height?

Use the information about Sally and her brother to find out how many children there are in the Brown family.

Complete the squares - but be warned some are trickier than they look!