Exploring and noticing

Use your addition and subtraction skills, combined with some strategic thinking, to beat your partner at this game.

Can you each work out what shape you have part of on your card? What will the rest of it look like?

"Ip dip sky blue! Who's 'it'? It's you!" Where would you position yourself so that you are 'it' if there are two players? Three players ...?

Sweets are given out to party-goers in a particular way. Investigate the total number of sweets received by people sitting in different positions.

Dotty Six is a simple dice game that you can adapt in many ways.

In these addition games, you'll need to think strategically to get closest to the target.

Players take it in turns to choose a dot on the grid. The winner is the first to have four dots that can be joined to form a square.

Use the interactivities to fill in these Carroll diagrams. How do you know where to place the numbers?

This activity challenges you to decide on the 'best' number to use in each statement. You may need to do some estimating, some calculating and some research.

Can you place these quantities in order from smallest to largest?