Factors and multiples

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Doubling fives

Age

5 to 7

Challenge level

This activity focuses on doubling multiples of five.
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Tables teaser

Age

5 to 7

Challenge level

How will you work out which numbers have been used to create this multiplication square?
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Are you well balanced?

Age

5 to 7

Challenge level

Can you work out how to make each side of this balance equally balanced? You can put more than one weight on a hook.
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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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What's left?

Age

5 to 7

Challenge level

Use this grid to shade the numbers in the way described. Which numbers do you have left? Do you know what they are called?
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Heads and feet

Age

5 to 7

Challenge level

On a farm there were some hens and sheep. Altogether there were 8 heads and 22 feet. How many hens were there?
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Six in a circle

Age

5 to 7

Challenge level

If there is a ring of six chairs and thirty children must either sit on a chair or stand behind one, how many children will be behind each chair?
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Making shapes

Age

5 to 7

Challenge level

Arrange any number of counters from these 18 on the grid to make a rectangle. What numbers of counters make rectangles? How many different rectangles can you make with each number of counters?
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Nineteen hexagons

Age

5 to 7

Challenge level

In this maze of hexagons, you start in the centre at 0. The next hexagon must be a multiple of 2 and the next a multiple of 5. What are the possible paths you could take?
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Mrs Trimmer's string

Age

5 to 7

Challenge level

Can you help the children in Mrs Trimmer's class make different shapes out of a loop of string?