Multiplication and division

These spinners will give you the tens and unit digits of a number. Can you choose sets of numbers to collect so that you spin six numbers belonging to your sets in as few spins as possible?

You are organising a school trip and you need to write a letter to parents to let them know about the day. Use the cards to gather all the information you need.

This group activity will encourage you to share calculation strategies and to think about which strategy might be the most efficient.

Can you each work out the number on your card? What do you notice? How could you sort the cards?

Help share out the biscuits the children have made.

How would you count the number of fingers in these pictures?

If the answer's 2010, what could the question be?

Choose a symbol to put into the number sentence.

Mathematicians are always looking for efficient methods for solving problems. How efficient can you be?

These pictures and answers leave the viewer with the problem "What is the Question". Can you give the question and how the answer follows?