Visualising and representing

  • Always, Sometimes or Never?
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    Always, Sometimes or Never?

    Age
    5 to 11
    Challenge level
    1 out of 3

    Are these statements relating to odd and even numbers always, sometimes or never true?

  • swimming pool
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    Swimming Pool

    Age
    5 to 11
    Challenge level
    1 out of 3

    In this swimming pool, the steps go below the water. How could you number the steps below the water?

  • Fraction Match
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    Fraction Match

    Age
    5 to 11
    Challenge level
    1 out of 3

    A task which depends on members of the group noticing the needs of others and responding.

  • If the World Were a Village
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    If the World Were a Village

    Age
    5 to 11
    Challenge level
    1 out of 3

    This activity is based on data in the book 'If the World Were a Village'. How will you represent your chosen data for maximum effect?

  • Take three numbers
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    Take Three Numbers

    Age
    5 to 11
    Challenge level
    1 out of 3

    What happens when you add three numbers together? Will your answer be odd or even?

  • How would we count?
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    How Would We Count?

    Age
    5 to 11
    Challenge level
    1 out of 3

    An activity centred around observations of dots and how we visualise number arrangement patterns.

  • That number square
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    That Number Square

    Age
    5 to 11
    Challenge level
    1 out of 3

    How quickly can you put the number tiles in the right place on the number square?

  • Doing and undoing
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    Doing and Undoing

    Age
    5 to 11
    Challenge level
    1 out of 3

    This investigation involving the four operations looks at doing and undoing.

  • Make 37 Poster
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    Make 37

    Age
    5 to 11
    Challenge level
    2 out of 3

    Four bags contain 1s, 3s, 5s and 7s. Can you pick ten numbers from the bags so that their total is 37?

  • Odd times Even
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    Odd Times Even

    Age
    5 to 11
    Challenge level
    3 out of 3

    This problem looks at how one example of your choice can show something about the general structure of multiplication.