Year 2 Exploring and noticing

Vincent and Tara are making triangles with the class construction set. They have a pile of strips of different lengths. How many different triangles can they make?

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?

Find the next two dominoes in these sequences.

What do you notice about these squares of numbers? What is the same? What is different?

Some children were playing a game. Make a graph or picture to show how many ladybirds each child had.

Can you cover the camel with these pieces?

Sort the houses in my street into different groups. Can you do it in any other ways?

Can you use the numbers on the dice to reach your end of the number line before your partner beats you?

Try continuing these patterns made from triangles. Can you create your own repeating pattern?

You'll need to work in a group on this problem. Use your sticky notes to show the answer to questions such as 'how many girls are there in your group?'.

What patterns can you make with a set of dominoes?

Can you work out what shape is made when this piece of paper is folded up using the crease pattern shown?

Have a go at making a few of these shapes from paper in different sizes. What patterns can you create?

Order these four calculations from easiest to hardest. How did you decide?

Can you spot the mistake in this video? How would you work out the answer to this calculation?

In this activity, shapes can be arranged by changing either the colour or the shape each time. Can you find a way to do it?

Can you work out the domino pieces which would go in the middle in each case to complete the pattern of these eight sets of three dominoes?

Pat counts her sweets in different groups and both times she has some left over. How many sweets could she have had?

Jack's mum bought some candles to use on his birthday cakes and when his sister was born, she used them on her cakes too. Can you use the information to find out when Kate was born?

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

How many balls of modelling clay and how many straws does it take to make these skeleton shapes?

There are three baskets, a brown one, a red one and a pink one, holding a total of 10 eggs. How many eggs are in each basket?

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?

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?

These caterpillars have 16 parts. What different shapes do they make if each part lies in the small squares of a 4 by 4 square?

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

Arrange the numbers 1 to 6 in each set of circles below. The sum of each side of the triangle should equal the number in its centre.

At the beginning of May, Tom put his tomato plant outside. On the same day he sowed a bean in another pot. When will the two be the same height?

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