Year 3 Explaining, convincing and proving

What is the greatest number of counters you can place on the grid below without four of them lying at the corners of a square?

Which of these clues are needed to find the number? Which clues aren't helpful?

Can you put the numbers 1-5 in the V shape so that both 'arms' have the same total?

This group activity will encourage you to compare different calculation strategies.

What statements can you make about the car that passes the school gates at 11am on Monday? How will you come up with statements and test your ideas?

Use the maps to work out the number of points each route through Numberland scores.

Take a look at these data collected by children in 1986 as part of the Domesday Project. What do they tell you? What do you think about the way they are presented?

Looking at the Olympic Medal table, can you see how the data is organised? Could the results be presented differently to give another nation the top place?

In this game the winner is the first to make the total 37. Is this a fair game?

What does the overlap of these two shapes look like? Try picturing it in your head and then use some cut-out shapes to test your prediction.

Try out this number trick. What happens with different starting numbers? What do you notice?

By choosing to add numbers from 1-4, can you hit the target number in this game?

This cube has ink on each face which leaves marks on paper as it is rolled. Can you work out what is on each face and the route it has taken?