Year 3 Explaining, convincing and proving

Four of these clues are needed to find the chosen number on this grid and four are true but do nothing to help in finding the number. Can you sort out the clues and find the number?

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 share calculation strategies and to think about which strategy might be the most efficient.

Tom and Ben visited Numberland. Use the maps to work out the number of points each of their routes scores.

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

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

A game for two people, or play online. Given a target number, say 23, and a range of numbers to choose from, say 1-4, players take it in turns to add to the running total to hit their target.

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?