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What Shape and Colour?
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What Shape and Colour?

Age
5 to 7
Challenge level
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Can you fill in the empty boxes in the grid with the right shape and colour?

Ladybird Count
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Ladybird Count

Age
5 to 7
Challenge level
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Some children were playing a game. Make a graph or picture to show how many ladybirds each child had.

Sort the Street
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Sort the Street

Age
5 to 7
Challenge level
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Sort the houses in my street into different groups. Can you do it in any other ways?

Guess the houses
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Guess the houses

Age
5 to 7
Challenge level
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This task depends on learners sharing reasoning, listening to opinions, reflecting and pulling ideas together.
Button-Up
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Button-Up

Age
5 to 7
Challenge level
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My coat has three buttons. How many ways can you find to do up all the buttons?
Beads and bags
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Beads and bags

Age
5 to 11
Challenge level
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How could you put these three beads into bags? How many different ways can you do it? How could you record what you've done?
Sticky Data
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Sticky Data

Age
5 to 7
Challenge level
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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?'.
If the World Were a Village
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If the World Were a Village

Age
5 to 11
Challenge level
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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?

Plants
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Plants

Age
5 to 14
Challenge level
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Three children are going to buy some plants for their birthdays. They will plant them within circular paths. How could they do this?
Noah
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Noah

Age
5 to 7
Challenge level
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Noah saw 12 legs walk by into the Ark. How many creatures did he see?
3 blocks towers
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Three block towers

Age
5 to 7
Challenge level
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Take three differently coloured blocks - maybe red, yellow and blue. Make a tower using one of each colour. How many different towers can you make?
Mixed-up Socks
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Mixed-up Socks

Age
5 to 7
Challenge level
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Start with three pairs of socks. Now mix them up so that no mismatched pair is the same as another mismatched pair. Is there more than one way to do it?
Three Ball Line Up
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Three Ball Line Up

Age
5 to 7
Challenge level
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Use the interactivity to help get a feel for this problem and to find out all the possible ways the balls could land.
In the Playground
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In the Playground

Age
5 to 11
Challenge level
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What can you say about the child who will be first on the playground tomorrow morning at breaktime in your school?
The hair colour game
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The hair colour game

Age
7 to 11
Challenge level
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The class were playing a maths game using interlocking cubes. Can you help them record what happened?