These activities are part of our Primary collections, which are problems grouped by topic.
What shape and colour?
Can you fill in the empty boxes in the grid with the right shape and colour?
Ladybird count
Some children were playing a game. Make a graph or picture to show how many ladybirds each child had.
Sort the street
Sort the houses in my street into different groups. Can you do it in any other ways?
Guess the houses
Button-up
Beads and bags
Sticky data
If the world were a village
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
Noah
Noah saw 12 legs walk by into the Ark. How many creatures did he see?
Three block towers
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
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
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
The hair colour game