Always, sometimes or never? KS1
Are these statements relating to calculation and properties of shapes always true, sometimes true or never true?
Eightness of eight
Biscuit decorations
One big triangle
Make one big triangle so the numbers that touch on the small triangles add to 10.
Butterfly flowers
Can you find two butterflies to go on each flower so that the numbers on each pair of butterflies adds to the number on their flower?
Robot monsters
Same length trains
Domino sorting
Snap
Sort them out (1)
Jig shapes
Can you each work out what shape you have part of on your card? What will the rest of it look like?
Thirsty?
Can you lay out the pictures of the drinks in the way described by the clue cards?
All change
There are three versions of this challenge. The idea is to change the colour of all the spots on the grid. Can you do it in fewer throws of the dice?
How tall?
A group of children are discussing the height of a tall tree. How would you go about finding out its height?
How do you see it?
Here are some short problems for you to try. Talk to your friends about how you work them out.
Can you do it too?
Try some throwing activities and see whether you can throw something as far as the Olympic hammer or discus throwers.
Making sticks
Wallpaper
These pieces of wallpaper need to be ordered from smallest to largest. Can you find a way to do it?
Overlaps
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.
Grouping goodies
Pat counts her sweets in different groups and both times she has some left over. How many sweets could she have had?