Year 2 Being Collaborative

This task requires learners to explain and help others, asking and answering questions.

This challenge invites you to create your own picture using just straight lines. Can you identify shapes with the same number of sides and decorate them in the same way?

"Ip dip sky blue! Who's 'it'? It's you!" Where would you position yourself so that you are 'it' if there are two players? Three players ...?

Can you place these quantities in order from smallest to largest?

Vincent and Tara are making triangles with the class construction set. They have a pile of strips of different lengths. How many different triangles can they make?

Create a pattern on the small grid. How could you extend your pattern on the larger grid?

Sara and Will were sorting some pictures of shapes on cards. "I'll collect the circles," said Sara. "I'll take the red ones," answered Will. Can you see any cards they would both want?

Try this matching game which will help you recognise different ways of saying the same time interval.

Can you describe a piece of paper clearly enough for your partner to know which piece it is?

Are these statements relating to odd and even numbers always true, sometimes true or never true?

Use the interactivities to fill in these Carroll diagrams. How do you know where to place the numbers?

In how many different ways can you break up a stick of seven interlocking cubes? Now try with a stick of eight cubes and a stick of six cubes. What do you notice?

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

Which two items of fruit could Kate and Sam choose? Can you order the prices from lowest to highest?

Ben and his mum are planting garlic. Can you find out how many cloves of garlic they might have had?

Can you sort these triangles into three different families and explain how you did it?

Use your addition and subtraction skills, combined with some strategic thinking, to beat your partner at this game.

If you put three beads onto a tens/ones abacus you can make the numbers 3, 30, 12 or 21. What numbers can be made with six beads?

Explore ways of colouring this set of triangles. Can you make symmetrical patterns?

Arrange the shapes in a line so that you change either colour or shape in the next piece along. Can you find several ways to start with a blue triangle and end with a red circle?

How many balls of modelling clay and how many straws does it take to make these skeleton shapes?

A hundred square has been printed on both sides of a piece of paper. What is on the back of 100? 58? 23? 19?

Annie and Ben are playing a game with a calculator. What was Annie's secret number?

This is a game for two players. Can you find out how to be the first to get to 12 o'clock?