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Year 2 being collaborative

100 Square Jigsaw
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100 square jigsaw

Age
5 to 7
Challenge level
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Can you complete this jigsaw of the 100 square?

Growing Garlic
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Growing garlic

Age
5 to 11
Challenge level
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Ben and his mum are planting garlic. Can you find out how many cloves of garlic they might have had?

Fruity Pairs
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Fruity pairs

Age
5 to 7
Challenge level
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Which two items of fruit could Kate and Sam choose? Can you order the prices from lowest to highest?

Matching Triangles
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Matching triangles

Age
5 to 7
Challenge level
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Can you sort these triangles into three different families and explain how you did it?

Tug of War
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Tug of war

Age
5 to 7
Challenge level
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Can you use the numbers on the dice to reach your end of the number line before your partner beats you?

Strike it out
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Strike it out

Age
5 to 11
Challenge level
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Use your addition and subtraction skills, combined with some strategic thinking, to beat your partner at this game.

Even and odd
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Even and odd

Age
5 to 7
Challenge level
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This activity is best done with a whole class or in a large group. Can you match the cards? What happens when you add pairs of the numbers together?

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How many?

This project challenges you to work out the number of cubes hidden under a cloth. What questions would you like to ask?

En-counters
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En-counters

Age
5 to 7
Challenge level
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This task requires learners to explain and help others, asking and answering questions.

I'm Eight
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I'm eight

Age
5 to 11
Challenge level
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Find a great variety of ways of asking questions which make 8.

Shapely Lines
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Shapely lines

Age
5 to 7
Challenge level
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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?

Let's Investigate Triangles
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Let's investigate triangles

Age
5 to 7
Challenge level
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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?

Ip Dip
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Ip dip

Age
5 to 11
Challenge level
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"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 ...?

The add and take-away path
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The add and take-away path

Age
5 to 7
Challenge level
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Two children made up a game as they walked along the garden paths. Can you find out their scores? Can you find some paths of your own?

Next Domino
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Next domino

Age
5 to 7
Challenge level
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Which comes next in each pattern of dominoes?

Order, Order!
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Order, order!

Age
5 to 11
Challenge level
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Can you place these quantities in order from smallest to largest?

What is the time?
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What is the time?

Age
5 to 11
Challenge level
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Can you put these times on the clocks in order? You might like to arrange them in a circle.

Half Time
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Half time

Age
5 to 11
Challenge level
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What could the half time scores have been in these Olympic hockey matches?

problem

Poly plug pattern

Age
5 to 7
Challenge level
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Create a pattern on the small grid. How could you extend your pattern on the larger grid?

Data shapes
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Data shapes

Age
5 to 7
Challenge level
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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?

Building with Solid Shapes
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Building with solid shapes

Age
5 to 7
Challenge level
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We have a box of cubes, triangular prisms, cones, cuboids, cylinders and tetrahedrons. Which of the buildings would fall down if we tried to make them?

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?'.

Domino Sequences
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Domino sequences

Age
5 to 7
Challenge level
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Find the next two dominoes in these sequences.

That number square
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That number square

Age
5 to 11
Challenge level
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Exploring the structure of a number square: how quickly can you put the number tiles in the right place on the grid?

Matching Time
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Matching time

Age
5 to 7
Challenge level
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Try this matching game which will help you recognise different ways of saying the same time interval.

What's in a Name?
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What's in a name?

Age
5 to 7
Challenge level
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What do you notice about these squares of numbers? What is the same? What is different?

Round the Two Dice
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Round the two dice

Age
5 to 7
Challenge level
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This activity focuses on rounding to the nearest 10.

Double or Halve?
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Double or halve?

Age
5 to 7
Challenge level
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Throw the dice and decide whether to double or halve the number. Will you be the first to reach the target?

Break it up!
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Break it up!

Age
5 to 11
Challenge level
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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?

Paper Patchwork 1
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Paper patchwork 1

Age
5 to 7
Challenge level
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Can you work out what shape is made when this piece of paper is folded up using the crease pattern shown?

Paper Patchwork 2
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Paper patchwork 2

Age
5 to 7
Challenge level
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Have a go at making a few of these shapes from paper in different sizes. What patterns can you create?

Cuisenaire Counting
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Cuisenaire counting

Age
5 to 7
Challenge level
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Here are some rods that are different colours. How could I make a yellow rod using white and red rods?

Paper Partners
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Paper partners

Age
5 to 7
Challenge level
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Can you describe a piece of paper clearly enough for your partner to know which piece it is?

Always, Sometimes or Never?
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Always, sometimes or never?

Age
5 to 11
Challenge level
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Are these statements relating to odd and even numbers always true, sometimes true or never true?

Carroll Diagrams
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Carroll diagrams

Age
5 to 11
Challenge level
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Use the interactivities to fill in these Carroll diagrams. How do you know where to place the numbers?

Are you well Balanced?
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Are you well balanced?

Age
5 to 7
Challenge level
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Can you work out how to make each side of this balance equally balanced? You can put more than one weight on a hook.

Birthday Sharing
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Birthday sharing

Age
5 to 7
Challenge level
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It's Sahila's birthday and she is having a party. How could you answer these questions using a picture, with things, with numbers or symbols?

Cover the Camel
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Cover the camel

Age
5 to 7
Challenge level
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Can you cover the camel with these pieces?

Tables Teaser
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Tables teaser

Age
5 to 7
Challenge level
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How will you work out which numbers have been used to create this multiplication square?

Clapping Times
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Clapping times

Age
5 to 7
Challenge level
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If you count from 1 to 20 and clap more loudly on the numbers in the two times table, as well as saying those numbers loudly, which numbers will be loud?

How Many?
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How many?

Age
5 to 11
Challenge level
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Have a look at these photos of different fruit. How many do you see? How did you count?

Secret Number
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Secret number

Age
5 to 7
Challenge level
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Annie and Ben are playing a game with a calculator. What was Annie's secret number?

Five Coins
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Five coins

Age
5 to 11
Challenge level
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Ben has five coins in his pocket. How much money might he have?

Colouring Triangles
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Colouring triangles

Age
5 to 7
Challenge level
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Explore ways of colouring this set of triangles. Can you make symmetrical patterns?

Chain of Changes
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Chain of changes

Age
5 to 7
Challenge level
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In this activity, shapes can be arranged by changing either the colour or the shape each time. Can you find a way to do it?

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The puzzling sweet shop

Age
5 to 11
Challenge level
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There were cola bottles for 2p, mini eggs for 3p, marshmallow twists for 5p and lollipops for 7p in the sweet shop. What could each of the children buy with their money?

Jumping squares
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Jumping squares

Age
5 to 7
Challenge level
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In this problem it is not the squares that jump, you do the jumping! The idea is to go round the track in as few jumps as possible.

Missing Middles
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Missing middles

Age
5 to 7
Challenge level
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Can you work out the domino pieces which would go in the middle in each case to complete the pattern of these eight sets of three dominoes?

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Birthday cakes

Age
5 to 7
Challenge level
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Jack's mum bought some candles to use on his birthday cakes and when his sister was born, she used them on her cakes too. Can you use the information to find out when Kate was born?

Skeleton Shapes
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Skeleton shapes

Age
5 to 7
Challenge level
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How many balls of modelling clay and how many straws does it take to make these skeleton shapes?

Hundred Square Poster
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Hundred square

Age
5 to 11
Challenge level
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A hundred square has been printed on both sides of a piece of paper. What is on the back of 100? 58? 23? 19?

Ring a Ring of Numbers
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Ring a ring of numbers

Age
5 to 7
Challenge level
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Choose four of the numbers from 1 to 9 to put in the squares so that the differences between joined squares are odd.

Stop the Clock
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Stop the clock

Age
5 to 7
Challenge level
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This is a game for two players. Can you find out how to be the first to get to 12 o'clock?

Cubes Cut into Four Pieces
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Cubes cut into four pieces

Age
5 to 7
Challenge level
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Eight children each had a cube made from modelling clay. They cut them into four pieces which were all exactly the same shape and size. Whose pieces are the same? Can you decide who made each set?

More Numbers in the Ring
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More numbers in the ring

Age
5 to 7
Challenge level
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If there are 3 squares in the ring, can you place three different numbers in them so that their differences are odd? Try with different numbers of squares around the ring. What do you notice?

Which symbol?
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Which symbol?

Age
7 to 11
Challenge level
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Choose a symbol to put into the number sentence.