

Five steps to 50
Use five steps to count forwards or backwards in 1s or 10s to get to 50. What strategies did you use?


Dicey addition
In these addition games, you'll need to think strategically to get closest to the target.

Paper patchwork 1
Can you work out what shape is made when this piece of paper is folded up using the crease pattern shown?

Paper patchwork 2
Have a go at making a few of these shapes from paper in different sizes. What patterns can you create?

What's in a name?
What do you notice about these squares of numbers? What is the same? What is different?

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

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

Arranging additions and sorting subtractions
Order these four calculations from easiest to hardest. How did you decide?

Subtraction slip
Can you spot the mistake in this video? How would you work out the answer to this calculation?

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?


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

Tug of war
Can you use the numbers on the dice to reach your end of the number line before your partner beats you?

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


Ip dip
"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 ...?

Let's investigate triangles
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?

Sitting round the party tables
Sweets are given out to party-goers in a particular way. Investigate the total number of sweets received by people sitting in different positions.



Sticky data
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?'.

Buzzy bee
Buzzy Bee was building a honeycomb. She decorated the honeycomb with a pattern using numbers. Can you discover Buzzy's pattern and fill in the empty cells for her?


Chain of changes
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?

Missing middles
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?

Birthday cakes
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?

Heads and feet
On a farm there were some hens and sheep. Altogether there were 8 heads and 22 feet. How many hens were there?

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

Make 37
Four bags contain a large number of 1s, 3s, 5s and 7s. Can you pick any ten numbers from the bags so that their total is 37?

Eggs in baskets
There are three baskets, a brown one, a red one and a pink one, holding a total of 10 eggs. How many eggs are in each basket?

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

Little man
The Man is much smaller than us. Can you use the picture of him next to a mug to estimate his height and how much tea he drinks?

Making longer, making shorter
Ahmed is making rods using different numbers of cubes. Which rod is twice the length of his first rod?

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

Caterpillars
These caterpillars have 16 parts. What different shapes do they make if each part lies in the small squares of a 4 by 4 square?

The tomato and the bean
At the beginning of May, Tom put his tomato plant outside. On the same day he sowed a bean in another pot. When will the two be the same height?

The Brown family
Use the information about Sally and her brother to find out how many children there are in the Brown family.


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

Number round up
Arrange the numbers 1 to 6 in each set of circles below. The sum of each side of the triangle should equal the number in its centre.
