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Year 4 Being Collaborative

Times Tables Shifts
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Times tables shifts

Age
7 to 11
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In this activity, the computer chooses a times table and shifts it. Can you work out the table and the shift each time?

Four Triangles Puzzle
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Four triangles puzzle

Age
5 to 11
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Cut four triangles from a square as shown in the picture. How many different shapes can you make by fitting the four triangles back together?

Counters in the middle
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Counters in the middle

Age
7 to 11
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This task depends on groups working collaboratively, discussing and reasoning to agree a final product.

What shape?
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What shape?

Age
7 to 14
Challenge level
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This task develops spatial reasoning skills. By framing and asking questions a member of the team has to find out what mathematical object they have chosen.

A Cartesian Puzzle
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A Cartesian puzzle

Age
7 to 11
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Find the missing coordinates which will form these eight quadrilaterals. These coordinates themselves will then form a shape with rotational and line symmetry.

Bryony's Triangle
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Bryony's triangle

Age
7 to 11
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Watch the video to see how to fold a square of paper to create a flower. What fraction of the piece of paper is the small triangle?

The Deca Tree
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The deca tree

Age
7 to 11
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Find out what a Deca Tree is and then work out how many leaves there will be after the woodcutter has cut off a trunk, a branch, a twig and a leaf.
Discuss and Choose
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Discuss and choose

Age
5 to 11
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This activity challenges you to decide on the 'best' number to use in each statement. You may need to do some estimating, some calculating and some research.

Fractional Triangles
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Fractional triangles

Age
7 to 11
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Use the lines on this figure to show how the square can be divided into 2 halves, 3 thirds, 6 sixths and 9 ninths.

Let us divide!
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Let us divide!

Age
7 to 11
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Look at different ways of dividing things. What do they mean? How might you show them in a picture, with things, with numbers and symbols?
How Big Are Classes 5, 6 and 7?
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How big are classes 5, 6 and 7?

Age
7 to 11
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Use the two sets of data to find out how many children there are in Classes 5, 6 and 7.

Carrying Cards
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Carrying cards

Age
7 to 11
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These sixteen children are standing in four lines of four, one behind the other. They are each holding a card with a number on it. Can you work out the missing numbers?
Seeing Squares
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Seeing squares

Age
5 to 11
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Players take it in turns to choose a dot on the grid. The winner is the first to have four dots that can be joined to form a square.

Coordinate Challenge
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Coordinate challenge

Age
7 to 11
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Use the clues about the symmetrical properties of these letters to place them on the grid.
Representing Numbers
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Representing numbers

Age
7 to 11
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Find as many different ways of representing this number of dots as you can.
Seeing Parallelograms
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Seeing parallelograms

Age
7 to 11
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Players take it in turns to choose a dot on the grid. The winner is the first to have four dots that can be joined to form a parallelogram.

Shape Times Shape
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Shape times shape

Age
7 to 11
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These eleven shapes each stand for a different number. Can you use the number sentences to work out what they are?

Venn diagrams
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Venn diagrams

Age
5 to 11
Challenge level
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How will you complete these interactive Venn diagrams?

Chocolate
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Chocolate

Age
7 to 14
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There are three tables in a room with blocks of chocolate on each. Where would be the best place for each child in the class to sit if they came in one at a time?

Table patterns go wild!
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Table patterns go wild!

Age
7 to 11
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Nearly all of us have made table patterns on hundred squares, that is 10 by 10 grids. This problem looks at the patterns on differently sized square grids.
Fractions in a Box
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Fractions in a box

Age
7 to 11
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The discs for this game are kept in a flat square box with a square hole for each. Use the information to find out how many discs of each colour there are in the box.

Quad match
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Quad match

Age
7 to 11
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A task which depends on members of the group noticing the needs of others and responding.

Remainders
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Remainders

Age
7 to 14
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I'm thinking of a number. My number is both a multiple of 5 and a multiple of 6. What could my number be?

Stringy Quads
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Stringy quads

Age
7 to 11
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This practical problem challenges you to make quadrilaterals with a loop of string. You'll need some friends to help!

What Distance?
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What distance?

Age
7 to 11
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Can you use addition and subtraction to answer these questions about real-life distances?

Multiples Grid
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Multiples grid

Age
7 to 11
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What do the numbers shaded in blue on this hundred square have in common? What do you notice about the pink numbers? How about the shaded numbers in the other squares?

Eight hidden squares
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Eight hidden squares

Age
7 to 14
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On the graph there are 28 marked points. These points all mark the vertices (corners) of eight hidden squares. Can you find the eight hidden squares?

ReflectoR ! RotcelfeR
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ReflectoR ! RotcelfeR

Age
7 to 11
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Can you place the blocks so that you see the reflection in the picture?