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Buzzy Bee

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

I Like ...

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Mr Gilderdale is playing a game with his class. What rule might he have chosen? How would you test your idea?

Light the Lights

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Investigate which numbers make these lights come on. What is the smallest number you can find that lights up all the lights?

Up and Down Donkey

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A number card game for 2-6 players.

The Thousands Game

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Each child in Class 3 took four numbers out of the bag. Who had made the highest even number?

100 Square Jigsaw

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Can you complete this jigsaw of the 100 square?

Who Can Be the Winner?

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Some children have been doing different tasks. Can you see who was the winner?

Largest Even

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How would you create the largest possible two-digit even number from the digit I've given you and one of your choice?

More Carroll Diagrams

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How have the numbers been placed in this Carroll diagram? Which labels would you put on each row and column?

Venn Diagrams

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Use the interactivities to complete these Venn diagrams.

Multiplication Square Jigsaw

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Can you complete this jigsaw of the multiplication square?

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Use the fraction wall to compare the size of these fractions - you'll be amazed how it helps!

Carroll Diagrams

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

Calendar Activities

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Don't get rid of your old calendars! You can get a lot more mathematical mileage out of them before they are thrown away. These activities, using cut up dates from the calendar, provide numbers to. . . .

The Magic Number and the Hepta-tree

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Find the exact difference between the largest ball and the smallest ball on the Hepta Tree and then use this to work out the MAGIC NUMBER!

Number Balance

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Can you hang weights in the right place to make the equaliser balance?

Birthday Cakes

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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?

Would You Rather?

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Would you rather: Have 10% of £5 or 75% of 80p? Be given 60% of 2 pizzas or 26% of 5 pizzas?

Highest and Lowest

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Put operations signs between the numbers 3 4 5 6 to make the highest possible number and lowest possible number.

Nice or Nasty

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There are nasty versions of this dice game but we'll start with the nice ones...

Weighted Numbers

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Use the number weights to find different ways of balancing the equaliser.

Being Curious - Primary Number

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Number problems for inquiring primary learners.

Sort Them Out (2)

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Can you each work out the number on your card? What do you notice? How could you sort the cards?

One to Fifteen

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Can you put the numbers from 1 to 15 on the circles so that no consecutive numbers lie anywhere along a continuous straight line?

Dicey Operations for Two

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Dicey Operations for an adult and child. Can you get close to 1000 than your partner?

Nice or Nasty for Two

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Some Games That May Be Nice or Nasty for an adult and child. Use your knowledge of place value to beat your opponent.

Greater Than or Less Than?

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Use the numbers and symbols to make this number sentence correct. How many different ways can you find?

Domino Number Patterns

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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 3 dominoes?

Factor-multiple Chains

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Can you see how these factor-multiple chains work? Find the chain which contains the smallest possible numbers. How about the largest possible numbers?

Sets of Four Numbers

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There are ten children in Becky's group. Can you find a set of numbers for each of them? Are there any other sets?

Making Trains

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Can you make a train the same length as Laura's but using three differently coloured rods? Is there only one way of doing it?

A Numbered Route

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Can you draw a continuous line through 16 numbers on this grid so that the total of the numbers you pass through is as high as possible?

Which Scripts?

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There are six numbers written in five different scripts. Can you sort out which is which?

Fair Exchange

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In your bank, you have three types of coins. The number of spots shows how much they are worth. Can you choose coins to exchange with the groups given to make the same total?

Various Venns

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Use the interactivities to complete these Venn diagrams.

Here to There 1 2 3

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Move from the START to the FINISH by moving across or down to the next square. Can you find a route to make these totals?

Dominoes Environment

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These interactive dominoes can be dragged around the screen.

Street Sequences

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Investigate what happens when you add house numbers along a street in different ways.

Move a Match

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How can you arrange these 10 matches in four piles so that when you move one match from three of the piles into the fourth, you end up with the same arrangement?

Can You Do it Too?

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Try some throwing activities and see whether you can throw something as far as the Olympic hammer or discus throwers.

Sorting the Numbers

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Complete these two jigsaws then put one on top of the other. What happens when you add the 'touching' numbers? What happens when you change the position of the jigsaws?

Robot Monsters

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Use these head, body and leg pieces to make Robot Monsters which are different heights.

Being Thoughtful - Primary Number

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Number problems at primary level that require careful consideration.

Caterpillars

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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?

Twizzle's Journey

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Twizzle, a female giraffe, needs transporting to another zoo. Which route will give the fastest journey?

Carrying Cards

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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?

Worms

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Place this "worm" on the 100 square and find the total of the four squares it covers. Keeping its head in the same place, what other totals can you make?

The Tall Tower

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As you come down the ladders of the Tall Tower you collect useful spells. Which way should you go to collect the most spells?

Diagonal Sums

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In this 100 square, look at the green square which contains the numbers 2, 3, 12 and 13. What is the sum of the numbers that are diagonally opposite each other? What do you notice?

Now and Then

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Look at the changes in results on some of the athletics track events at the Olympic Games in 1908 and 1948. Compare the results for 2012.
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