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

How do you do it?
This group activity will encourage you to share calculation strategies and to think about which strategy might be the most efficient.

The car that passes
What statements can you make about the car that passes the school gates at 11am on Monday? How will you come up with statements and test your ideas?

Journeys in Numberland
Tom and Ben visited Numberland. Use the maps to work out the number of points each of their routes scores.

The Domesday Project
Take a look at these data collected by children in 1986 as part of the Domesday Project. What do they tell you? What do you think about the way they are presented?

Take three numbers
What happens when you add three numbers together? Will your answer be odd or even? How do you know?

Play to 37
In this game for two players, the idea is to take it in turns to choose 1, 3, 5 or 7. The winner is the first to make the total 37.

Square corners
What is the greatest number of counters you can place on the grid below without four of them lying at the corners of a square?

What do you need?

Magic Vs
Can you put the numbers 1-5 in the V shape so that both 'arms' have the same total?

Sealed solution
Ten cards are put into five envelopes so that there are two cards in each envelope. The sum of the numbers inside it is written on each envelope. What numbers could be inside the envelopes?

Got it
A game for two people, or play online. Given a target number, say 23, and a range of numbers to choose from, say 1-4, players take it in turns to add to the running total to hit their target.

Overlaps
What does the overlap of these two shapes look like? Try picturing it in your head and then use some cut-out shapes to test your prediction.

Inky cube
This cube has ink on each face which leaves marks on paper as it is rolled. Can you work out what is on each face and the route it has taken?
