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More Lower Primary Number Sense and Place Value Activities

Once you've had a go at the activities in our Place Value and Number Sense Feature, try the tasks below which will deepen your understanding even further.

Next Domino

Age 5 to 7
Challenge Level Yellow star

Which comes next in each pattern of dominoes?

100 Square Jigsaw

Age 5 to 7
Challenge Level Yellow star

Can you complete this jigsaw of the 100 square?

Matching Numbers

Age 5 to 7
Challenge Level Yellow star

Can you find different ways of showing the same number? Try this matching game and see!

Count the Crayons

Age 5 to 7
Challenge Level Yellow star

How could you estimate the number of pencils/pens in these pictures?

Missing Middles

Age 5 to 7
Challenge Level Yellow starYellow star

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?

Number Match

Age 5 to 11
Challenge Level Yellow star

A task which depends on members of the group noticing the needs of others and responding.

Dotty Six

Age 5 to 11
Challenge Level Yellow star

Dotty Six is a simple dice game that you can adapt in many ways.

How Would We Count?

Age 5 to 11
Challenge Level Yellow star

An activity centred around observations of dots and how we visualise number arrangement patterns.

Hundred Square

Age 5 to 11
Challenge Level Yellow starYellow star

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

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Dominoes Environment

These interactive dominoes can be dragged around the screen.

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The NRICH Project aims to enrich the mathematical experiences of all learners. To support this aim, members of the NRICH team work in a wide range of capacities, including providing professional development for teachers wishing to embed rich mathematical tasks into everyday classroom practice.

NRICH is part of the family of activities in the Millennium Mathematics Project.

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