Being Resourceful - Primary All Resources
Repeating Patterns
Try continuing these patterns made from triangles. Can you create your own repeating pattern?
Turning Man
Use the interactivity to find out how many quarter turns the man must rotate through to look like each of the pictures.
Ladybird Count
Some children were playing a game. Make a graph or picture to show how many ladybirds each child had.
The Animals' Sports Day
One day five small animals in my garden were going to have a sports day. They decided to have a swimming race, a running race, a high jump and a long jump.
Wallpaper
These pieces of wallpaper need to be ordered from smallest to largest. Can you find a way to do it?
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?
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?
The Tall Tower
As you come down the ladders of the Tall Tower you collect useful spells. Which way should you go to collect the most spells?
Seeing Squares
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.
Dotty Six
Dotty Six is a simple dice game that you can adapt in many ways.
Poly Plug Rectangles
The computer has made a rectangle and will tell you the number of spots it uses in total. Can you find out where the rectangle is?
4 Dom
Use these four dominoes to make a square that has the same number of dots on each side.
Cows and Sheep
Use your logical reasoning to work out how many cows and how many sheep there are in each field.
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.
Torn Shapes
These rectangles have been torn. How many squares did each one have inside it before it was ripped?
Coded Hundred Square
This 100 square jigsaw is written in code. It starts with 1 and ends with 100. Can you build it up?
Magic Vs
Can you put the numbers 1-5 in the V shape so that both 'arms' have the same total?
Dicey Operations in Line
Who said that adding, subtracting, multiplying and dividing couldn't be fun?
Satisfying Four Statements
Can you find any two-digit numbers that satisfy all of these statements?
Shape Times Shape
These eleven shapes each stand for a different number. Can you use the number sentences to work out what they are?
A Puzzling Cube
Here are the six faces of a cube - in no particular order. Here are three views of the cube. Can you deduce where the faces are in relation to each other and record them on the net of this cube?
First Connect Three
Add or subtract the two numbers on the spinners and try to complete a row of three. Are there some numbers that are good to aim for?
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?
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?
Through the Window
My local DIY shop calculates the price of its windows according to the area of glass and the length of frame used. Can you work out how they arrived at these prices?
Sponge Sections
You have been given three shapes made out of sponge: a sphere, a cylinder and a cone. Your challenge is to find out how to cut them to make different shapes for printing.
Twenty Divided Into Six
Katie had a pack of 20 cards numbered from 1 to 20. She arranged the cards into 6 unequal piles where each pile added to the same total. What was the total and how could this be done?
Four Go
This challenge is a game for two players. Choose two of the numbers to multiply or divide, then mark your answer on the number line. Can you get four in a row?
Cut Nets
Each of the nets of nine solid shapes has been cut into two pieces. Can you see which pieces go together?
Mystery Matrix
Can you fill in this table square? The numbers 2 -12 were used to generate it with just one number used twice.
Nice or Nasty
There are nasty versions of this dice game but we'll start with the nice ones...
Missing Multipliers
What is the smallest number of answers you need to reveal in order to work out the missing headers?
Treasure Hunt
Can you find a reliable strategy for choosing coordinates that will locate the treasure in the minimum number of guesses?
The Remainders Game
Play this game and see if you can figure out the computer's chosen number.
Eight Hidden Squares
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?
Number Lines in Disguise
Some of the numbers have fallen off Becky's number line. Can you figure out what they were?
Baravelle
What can you see? What do you notice? What questions can you ask?
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