Being Resourceful - Lower Primary Students
Being Resourceful - Lower Primary Number
Number problems for lower primary that will get you thinking.
Being Resourceful - Lower Primary Measures
Measure problems for lower primary that will get you thinking.
Being Resourceful - Lower Primary Geometry
Geometry problems for lower primary that will get you thinking.
Being Resourceful - Lower Primary Statistics
Statistics problems for lower primary that will get you thinking.
Five Steps to 50
Use five steps to count forwards or backwards in 1s or 10s to get to 50. What strategies did you use?
Biscuit Decorations
Andrew decorated 20 biscuits to take to a party. He lined them up and put icing on every second biscuit and different decorations on other biscuits. How many biscuits weren't decorated?
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.
Turning Man
Use the interactivity to find out how many quarter turns the man must rotate through to look like each of the pictures.
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?
Ring a Ring of Numbers
Choose four of the numbers from 1 to 9 to put in the squares so that the differences between joined squares are odd.
Wallpaper
These pieces of wallpaper need to be ordered from smallest to largest. Can you find a way to do it?
More Numbers in the Ring
If there are 3 squares in the ring, can you place three different numbers in them so that their differences are odd? Try with different numbers of squares around the ring. What do you notice?
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?
Rolling That Cube
My dice has inky marks on each face. Can you find the route it has taken? What does each face look like?
Shaping It
These pictures were made by starting with a square, finding the half-way point on each side and joining those points up. You could investigate your own starting shape.
Dotty Six
Dotty Six is a simple dice game that you can adapt in many ways.
Cubes
How many faces can you see when you arrange these three cubes in different ways?
Square It
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.
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