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For younger learners

  • Early Years Foundation Stage

Exploring and Justifying at KS2

Children benefit from being given opportunities to talk about their thinking.  As this thinking becomes more sophisticated it is even more important that children develop good habits in explaining their work.


Exploring Wild & Wonderful Number Patterns

Age 7 to 11
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EWWNP means Exploring Wild and Wonderful Number Patterns Created by Yourself! Investigate what happens if we create number patterns using some simple rules.

Planning a School Trip

Age 7 to 11
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You are organising a school trip and you need to write a letter to parents to let them know about the day. Use the cards to gather all the information you need.

Ip Dip

Age 5 to 11
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"Ip dip sky blue! Who's 'it'? It's you!" Where would you position yourself so that you are 'it' if there are two players? Three players ...?

Sitting Round the Party Tables

Age 5 to 11
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Sweets are given out to party-goers in a particular way. Investigate the total number of sweets received by people sitting in different positions.

Half Time

Age 5 to 11
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What could the half time scores have been in these Olympic hockey matches?

Three Neighbours

Age 7 to 14
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Take three consecutive numbers and add them together. What do you notice?

This Pied Piper of Hamelin

Age 7 to 11
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Investigate the different numbers of people and rats there could have been if you know how many legs there are altogether!

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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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