Practice Makes Perfect - Upper Primary
Sorting Logic Blocks
This activity focuses on similarities and differences between shapes.
Mobile Numbers
In this investigation, you are challenged to make mobile phone numbers which are easy to remember. What happens if you make a sequence adding 2 each time?
Strike it Out
Use your addition and subtraction skills, combined with some strategic thinking, to beat your partner at this game.
Totality
This is an adding game for two players. Can you be the first to reach the target?
Brush Loads
How can you arrange the 5 cubes so that you need the smallest number of Brush Loads of paint to cover them? Try with other numbers of cubes as well.
Dicey Operations in Line for Two
Dicey Operations for an adult and child. Can you get close to 1000 than your partner?
28 - Upward and Onward
Can you find ways of joining cubes together so that 28 faces are visible?
Sending and Receiving Cards
This challenge asks you to investigate the total number of cards that would be sent if four children send one to all three others. How many would be sent if there were five children? Six?
Times Tables Shifts
In this activity, the computer chooses a times table and shifts it. Can you work out the table and the shift each time?
Alien Counting
Investigate the different ways these aliens count in this challenge. You could start by thinking about how each of them would write our number 7.
Nice or Nasty
There are nasty versions of this dice game but we'll start with the nice ones...