Understanding Information
Sticky Data
You'll need to work in a group on this problem. Use your sticky notes to show the answer to questions such as 'how many girls are there in your group?'.
Ladybird Count
Some children were playing a game. Make a graph or picture to show how many ladybirds each child had.
Sort the Street
Sort the houses in my street into different groups. Can you do it in any other ways?
Button-up
My coat has three buttons. How many ways can you find to do up all the buttons?
Guess the Houses
This task depends on learners sharing reasoning, listening to opinions, reflecting and pulling ideas together.
What Shape and Colour?
Can you fill in the empty boxes in the grid with the right shape and colour?
Three Ball Line Up
Use the interactivity to help get a feel for this problem and to find out all the possible ways the balls could land.
Noah
Noah saw 12 legs walk by into the Ark. How many creatures did he see?
3 Blocks Towers
Take three differently coloured blocks - maybe red, yellow and blue. Make a tower using one of each colour. How many different towers can you make?
Mixed-up Socks
Start with three pairs of socks. Now mix them up so that no mismatched pair is the same as another mismatched pair. Is there more than one way to do it?
If the World Were a Village
This activity is based on data in the book 'If the World Were a Village'. How will you represent your chosen data for maximum effect?
Beads and Bags
How could you put these three beads into bags? How many different ways can you do it? How could you record what you've done?
In the Playground
What can you say about the child who will be first on the playground tomorrow morning at breaktime in your school?
Plants
Three children are going to buy some plants for their birthdays. They will plant them within circular paths. How could they do this?
The Hair Colour Game
The class were playing a maths game using interlocking cubes. Can you help them record what happened?