Finding All Possibilities Lower Primary
Robot Monsters
Use these head, body and leg pieces to make Robot Monsters which are different heights.
Two Dice
Find all the numbers that can be made by adding the dots on two dice.
Same Length Trains
How many trains can you make which are the same length as Matt's and Katie's, using rods that are identical?
Button-up
My coat has three buttons. How many ways can you find to do up all the buttons?
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.
6 Beads
If you put three beads onto a tens/ones abacus you can make the numbers 3, 30, 12 or 21. What numbers can be made with six beads?
A City of Towers
In this town, houses are built with one room for each person. There are some families of seven people living in the town. In how many different ways can they build their houses?
Ladybirds in the Garden
In Sam and Jill's garden there are two sorts of ladybirds with 7 spots or 4 spots. What numbers of total spots can you make?
Triangle Animals
How many different ways can you find to join three equilateral triangles together? Can you convince us that you have found them all?
Inside Triangles
How many different triangles can you draw on the dotty grid which each have one dot in the middle?
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?
Let's Investigate Triangles
Vincent and Tara are making triangles with the class construction set. They have a pile of strips of different lengths. How many different triangles can they make?
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Homes
Six new homes are being built! They can be detached, semi-detached or terraced houses. How many different combinations of these can you find?
Stairs
This challenge is to design different step arrangements, which must go along a distance of 6 on the steps and must end up at 6 high.
Train Carriages
Suppose there is a train with 24 carriages which are going to be put together to make up some new trains. Can you find all the ways that this can be done?