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For younger learners
Early Years Foundation Stage
Number Patterns
Explore these lower primary activities which focus on making, recognising and continuing number patterns. Push yourself to try and explain why the patterns occur.
Domino Patterns
Age
5 to 7
Challenge Level
What patterns can you make with a set of dominoes?
Ring a Ring of Numbers
Age
5 to 7
Challenge Level
Choose four of the numbers from 1 to 9 to put in the squares so that the differences between joined squares are odd.
Lots of Lollies
Age
5 to 7
Challenge Level
Frances and Rishi were given a bag of lollies. They shared them out evenly and had one left over. How many lollies could there have been in the bag?