Being collaborative

Can you work out how to make each side of this balance equally balanced? You can put more than one weight on a hook.

Explore ways of colouring this set of triangles. Can you make symmetrical patterns?

In this activity, shapes can be arranged by changing either the colour or the shape each time. Can you find a way to do it?

Can you work out the domino pieces which would go in the middle in each case to complete the pattern of these eight sets of three dominoes?

Pat counts her sweets in different groups and both times she has some left over. How many sweets could she have had?

Jack's mum bought some candles to use on his birthday cakes and when his sister was born, she used them on her cakes too. Can you use the information to find out when Kate was born?

What do you notice about these squares of numbers? What is the same? What is different?

How many balls of modelling clay and how many straws does it take to make these skeleton shapes?

As you come down the ladders of the Tall Tower you collect useful spells. Which way should you go to collect the most spells?

Choose four of the numbers from 1 to 9 to put in the squares so that the differences between joined squares are odd.