Exploring and noticing

The Man is much smaller than us. Can you use the picture of him next to a mug to estimate his height and how much tea he drinks?

These pieces of wallpaper need to be ordered from smallest to largest. Can you find a way to do it?

Ahmed is making rods using different numbers of cubes. Which rod is twice the length of his first rod?

Annie and Ben are playing a game with a calculator. What was Annie's secret number?

These caterpillars have 16 parts. What different shapes do they make if each part lies in the small squares of a 4 by 4 square?

Use five steps to count forwards or backwards in 1s or 10s to get to 50. What strategies did you use?

Arrange the numbers 1 to 6 in each set of circles below. The sum of each side of the triangle should equal the number in its centre.

Can you split each of the shapes below in half so that the two parts are exactly the same?

At the beginning of May, Tom put his tomato plant outside. On the same day he sowed a bean in another pot. When will the two be the same height?

Use the information about Sally and her brother to find out how many children there are in the Brown family.