Year 2 Being resourceful

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?

On a farm there were some hens and sheep. Altogether there were 8 heads and 22 feet. How many hens were there?

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

There are three baskets, a brown one, a red one and a pink one, holding a total of 10 eggs. How many eggs are in each basket?

Use the interactivity to help get a feel for this problem and to find out all the possible ways the balls could land.

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?

Investigate which numbers make these lights come on. What is the smallest number you can find that lights up all the lights?

How many legs do each of these creatures have? How many pairs is that?

In this problem it is not the squares that jump, you do the jumping! The idea is to go round the track in as few jumps as possible.

Can you work out how many flowers there will be on the Amazing Splitting Plant after it has been growing for six weeks?

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.

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?

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?

Complete the squares - but be warned some are trickier than they look!

This is a game for two players. Can you find out how to be the first to get to 12 o'clock?

Ben and his mum are planting garlic. Can you find out how many cloves of garlic they might have had?

Use your addition and subtraction skills, combined with some strategic thinking, to beat your partner at this game.

"Ip dip sky blue! Who's 'it'? It's you!" Where would you position yourself so that you are 'it' if there are two players? Three players ...?

Can you place these quantities in order from smallest to largest?

How would you create the largest possible two-digit even number from the digit I've given you and one of your choice?

The computer has made a rectangle and will tell you the number of spots it uses in total. Can you find out where the rectangle is?

What happens when you add three numbers together? Will your answer be odd or even? How do you know?

An activity centred around observations of dots and how we visualise number arrangement patterns.

An investigation looking at doing and undoing mathematical operations focusing on doubling, halving, adding and subtracting.

Here are some arrangements of circles. How many circles would I need to make the next size up for each? Can you create your own arrangement and investigate the number of circles it needs?

In these addition games, you'll need to think strategically to get closest to the target.

Are these statements relating to odd and even numbers always true, sometimes true or never true?

Use the interactivities to fill in these Carroll diagrams. How do you know where to place the numbers?

Ben has five coins in his pocket. How much money might he have?

Four bags contain a large number of 1s, 3s, 5s and 7s. Can you pick ten numbers from the bags so that their total is 37?