Activities for Nigel Nine

Activities for sharing, odd and even numbers:

• Help with laying the table and putting the correct number of plates, cutlery around.
• Work out how many food items each person will get. E.g. Fish fingers, or sausages, or potatoes.
• Find different ways of sharing out flowers between two vases, or cakes into tins. There are many ways but only one is fair.
• When playing team games, can you work out how many will be on each side. Will it work out equally?
• Share out a packet of sweets between family members or friends. Can you find a method of doing it fairly?
• Cutting sandwiches, cakes, apples in half, how many different ways can it be done?
• If you cut a sandwich into 4 or 8 pieces and you eat half of the pieces - how many would that be?
• Share out books equally on two shelves.
• Share out different numbers of biscuits between two plates. E.g. 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 etc. If there is one left over it could be eaten! Can you spot when that is going to happen?