1. Starter Cards - NUMBER Dave Carden Liverpool LEA

2. Introduction These cards are designed to be used as mental and oral starters at Key Stages 2 to 4 Ideally they should be laminated with the sample key questions on the back Please add key questions of your own and adapt the cards to reflect the ability of your students

3. N1

4. SAMPLE KEY QUESTIONS SUPPORTCOREEXTENSION If I have 4 Liverpool, how many Everton ? If I have 12 Everton, how many Liverpool ? I have 20 badges altogether ….. I have 21 badges …. If there are 3 Liverpool badges … How many Liverpool Badges can you see? How many Everton? How many badges altogether? If I had 10 badges altogether, how many would be Liverpool, Everton ?

5. N2

6. SAMPLE KEY QUESTIONS SUPPORTCOREEXTENSION What is the 6 th term? ….10 th term, 20 th … What will the 5 th blue number be? What is the 10 th blue term? What is the nth term? Use the nth term to find the 30 th term, 50 th … What is the 1 st number in this sequence? …the 3 rd, 4th On your whiteboards, write the number that you think comes next. What will the 8 th number be? What will the next red number be?

7. N3

8. SAMPLE KEY QUESTIONS SUPPORTCOREEXTENSION What is the 6 th term? ….10 th term, 20 th … What will the 5 th blue number be? What is the 10 th blue term? What is the nth term? Use the nth term to find the 30 th term, 50 th … What is the 1 st number in this sequence? …the 3 rd, 4th On your whiteboards, write the number that you think comes next. What will the 8 th number be? What will the next red number be?

9. N4 £12

10. N4 SAMPLE KEY QUESTIONS SUPPORTCOREEXTENSION Share £12 in the ratio of 2:1, 1:2, 2:4 … Share £12 in the ratio 2:1:3, 1:1:3 …. Write the ratio 2:4 in its lowest terms …. Share £12 in the ratio 3/2 : 5/2 …… Share £12 between 2 people so that 1 person gets twice as much as the other 3 times as much Equal amounts 5 times as much

11. N5 ¼,½,¾,1…

12. N5 SAMPLE KEY QUESTIONS SUPPORTCOREEXTENSION What is the 6 th term? ….10 th term, 20 th … What will the 5 th blue number be? What is the 10 th blue term? What is the nth term? Use the nth term to find the 30 th term, 50 th … What is the 1 st number in this sequence? …the 3 rd, 4th On your whiteboards, write the number that you think comes next. What will the 8 th number be? What will the next red number be?

13. N6 2 5 16 9 23 21 4 12

14. N6 SAMPLE KEY QUESTIONS SUPPORTCOREEXTENSION Write down all the multiples of 2, 3 ….. …factors of 8 Prime numbers An even prime number The biggest prime number The number with most factors ….. Which 3 numbers added together give a total which is a prime number … a square number …a cube number … a triangle number …. …….. On your whiteboards, write down all the odd numbers Even numbers Which number is a half of …. …a third of ….a quarter of The biggest even number … Find the difference between the biggest and smallest number