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Building with colours

No explanation this time. Drop colours in, take them out, and find the number they make. See what you start to notice.

Two things only: notice and play. Nothing to memorise, no right way to begin. Add a colour, make a guess, change your mind. Keep going, and the patterns will come to you.

Tap a colour to drop it in. Tap a disk to take it out. Then guess its number on the grid.

Some numbers can be built. Some can't. That's part of it.

Got the cards?Free Prime Colours activities: factors, fractions, LCM and more.

Keep playing

Free puzzles and ideas for playing with numbers, a few minutes at a time.

Make it hands-on

The colours as real disks to build with on the table, where the noticing happens best.

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