Use this activity to give pupils opportunities to use their knowledge and understanding of numbers and the four operations. Pupils who have some spreadsheet skills will benefit from exploring this activity.

It would be good to do a warm up exercise in taking a set of numbers and seeing the various solutions you can get by using addition, subtraction, division and multiplication in different orders.

Tell me how you moved from this idea to your next idea.

Exploring those numbers that would not be as useful as others on the daisy.

Calculators, spreadsheet.