Suggestions for use: • What do you see in this picture? • Does anyone know any story they could tell about what they see? • How many different colours can you see? • What colours do you see? • What does this colour combination remind you of e.g. County colour? • What shapes do you see? • What is that shape called? • How many blue blocks? • How many red blocks? • How many yellow blocks? • What shape do the yellow and blue blocks joined together make? • If you added more squares, what would you add to keep the pattern? • Where would you put any new squares you might add to the picture? • What game could you play using these shapes? • What does this picture remind you of? • How would the picture have to change to play hopscotch? • What way would you number the squares to play hopscotch? • How do you play this game? • How many hops do you need to get to the top? • If I was on the first blue square how many steps would I take to get to........? • If you hop up to the top and back again – how many hops altogether? • Can you find a line of symmetry in this picture? • Trace the steps you would take on your own hopscotch diagram. • Why do the shapes at the top of the picture appear narrower than the bottom? • Can you think up a maths problem based on this picture for the other groups?