The learning activity ‘Pinning It Down’ poses problems students need to discuss and solve by using number knowledge and strategies. Two are number puzzles and two involve the lines and angles of shapes. An answer sheet is provided and includes teaching notes to support learning and further exploration.
The learning activity ‘Power to the People’ uses four interesting and very varied problems to encourage students to use their knowledge of operations and strategies. They need to work out how to provide utilities to houses, find patterns in calculator displays, and discover the possible arrangements of colours on flags as they discuss and solve …More