The learning activity, ‘Animal Antics’ supports the exploration of triangular numbers and their special properties. Using two fun activities, students identify the way triangular number sequences can be formed. An answer sheet is provided and includes accompanying teaching notes with suggestions for supporting learning and further exploration.
This content area reading learning activity ‘Preview and Predict’ allows students to develop their critical thinking skills by asking them to use the title, cover and illustrations of a book to predict what they might learn from reading it. Students are then asked to create their own cover, title and illustrations for the book to …More
This learning activity ‘Superbeans’ provides two examples of ways to investigate probability, using first two-differences (coin toss) then three-differences (coloured beans). An answer sheet is provided and includes accompanying teaching notes with suggestions for supporting learning and further exploration.
This learning activity, ‘Take Five’, explores probability, sampling, and variation. Students take a series of coloured tiles from a bag and use these samples as the basis for predictions about the unseen contents of the bag. An answer sheet is provided and includes teaching notes with suggestions for supporting learning and further exploration.