Numeracy: maths in your head - lesson starters and enders
Numeracy: maths in your head - lesson starters and enders
Numeracy: maths in your head - lesson starters and enders
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Today's the Day<br />
Aim To develop students' underst<strong>and</strong><strong>in</strong>g of <strong>and</strong> facility with number.<br />
Description Write the date <strong>in</strong> the form: 23. 9. 98<br />
Keep<strong>in</strong>g the date digits <strong>in</strong> order <strong>and</strong> us<strong>in</strong>g any operation, or brackets,<br />
make as many numbers as possible.<br />
e.g.<br />
23 + 9 + 98 = 130<br />
23 + 9 + 9 + 8 = 49<br />
2 + 3 + 99 + 8 = 112<br />
2(3 + 9) + (9 - 8) = 25<br />
To create more of a challenge, make the number less than 100.<br />
The whole class's results can then be compiled on a 1 - 100 grid.<br />
The student who f<strong>in</strong>ds a number that no one else has found, can be<br />
asked to show the method used.<br />
Variation Use digits <strong>in</strong> any order <strong>and</strong> record numbers on a 1 - 100 grid.<br />
Students are then asked to try to make those miss<strong>in</strong>g numbers from<br />
the date of the next <strong>maths</strong> <strong>lesson</strong>.
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