Brush Loads
This NRICH maths activity is a very practical as well as a visual situation. It can help pupils' development of the concepts associated with area - surface area. Pupils will need to imagine they have a whole collection of cubes and they 're going to paint the outside that's visible once they 've put them together.…
Chocolate
This NRICH maths problem is an excellent problem for helping youngsters to develop their concepts of fractions It's not so much to do with arithmetical manipulation of fractions but more to do with youngsters exploring and developing their ideas of fractions. It involves visualising and calculating mentally. Reasoning skills…
5/5- Publication year: 2000 - 2009
- Open-ended task
Make 37
This NRICH maths investigation offers learners the chance to apply basic number properties and operations, and will challenge the idea of mathematical problems having one right answer. This activity is an opportunity to encourage children to generalise and, even at this level, they can be asked to prove these generalisations. They…
- 5/5
- Publication year: 2000 - 2009
- Open-ended task