Thursday 4 May 2017

May Challenge - Years 3 & 4

When I went into a classroom earlier this week a child rushed up to tell me she was 8 that day!

Well, Happy Birthday to everyone who has a birthday today!

If you are 8 then this could be for you, but if it is another number then you just change the 8 to whatever your age is today.

There is not a lot to say to introduce this challenge. It's really just to find a great variety of ways of asking questions which make 8.  Sums like 6+222−14etc.

But you need to get examples that use all the different mathematical ideas that you know about.

1) So you could show some multiplications and some divisions.

2) If you know about fractions then you can add or subtract numbers involving fractions. You could also ask questions like "What is half of 16?''; "What is four-fifths of 10?'' and so on.

3) If you've come across decimals then do a few of those also, perhaps using all the four rules (addition, subtraction, multiplication and division).

And so on.

Use whatever mathematics you know to find as many different ways of getting the answer 8.


Solutions are to be completed by Friday 26th May.  Please post them into the Maths Challenge Box in the picture book library.