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+2, 22−14, etc.
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.
