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Match each of the five word problems below to its equation and solution.
Make up your own word problem, equation and solution.
Click here for a sheet giving 15 cards that can be cut out for sorting.
Click here to download the MATCHING EQUATIONS worksheet.
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This is a puzzle and game for 2 players or 2 teams. When you first meet it, play cooperatively rather than competitively. First think of this as a puzzle. Match the regular polygons with stars so that each polygon-star pair has a different shape combination to all the others, showing a different […]
The formulas below have been rearranged, some are correct and others are wrong. Decide which are right and which are wrong and be prepared to explain why. The first one has been done for you. 1. Distance time formula: $s = ut + \frac{1}{2}at^2$ (s = distance, u = initial velocity, a = acceleration, t […]
Here are 4 cubes joined together. If you have some cubes, make this object.
These cubes can be drawn on dotty paper. Copy this drawing and, with a bit of practice, you will be able to draw cubes on dotty paper.
This triangular pattern of dots is called isometric because the distances […]
(1) A small boat leaves a harbour H and travels due East (bearing 090 degrees) for 40 km to a marker buoy B and then sails directly towards a lighthouse L which is 24 km from B. It then returns to the harbour H, that is a distance of 57 km on […]
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Sheep Talk The first sheep talk word is A. To find the next term in the word sequence, each A is replaced by B […]
To make your 7-piece Tangram Puzzle, either make your own tangram pieces from scrap paper as shown in this video or use this diagram and carefully cut out the pieces.
Now use the pieces of your Tangram to make
• An isosceles triangle
• A rectangle
• A […]
This is a classic Chinese Tangram. Each of the people illustrated, and thirteen convex polygons, can be made with the 7 pieces and there are hundreds of other puzzles based on this tangram.
Can you find a way to fold a sheet of paper so that you can cut out the tangram pieces […]
Arrange the 7 tangram pieces to make the shape in the grey picture.
What do you notice about the pattern? Draw the pattern and make a list of what you see in it.
Describe the shapes of the tangram pieces.
What is the same and what is different about the shapes of […]
Six bags of sweets each contain green, white, yellow, orange and red sweets with equal numbers of each colour (5 flavours).
You pick sweets from the bag without looking. If you pick 2 sweets what different combinations of colours can you get?
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