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DOWNLOAD the Maths Week England 2024 30-Minute Lesson details
Resources needed: pencil and paper, 5 by 5 grids, 2 sets of cards numbered 1 to 10, envelope or bag.
Warm-up (5 minutes)
For the 3 […]
Both players start with zero points and take turns to throw the dice as many times as they like adding the total at each throw to their score.
Suppose you throw a double one. On the next throw, is your chance of throwing a double one the same, more likely or less […]
Put 11 cards numbered 2 to 12 into a bag. Each player then draws a card giving them a horse. If there are fewer than 11 players, they can draw more than one horse. To assign the last few horses, players throw a die and, if they throw a six, they draw another […]
In the Lucky Numbers Game 6 balls are numbered 1 to 6 and 3 balls are chosen at random, without replacing any of the balls, so that 3 different winning numbers are chosen. There is no significance in the order of the numbers.
When you play this game you get a ticket with […]
In the Mathopia Lottery, 49 balls numbered 1 to 49 are mixed up and 6 different winning numbers are chosen by choosing 6 balls at random without replacing any of the balls. You can do this with numbered cards instead of balls. To play the game, all the players make their own […]
For scissors hold out 2 fingers like a pair of scissors.
For paper hold your hand out flat.
For rock clench your hand into a fist.
Count 1 , 2, 3 and then, at the same time, both players make one of the signs: scissors, or paper or […]
Place in a bag or envelope two balls (or cards) with odd numbers on them, and 3 with even numbers, and play the 2 Odds in 5 game, for example with balls numbered 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6. Pick out two balls or cards at random without replacing the first one. […]
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?
This is a game for 2 players. You need a pack of 52 playing cards. Shuffle the cards. One player is dealer and turns the cards face up one at a time. Before seeing the card, the other player must say ‘red’ or ‘black’ and wins […]
In a group of 23 people there is more than a 50% chance that two will have the same birthday? Does that surprise you?
Including February 29th how many different birthdays can there be? Start with any 3 people A, B and C. What is the probability that B has a different birthday from […]
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