Sort the Street

Stage: 1 Challenge Level: Challenge Level:1

What a lot of responses we had to this problem! You found so many ways to sort the houses. A group of children from Herman First School wrote to us to say:



We found 10 groups:
roof colours 2 groups
door colours 3 groups
floor 2 groups
window numbers 2 groups
chimneys 1 group
number of doors 1 group
wall colour 1 group
window size 2 groups
number of floors 2 groups
chimney size 2 groups

I'm not sure what you mean by floor - perhaps others could explain? Maybe it is the same as "number of floors"? I guess that there is only one group for "chimneys", "number of doors" and "wall colour" because all the houses are the same in these respects, in other words they all have one chimney, one door and the same wall colour.

Lucy from Oaklands Infants found some other ways:

I sorted the houses into 3 groups because they were different styles: one group of 3 had 3 windows on 2 floors and a door on the right hand side; another group of 3 houses had 5 windows on 2 floors and a door in the middle; another group of 3 houses had 5 windows on 3 floors and a door on the right hand side.
I sorted the houses by the position of the doors:one group of 6 houses had the door on the right hand side and another group of 3 houses had the door in the middle making it symmetrical.

Gabby from Mason High School also noticed that you could sort the houses according to the steepness of their roofs.

 

Perhaps there are more ways to sort this street? I'm sure there might be if we looked carefully!


Published September 2006.