Approaching midnight: taking it further

Here we offer some suggestions about how you could take the Approaching Midnight game further.

Age
7 to 14
Exploring and noticing Working systematically Conjecturing and generalising Visualising and representing Reasoning, convincing and proving
Being curious Being resourceful Being resilient Being collaborative

Problem



If you are fascinated by the structure of the Approaching Midnight game, you could look at what happens if you use numbers or counters instead of a clock.

Can you generalise the structure of this game?

 

 

Approaching Midnight Taking it Further
What did you have to do to be able make connections between the clocks, counters and numbers?

What did you have to do to be able to generalise?

What was it about 'playing around' that helped you to generalise?



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