Approaching Midnight Taking it Further
Here we offer some suggestions about how you could take the Approaching Midnight game further.
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?
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| 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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Student Solutions
Thank you to everybody who had a go at this activity and sent in their thoughts. We received lots of solutions for Approaching Midnight, and these can be found on the solutions page for Approaching Midnight Jump Straight In.
We haven't received any solutions that are specific to this version of the activity yet. Please email us if you have any ideas about this game that you'd like to share with us.