In our Celebrating Solutions Feature, we suggest that solutions published on the NRICH website can make a useful teaching resource in their own right. You could use the published solutions with colleagues, in a staff meeting for example, or with your own children as part of a lesson.
The tasks below, and in particular their published solutions, lend themselves to use in the classroom with children and we have gathered them into three groups:
The tasks below, and in particular their published solutions, lend themselves to use in the classroom with children and we have gathered them into three groups:
- Those that might help analyse reasoning
- Those that include a 'slip-up' or incomplete solution
- Those that will help your learners appreciate different approaches
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Analysing others' reasoning
These tasks have been deliberately designed to integrate learners' work, which makes them a great tool with which to analyse reasoning.
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Sharing incomplete solutions
The published solutions to these tasks include a small 'slip-up'. Can your learners identify where something is not quite right and why?
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Appreciating different approaches
These tasks have been chosen because the published solutions reflect a number of different ways to approach the task.