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 solutions to the tasks below lend themselves to use during a staff meeting to facilitate conversations about assessment. For more information about the ways in which you might do this, please see the article included in the feature.
The solutions to the tasks below lend themselves to use during a staff meeting to facilitate conversations about assessment. For more information about the ways in which you might do this, please see the article included in the feature.
problem
Robot monsters
Age
5 to 7
Challenge level
Use these head, body and leg pieces to make Robot Monsters which are different heights.
problem
Heads and feet
Age
5 to 7
Challenge level
On a farm there were some hens and sheep. Altogether there were 8 heads and 22 feet. How many hens were there?
problem
Make 37
Age
5 to 11
Challenge level
Four bags contain a large number of 1s, 3s, 5s and 7s. Can you pick any ten numbers from the bags so that their total is 37?
problem
Coded hundred square
Age
7 to 11
Challenge level
This 100 square jigsaw is written in code. It starts with 1 and ends with 100. Can you build it up?