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Developing Excellence in Problem Solving with Young Learners
Becoming confident and competent as a problem solver is a complex process that requires a range of skills and experience. In this article, Jennie suggests that we can support this process in three principal ways.
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Make Pairs
7 to 11
Put 10 counters in a row. Find a way to arrange the counters into
five pairs, evenly spaced in a row, in just 5 moves, using the
rules.
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Engaging Mathematics for All Learners
A project, funded by the QCA, in which NRICH collaborated with schools wishing to integrate NRICH tasks into their everyday classroom practice. The case studies of our work with the schools informed the QCA publication 'Mathematics for all learners'.
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More Total Totality
11 to 14
Is it possible to arrange the numbers 1-6 on the nodes of this diagram, so that all the sums between numbers on adjacent nodes are different?
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Favourite
Shape Draw
7 to 11
Use the information on these cards to draw the shape that is being described.
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TES podcast resources
Alison appeared on the second episode of the TES maths podcast. Here are some of the resources she shared.
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Build It Up More
7 to 11
This task follows on from Build it Up and takes the ideas into three dimensions!