Ben, Jack and Emma passed counters to each other and ended with the same number of counters. How many did they start with?
In this game, children will use their addition and subtraction skills to keep track of the number of toys hidden inside a box when toys are added in or taken out.
This activity encourages students to consider the effect of vaccination on the spread of a disease.
This short activity encourages students to consider the risks associated with insecure data collection, including how identities can be reconstructed from partial data.
This short activity explores how $R_0$, the reproduction number, affects the spread of disease in an unvaccinated population.
Basic strategy games are particularly suitable as starting points for investigations. Players instinctively try to discover a winning strategy, and usually the best way to do this is to analyse the outcomes of series of 'moves'. With a little encouragement from the teacher, a mathematical investigation is born.
