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Assessing pupil progress (APP) and NRICH resources
In this article Jenny talks about Assessing Pupils' Progress and the use of NRICH problems.
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Money bags
5 to 11
Ram divided 15 pennies among four small bags. He could then pay any sum of money from 1p to 15p without opening any bag. How many pennies did Ram put in each bag?
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Digit addition
5 to 11
Try out this number trick. What happens with different starting numbers? What do you notice?
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What did Turing do for us?
Dr James Grime takes an Enigma machine in to schools. Here he describes how the code-breaking work of Turing and his contemporaries helped to win the war.
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The great tiling count
7 to 11
Compare the numbers of particular tiles in one or all of these
three designs, inspired by the floor tiles of a church in
Cambridge.
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Lawn border
5 to 11
If I use 12 green tiles to represent my lawn, how many different
ways could I arrange them? How many border tiles would I need each
time?
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Fair shares?
14 to 16
A mother wants to share some money by giving each child in turn a lump sum plus a fraction of the remainder. How can she do this to share the money out equally?
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Cuisenaire squares
7 to 11
These squares have been made from Cuisenaire rods. Can you describe the pattern? What would the next square look like?
