This activity is based on data in the book 'If the World Were a Village'. How will you represent your chosen data for maximum effect?
Can you decide whether these short statistical statements are always, sometimes or never true?
The computer has made a rectangle and will tell you the number of spots it uses in total. Can you find out where the rectangle is?
Charlie likes tablecloths that use as many colours as possible, but insists that his tablecloths have some symmetry. Can you work out how many colours he needs for different tablecloth designs?
This problem explores the biology behind Rudolph's glowing red nose, and introduces the real life phenomena of bacterial quorum sensing.
In this problem it is not the squares that jump, you do the jumping! The idea is to go round the track in as few jumps as possible.
After training hard, these two children have improved their results. Can you work out the length or height of their first jumps?
Alison, Bernard and Charlie have been exploring sequences of odd and even numbers, which raise some intriguing questions...
Can you place these quantities in order from smallest to largest?
This activity challenges you to decide on the 'best' number to use in each statement. You may need to do some estimating, some calculating and some research.
