Year 8 Exploring and noticing

  • Method in multiplying madness?
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    Method in Multiplying Madness?

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    7 to 14
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    Watch our videos of multiplication methods that you may not have met before. Can you make sense of them?

  • A green frog.
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    Frogs

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    11 to 14
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    How many moves does it take to swap over some red and blue frogs? Do you have a method?

  • Fence it
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    Fence It

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    11 to 14
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    If you have only 40 metres of fencing available, what is the maximum area of land you can fence off?

  • Isosceles Triangles
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    Isosceles Triangles

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    11 to 14
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    Draw some isosceles triangles with an area of $9cm^2$ and a vertex at (20,20). If all the vertices must have whole number coordinates, how many is it possible to draw?

  • Flippin' discs
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    Flippin' Discs

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    11 to 14
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    Discs are flipped in the air. You win if all the faces show the same colour. What is the probability of winning?

  • Interactive Spinners
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    Interactive Spinners

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    11 to 14
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    This interactivity invites you to make conjectures and explore probabilities of outcomes related to two independent events.

  • Crossed Ends
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    Crossed Ends

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    11 to 14
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    Crosses can be drawn on number grids of various sizes. What do you notice when you add opposite ends?

  • Two white rectangles on a wooden background, arranged like an equals sign.
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    Can They Be Equal?

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    11 to 14
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    Can you find rectangles where the value of the area is the same as the value of the perimeter?

  • Keep it simple
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    Keep It Simple

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    11 to 14
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    Can all unit fractions be written as the sum of two unit fractions?

  • How much can we spend?
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    How Much Can We Spend?

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    11 to 14
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    A country has decided to have just two different coins. Which totals can be made? Is there a largest total that cannot be made? How do you know?

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    How Would You Score It?

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    11 to 14
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    Invent a scoring system for a 'guess the weight' competition.

  • Your number was...
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    Your Number Was...

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    11 to 14
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    Think of a number and follow my instructions. Tell me your answer, and I'll tell you what you started with! Can you explain how I know?

  • What numbers can we make?
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    What Numbers Can We Make?

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    11 to 14
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    Imagine we have four bags containing a large number of 1s, 4s, 7s and 10s. What numbers can we make?

  • Olympic Records
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    Olympic Records

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    11 to 14
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    Can you deduce which Olympic athletics events are represented by the graphs?

  • Half a minute
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    Half a Minute

    Age
    11 to 14
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    Anna, Ben and Charlie have been estimating 30 seconds. Who is the best?

  • Forwards Add Backwards
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    Forwards Add Backwards

    Age
    11 to 14
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    What happens when you add a three digit number to its reverse?

  • Polygon Rings
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    Polygon Rings

    Age
    11 to 14
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    Join pentagons together edge to edge. Will they form a ring?

  • Number Families
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    Number Families

    Age
    11 to 14
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    How many different number families can you find?

  • Farey Sequences
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    Farey Sequences

    Age
    11 to 14
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    There are lots of ideas to explore in these sequences of ordered fractions.

  • Stars
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    Stars

    Age
    11 to 14
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    Can you work out what step size to take to ensure you visit all the dots on the circle?

  • Property chart
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    Property Chart

    Age
    11 to 14
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    A game in which players take it in turns to try to draw quadrilaterals (or triangles) with particular properties. Is it possible to fill the game grid?

  • Route to infinity
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    Route to Infinity

    Age
    11 to 14
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    Can you describe this route to infinity? Where will the arrows take you next?

  • Non-Transitive Dice
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    Non-Transitive Dice

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    11 to 14
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    Alison and Charlie are playing a game. Charlie wants to go first so Alison lets him. Was that such a good idea?

  • Fibonacci Surprises
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    Fibonacci Surprises

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    11 to 14
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    Play around with the Fibonacci sequence and discover some surprising results!

  • Unequal Averages
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    Unequal Averages

    Age
    11 to 14
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    Play around with sets of five numbers and see what you can discover about different types of average...

  • Charlie's delightful machine
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    Charlie's Delightful Machine

    Age
    11 to 16
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    Here is a machine with four coloured lights. Can you develop a strategy to work out the rules controlling each light?

  • Multiple Surprises
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    Multiple Surprises

    Age
    11 to 16
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    Sequences of multiples keep cropping up...

  • Robotic Rotations
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    Robotic Rotations

    Age
    11 to 16
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    How did the the rotation robot make these patterns?

  • Rhombus It
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    Rhombus It

    Age
    11 to 16
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    Players take it in turns to choose a dot on the grid. The winner is the first to have four dots that can be joined to form a rhombus.