Nurturing Students' Resourcefulness - Primary

This webinar is part of our Primary 'Developing mathematical mindsets' collection. There is accompanying guidance, which you might find helpful to read either before or after watching this webinar recording.

During this webinar we had a go at the following tasks: 
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How might you work out 14×12?

What other subtractions have the same value as 623-478?

If the '6' button on our calculator was broken, how might we calculate the following:

  A. 7.6 × 12

  B. 48 × 6

  C. 146 divided by 7

  D. 3.6 + 1.4

  E. 126 - 78

  F. product of 126 and 58

  G. difference between 76 and 263

  H. 32 + 16

  I. 65 + 56

  J. 62 × 16?

If our calculator was broken and we only had buttons 4, 5, -, ×, = and C, how could you make all the whole numbers from 1 to 20 inclusive?