Author: Jason
Sailing in the Number Island Seas
This week’s challenge is mainly to do with partitioning numbers. Learning our number bonds to 10 or 20 can be really useful in helping our mental arithmetic and in turn all of our arithmetic takes…
Free Online Maths Clubs over Easter
Maths Explorers are running free trial maths club sessions online over Easter. If you are interested, please let us know how you get on with supporting children with maths at home by completing this short…
Turning times tables inside out
Challenge On Boarding – Is it a factor? Divisibility Take a number, say 45. Just looking at it can get you some information about its factors. For example, it is an odd number, which just…
The X factors (and products)
This series of challenges are based on multiplication tables and mainly introduce the idea that you can create your own tables by choosing the factors and working out all the products. Challenge On Boarding –…
A Twenty-something Quadrant
Challenge On Boarding – Orientation of Lines The orientation of a line is the direction that the line goes in or could be considered as the angle that the line makes with the axes on…