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The Intensive Course Materials below have been used by the Croydon Teachers

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Giants Foot

    

This is the Giants foot.

Measure the length of the feet in your group.

Measure how tall you are.

Use this information to estimate a ratio of foot:height.

Use this ratio to calculate the height of the Giant.

Paper Clips

 

The office suppliers has just delivered 50 000 paper clips to the school.

Will the secretary be able to carry them all from the office to the stock cupboard in one journey.

 

 

Explain how you worked it out.

Calculator Survey

 

Try the following on several different calculators.

 

Calculator A

Calculator B

Calculator C

7 ¸ 3 x 3 =

  

 

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2 + 3 x 4 =

 

 

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 Do you get different answers on different calculators?

 Why do you think this happens?

 When else might a calculator give an incorrect answer?

Multiplication Chart

 Complete the multiplication Chart.

Time started: Time finished: Time taken:          mins

 

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
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How much quicker is this than the last time you tried it?

Painted Cube

 

You have a 3 x 3 x 3 cube made from wooden cubes.

 

 

 

 

 

It is painted on the outside.

 

Suddenly you drop the cube and it falls apart. How many little cubes are painted on:

        0 faces?

        1 face?

        2 faces?

        3 faces?

  How did you work it out?

Are there any cubes with more than 3 faces painted? Why?

What if you had a different sized cube to start with?

Or even a cuboid?