Week 1

Hi Daniel

Challenge

Lets get started with a challenge: time yourself while you give the answers to these times table problems, they see if you can do them faster by Friday. A milkshake voucher for a faster time.

1. 7x8
2. 5x6
3. 3x11
4. 4x7
5. 9x3
6. 7x2
7. 8x7
8. 6x7
9. 5x4
10. 6x3

Puzzle

Angus collected some spiders and some ants in his garden.

Each spider had 8 legs and each ant had 6 legs. He collected 8 animals altogether and they had a total of 58 legs.

How many ants did Angus collect?

1. 2
2. 3
3. 5
4. 8

This is a really tricky puzzle, you will need to write some ideas down on paper. Choose the correct answer, provide a great explanation for why you chose it and get 3 milkshake vouchers.

Explore

Have a look at the WolframAlpha website http://www.wolframalpha.com/

What happens when you type your date of birth into it?

Have a look at this website, what do you think it could be used for?

What does it do?

Trick

Create a really tricky maths problem for Mum to work out.

Create a really tricky maths problem for Dad to work out.

Skills

Work through page 11 of the workbook with Mum. This is really tricky and interesting stuff, let's work through it together and earn a couple of milkshake vouchers.