SENIOR:
Games
Fifteen
 Place 16 cards face down in 4 rows of 4
 Player 1 turns over as many cards as needed to total 15
 If you go above 15 place cards face down again
 If you total 15 remove the cards and replace with cards from the deck and take another turn
(There must be 16 cards on the table all the time)
 Next player 2 goes
 The winner is the player with the most bundles of 15.
Strand:
Number
Strand unit:
Operations
Objective:
Solve problems involving …(operations)
Skill:
Applying & problem solving; Communicating & Expressing; Integrating & Connecting;
Reasoning; Implementing; Understanding & recalling
Fifteen
Joker 15
King 13
Queen 12
Jack 11
Number cards are worth their face value
Ace 1
SENIOR:
Open ended investigations
Poem
What mathematical problems can you create using this poem?
As I was going to St. Ives
I met a man with seven wives
Each wife had seven sacks
Each sack had seven sacks
Each cat had seven kittens
Kits, cats, sacks and wives,
How many were going to St. Ives?
Strand:
Strand unit:
Dependent on the problems posed
Objective:
Solve and complete practical tasks and problems involving ......
Skill:
Applying & problem solving; Communicating & Expressing; Integrating & Connecting;
Reasoning; Implementing; Understanding & recalling
SENIOR :
Practical Task
Newspaper fractions
Choose any page in a newspaper and, using fractions, estimate how
much space each article takes up.
How many different ways could you measure this? Select one method
and measure these articles.
How close were your estimations to the actual measurement?
How could you record these measurements?
Strand:
Strand unit:
Objective:
Skill:
Number, Measures
Fractions, Length, Area, Width
Solve and complete practical tasks and problems involving fractions
Estimate, compare, measure and record lengths of a wide variety of objects, using appropriate
metric units,
and selecting suitable instruments of measurement
Applying & problem solving; Communicating & Expressing; Integrating & Connecting;
Reasoning; Implementing; Understanding & recalling
SENIOR :
Projects
Comparing Newspapers
How much space is given to
 International news, Politics, Sport?
What fraction (or percentage) consists of photographs, advertisements?
Compare the balance of photographs of men and women.
Compare the style of writing
 What fraction of the sentences are long / short.
Do they give value for money? (how do you measure value? A survey of what people are looking for in a
newspaper might be needed.)
Strand:
Number / Measures
Strand unit:
Fractions / Length
Objective:
Solve and complete practical tasks involving fractions.
solve and complete practical tasks and problems involving the addition and subtraction of
units of length (m, cm)
Skill:
Applying & problem solving; Communicating & Expressing; Integrating & Connecting;
Reasoning; Implementing; Understanding & recalling
SENIOR:
Puzzles
Number Squares
Using each of the digits 1 to 9 only once, write one
digit in each of the 9 squares to make the
calculations correct.
Strand:
Number
Strand unit:
Objective:
Skill:
Operations
solve and complete practical tasks and problems involving (addition, subtraction, division)
multiplication of whole numbers
Applying & problem solving; Communicating & Expressing; Integrating & Connecting;
Reasoning; Implementing; Understanding & recalling
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Senior:
Mathematical Trails
Maths Walk
To begin, assign roles within your group to include:
a) Reader and Recorder
b) Time keeper
c) Manager
Then complete the maths trail provided.
Strand:
Strand unit:
Objective:
Skill:
Mathematical trails can be created to compliment any strand/strand unit and objective
Applying & problem solving; Communicating & Expressing; Integrating & Connecting;
Reasoning; Implementing; Understanding & recalling