SunSecond Holiday

A Maths Starter of The Day

"Did you enjoy your holiday?" asked Mrs Jones. "Yes", replied Mrs Brown,
"all 865,376 seconds of it."

A day trip to Blackpool Three days in London
A week in Pwllheli 10 days touring Scotland
Two weeks in Florida A month in Phuket

Which holiday do you think Mrs Brown enjoyed?

Mrs Brown

 

 

 

 

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Keywords: Starter | Arithmetic | Estimating | Time

  • Mr Gray, Bankhead Acad, Aberdeen
  • Tuesday, August 18, 2009
  • "Hmmm... I might avoid using this with my classes. It's a good excercise in estimating time and performing tricky calculations but how do you think the kids would react when I stand up and say "Phuket" in the middle of the classroom?"
  • Kathryn, Leah and Anna, Balallan School
  • Friday, August 27, 2010
  • "We did the starter and did some very complicated sums. Then in the end we guessed randomly...WE GOT IT RIGHT!! Even though there was only three off us."
  • Claire, Newcastle
  • Thursday, October 14, 2010
  • "87324 / 60 (to convert to minutes) = 1455.4
    1455.5 / 60 to convert to hours = 24.25
    24.25 / 24 to convert to days = 1."

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Answer

10 days touring Scotland

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