Sum of the Signs

A Maths Starter of The Day

= 36

= ?

= ?

= 33

= 26

= 28

= ?

= ?
 

Each traffic sign stands for a number. Some of the sums of rows or columns are shown. What numbers might the signs stand for?

[Teacher: Press the F11 key and hide the remaining toolbar to show the whole of this grid]

Starter of The Day Menu | Transum Software | Privacy Policy


Topics: Starter | Algebra | Logic | Problem Solving | Puzzles | Simultaneous Equations

  • Mr. H, Mary Hare School
  • Tuesday, March 11, 2008
  • "Chloe found a different solution."
  • The Best Maths Class Ever. 7cd/M2, King Alfred's College, Oxfordshire UK
  • Wednesday, March 11, 2009
  • "Jack, Georgina and Patrick found the solution very quickly. Olivia found out that the top column was the same as the right side column. Some of us found it hard (including sir!!)."
  • Year 9, Leicester
  • Wednesday, March 11, 2009
  • "Very hard and dodgy answers!
    Maybe a good starter for older classes."
  • Transum,
  • Saturday, January 16, 2010
  • "Thanks for the comments above. They refer to the randomly generated puzzle which you can see by pressing the button below. The puzzle you see the first time you visit this page should be reasonable for a 10 to 14 year old to solve and has a unique solution. Let us know how it works for your students."
  • Apex Year5/6, Apex Primary
  • Wednesday, March 10, 2010
  • "At Apex, our year5/6 class found is quite easy! but a good starter :)."

    •  

  • Selina, Stanwell Fields
  • Wednesday, March 09, 2011
  • "Easy for us 6 year 6."
  • Karris, Oxford University
  • Saturday, March 10, 2012
  • "Easy! The Class love it."
  • Mrs Webster, Brackenwood Junior School
  • Tuesday, April 30, 2013
  • "On the whole Y4 enjoyed this task but some children found it quite tricky."

How did you use this starter? Can you suggest how teachers could present or develop this resource? Do you have any comments? It is always useful to receive feedback and helps make this free resource even more useful for Maths teachers anywhere in the world.
Click here to enter your comments.

If you don't have the time to provide feedback we'd really appreciate it if you could give this page a score! We are constantly improving and adding to these starters so it would be really helpful to know which ones are most useful. Simply click on a button below:

Excellent, I would like to see more like this
Good, achieved the results I required
Satisfactory
Didn't really capture the interest of the students
Not for me! I wouldn't use this type of activity.

This starter has scored a mean of 3.5 out of 5 based on 108 votes.

Previous Day | This starter is for 11 March | Next Day


Transum Shop Visit the Transum Online Shop Transum Shop
Transum Shop

Answers
= 7   = 4
= 11   = 4