Keywords: Starter | Arithmetic | Calculator | Estimating | Mixed | Place Value

• Tam, sussex pgce
• Tuesday, October 17, 2006
• "This one worked really well and got the pupils thinking! I made one change though, which was to change the number of days question to the days from 1500 AD because it was a bit too close to the number of seconds in a week, (700,000 and 600,000 respectively)"
• J Hitchcox, Sheldon
• Friday, September 25, 2009
• "I liked this activity as it made the students think.
  Interesting some of the answers. Some students have no real value of size. I did not read the January 1st one correctly. I missed the 1 at the end."
• Mr Keir, WHS
• Friday, September 30, 2011
• "Well done Yr 10 Set 3 at Welshpool High School 2011! Jolly Good Show ALL CORRECT!"

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