Mental Methods Starters:Abundant Buses: A game based around the concept of abundant numbers. Add Quickulations: Calculations appear on the screen every 10 seconds. This mental arithmetic starter provides pace to the start of the Maths lesson. Ancient Mysteries: Memorise fifteen numbers in a three by five grid. Countdown: How close can you get to the target by making a calculation out of the five numbers given? Division Quickulations: Random divisions calculations appear on screen every ten seconds. Eleventh of the Eleventh: Practise multiplying and dividing by eleven in your head. Family Buses: Fit families onto eleven seater buses without splitting up the families. Flabbergasted: If each number in a sequence must be a factor or multiple of the previous number what is the longest sequence that can be made from the given numbers? Four to Seven: Which of the numbers from 1 to 20 can you make with the digits 4, 5, 6 and 7? High Interest: Finding a good personal loan requires an ability to calculate percentage and this page provides some practice. Just In Time: Calculations appear on the screen every 10 seconds. Know Your Place: Without a calculator perform some calculations requiring a knowledge of place value. Mental Test 9: A traditional twenty question mental arithmetic test presented as a PowerPoint presentation. Missing digits: Find the digits missing from the calculations. Mult Sum Diff Div: For each pair of numbers multiply the sum by the difference then divide the answer by 5. Multiply Quickulations: Random multiplications appear on screen every ten seconds. Multiply, Add, Subtract and Divide: For each pair of numbers subtract the sum from the product then divide the result by 20 ... without a calculator. Outnumbered: Which group of four numbers, arranged in a square, has the largest total? Percent Table: Complete the table by calculating common percentages without using a calculator. Percentages Grid: Calculate the percentages without using a calculator. Quick: Develop a quick way of multiplying by 1001. Six Discrimination: An activity involving a calculator which is missing the six button. Can you evaluate the given expressions without using the six? Strange Tables: A challenge to learn an unfamiliar times table involving decimals. Subtract Quickulations: Calculations appear on the screen every 10 seconds. Table Legs: Learn an unusual times table from the strategic finger moving up and down the 'Table Leg'! Table Spiders: Multiply the number on the spider's back by the numbers next to its legs. Take Sides: Put up your right hand or left hand depending on the expressions that appears. Targets: Use the given numbers to get as close to the target as possible. Team Age: Work out who is in which team from the information given. Timed Tables: How fast can you answer 25 mixed times tables questions? Triples: Complete the calculations using only the given numbers. Triplets: Find as many sets of three of the available numbers as possible which add up to the given total. Tutu 5!: Which of the numbers from 1 to 20 can you make with the digits: 2, 3, 4 and 5?
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Notes:Though using pencil and paper are as useful as having up-to-date technology skills. There is no substitute for strategic mental methods for working out calculations and solving problems. The activities in this topic are designed to improve students' abilities to use their brains. Mental Methods Teacher Resources:Flash Tables: A never ending sequence of times tables questions to be projected on to a whiteboard or screen. Just In Time: Every 10 seconds a new calculation appears on the screen: A dynamic visual aid. Percentages: Practise calculating simple percentages in your head. Pesto: Students classify numbers randomly appearing on the screen by holding up cards Quickulations: Can you do the calculations before the answers appear? Mental Methods Activities:All The Nines: Use the digits 1 to 9 to make three 3 digit numbers which add up to 999 Broken Calculator (1 and 5): Use only the 1, 5 and 0 keys on a calculator to make given totals Chain Challenge: How fast can you perform all of the given operations without using a calculator? Digivide: Arrange the numbers from 1 to 6 in the spaces to make the calculation correct. Eleven In Your Head: Multiply numbers by eleven in your head. Estimation Golf: Play a round of golf using your estimation skills rather than golf clubs. Fast Factors: How quickly can you arrange the cards to match the times tables? Know Your Place: Without a calculator perform some calculations requiring a knowledge of place value. Make 1000: Use the numbers on the strange calculator to make a total of 1000 Masad: For each pair of numbers subtract the sum from the product then divide the result by 20 without a calculator. Mixpressions: Arrange the cards to create a valid mathematical statement. Quick: Can you multiply a number by 1001 in your head? This exercise provides practice in this and other similar challenges. Stamp Sticking: Drag stamps onto the envelopes to make the exact postage as shown at the top left of each envelope. Strategy Games: Strategy game that requires some mental arithmetic or some logic. TablesMaster: How fast can you answer times table questions? SearchThe activity you are looking for may have been classified in a different way from the way you were expecting. You can search the whole of Transum Maths by using the Google 'Custom Search' box below.
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