Keywords: Starter | Arithmetic | Factors | Vocabulary

• Y11 A and B group, Rawthorpe High
• Friday, November 23, 2007
• "We found that it a valuable cross-curicular learning opportunity. We found properties, reflection and chocolates.
  
  Merry xmas, Love Mr Heeley and Miss Jenkinson and Mr Newton
  
  Ps sorry, I forgot Charlotte's experiment xx"
• Grade 9 Girls, SRS, Dubai
• Wednesday, December 05, 2007
• "We found substitute, proportion, triangular, expression, reciprocal and semicircle. Your starters are great!"
• 1D2 and Mrs Simpson, Torry Academy, Aberdeen
• Friday, December 07, 2007
• "1D2 found these words:
  QUADRATICS
  PROPERTIES
  PERCENTAGE
  DICTIONARY
  HORIZONTAL
  GLENBERVIE
  MULTIPLIED
  We also think it is impossible to make 23 as 23 is a prime number"
• 7 FP and Mrs Johnson, Stamord High School
• Friday, December 07, 2007
• "We got cylindrical,estimating, remainders, arithmetic, multiplying, mysterious, millimetre, reversable, explosions......
  ......and they are still searching."
• 2D1 and Mrs Simpson, Torry Academy, Aberdeen
• Friday, December 07, 2007
• "2D1 found these
  WHITEBOARD
  TRIANGULAR
  CORRECTION
  MANSEFIELD
  PENTAGONAL
  POWERLINES
  HYPOTENUSE
  KIRKPATRICK"

 

• Grade 9 Boys, SRS, Dubai
• Sunday, December 09, 2007
• "The boys class found understands, acceptable, restaurant, calculator, conversion, experiment and playgrounds."
• Liam Brady, Liz Halfpenny, Paige Wilkinson, Chelse, 8H from Harrytown, Stockport
• Monday, December 10, 2007
• "We found Reflection, Triangular, Perimeters, Trapeziums, Percentage and Number Line."
• Class 5 6 A, St Catherines
• Monday, December 10, 2007
• "It made maths fun and amusing!"
• 9B2, Harrytown High School Stockport
• Monday, December 10, 2007
• "Triangular, Number Line, Properties, Diagonally, Reflection, Times Table
  
  from Alice, Alex, Jade, Verity, Ruby, Danielle"
• 9Y2, Hadleigh High School
• Wednesday, December 12, 2007
• "9Y2 found coursework, calculator, complexion, addictions, curriculum, incredible, chimpanzee, JordanMoat, DanielHall "
• Ken Wcislo, Queen Anne High School , Dinfermline Fife
• Wednesday, December 12, 2007
• "2B1 found Kincardine, percentage,calculator, Stonehaven, Challengers, interseted, democratic,multiplied, excellence, perfection,memorandum,university, proprtion, directions, inventions
  Great fun was had by all"
• Christopher Vile, Clacton-on Sea
• Wednesday, January 23, 2008
• "Christopher is a veruca number"
• Mrs Humphreys' maths group, Nevill Road Junior School
• Thursday, December 04, 2008
• "We got
  
  detectives
  porcupines
  Netherlands
  Luxemburg
  Santa Claus
  dictionary
  Jesus Christ
  Christingle
  Nevill Road
  phone boxes"
• Rebecca Jarvis, Mr Cassidy's Year 9 Maths Class, Northoxfordshire Academy, Banbury
• Friday, December 05, 2008
• "I found SUCCESSFULL. And Mr. Cassidy found Juggernaut."
• Rebecca Jarvis, Mr Cassidy's Year 9 Maths Class, Northoxfordshire Academy, Banbury
• Friday, December 05, 2008
• "I also found TOOTHPASTE!"
• Year 7 Set 1 Maths, British School Muscat, Oman
• Sunday, December 07, 2008
• "We really enjoyed this starter! The words we found were:
  TRANSPARENT
  TRANSLUCENT
  PERCENTAGE
  INCREDIBLE
  MECHANICAL
  HEMISPHERE
  REFLECTION
  EXPERIMENT
  MADAGASCAR
  CALCULATOR
  PROPERTIES
  DUMBLEDORE
  HARRY POTTER
  LIM YONG SONG (THATS bRIAN!)"
• Miss Cutshall's 8C Class, The International School of Luxembourg
• Monday, December 08, 2008
• "Dear Mrs Humphreys' maths group, Nevill Road Junior School, We regret to inform you that you misspelled Luxembourg."
• 7S4, Kettlethorpe high school
• Monday, December 08, 2008
• "We got
  CHALLENGING
  TIMETABLES
  PROPERTIES
  CONTINUING
  ATTENDANCE
  ACTIVATING
  AMBULANCES
  ACCEPTABLE
  CALCULATOR"
• Mrs C Clark, 9ah/ma1, Mayfield School, Dagenham,Essex,
• Monday, December 08, 2008
• "We found delivering, vocabulary, production, calculator, patchworks, Woodbridge, arithmetic, terminator, curriculum, university, percentage,altogether, shut ya mouf,"
• Philip Nutt, Cheney School Oxford
• Monday, December 08, 2008
• "7b5 at Cheney, here in Oxford, got DICTIONARY, EXPRESSION, CALCULATOR, INCREDIBLE, CHOCOLATES, MULTIPLYING, APOCALYPSE, MANCUNIANS, THEATRICAL, PROFFESION, HYPNOTISING and, rather topically, DEPRESSION"
• Jordan Bristow, Mr Cassidy's Year 11 Maths Class, Banbury
• Wednesday, December 10, 2008
• "I found HEAVY METAL and Maxie realised that for 23 we could have AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAG!!!!
  Amy said we shouldn't be allowed to put in geographical places!"
• Kirsty Gull, Mr. Cassidy's Year 11 Maths Class, Banbury (again)
• Wednesday, December 10, 2008
• "I found fingernail"
• Mr G, I&S
• Tuesday, September 08, 2009
• "8DEF3 got the following words:
  COMMISSION
  ILLUSTRATE
  WOODCUTTER
  VOCABULARY."
• 8Y2 - With Miss Marsh, Bury Church Of England High School
• Thursday, December 03, 2009
• "We worked as a group and found
  DIFFERENCE
  ADJECTIVES
  CONTROLLERS
  ASSEMBLIES
  HORIZONTAL
  PERIMETERS."
• 8Y3, Darrick Wood Secondary School, Orpington
• Monday, December 07, 2009
• "We found:
  Percentage
  Perimeters
  celebrated
  vibrations
  calculator
  confidence
  multiplying
  university
  trampoline
  attendance."

 

• MIss Butler's Year 8 Class, Park Community School, Havant, Hants
• Tuesday, December 08, 2009
• "We enjoyed this.
  We found EASTENDERS, VALENTINES, HALLOWEENS, PERCENTAGE, TRIANGULAR, PERIMETERS, FOOTBALLER, NUMERATORS, CALCULATOR, FRIENDSHIPS, MULTIPLIED, ASSESSMENTS and EXPERIMENTS."
• Yr 7N5 Mrs Brown, Kennet School
• Tuesday, December 08, 2009
• "We came up with
  Turkey Meat
  Jingle Bells
  Big Rainbow."
• The National School, Nottingham, 9t3
• Tuesday, December 08, 2009
• "We found 24 and calculator, expressions, delivering, mathematic, pencil case, skateboard."
• P. Shouksmith, St. Andrew's School, Eastbourne
• Tuesday, December 08, 2009
• "We found the following words:
  Bookmarked
  Experiment
  Reflection
  Pentagonal
  Polyhedrons
  Trampoline."
• D. Hickman Casey, 8E
• Tuesday, December 08, 2009
• "We found the following:
  Calculater
  Bobbuilder
  Polyhedrons
  Conrollers
  Trampoline
  We are great fans of this fantastic website. We use it every math lesson. And we all love it so much!!!!!"
• Rhys , Daniel, Jordan ; Samantha, Grace Academy - Darlaston. Mr G's Yr10 Class
• Wednesday, December 09, 2009
• "Triangular; Expression; Thirty-three; Transparent;."
• Mr Hamshaw-Hart's 10set 3, Beverley Grammar School
• Wednesday, December 09, 2009
• "We found
  MULTIPLIED
  CENTIMETRES
  TREEBEARD'S
  TYPEWRITERS
  SCIENTIFIC
  RECTANGULAR
  TERMINATOR
  DOORFRAMES
  and my name HAMSHAW-HART."
• St.Mary's Primary P6, Lanark Scotland
• Wednesday, December 09, 2009
• "Hi, we are St.Mary's Primary school and our pri6 class got 106 words altogether and the people who got the most are Owen and Charlie with 32 words. Here are ten of them:
  1.nursemaid
  2.participle
  3.dedicating
  4.victualler
  5.boatswains
  6.attribute
  7.accomplice
  8.admittance
  9.boulevards and vocabulary which Owen thought of in the playground and here are some warm up words, dictionary, chocolates and woodpecker."
• King's College - Murcia, Year 8
• Thursday, December 10, 2009
• "We loved this starter. In fact, it was difficult to stop!
  difference
  headphones
  whiteboard
  multiplied
  evaluation
  Cinderella
  ambulances
  fairytale
  telephones
  calculator
  dictionary
  university
  Christopher."
• Nareen, Wareen
• Sunday, December 13, 2009
• "I think this is amazing and is perfect. I found.
  Whiteboard
  Searchlight
  Helicopter
  calculator
  Adjectives
  University."
• Mr Sim & Mr Morrison's 1b, Elgin Academy
• Tuesday, December 15, 2009
• "PERCENTAGE
  EASTENDERS
  NEIGHBOURS
  CALCULATOR
  PERCENTAGE
  PROPERTIES
  ARITHMETIC
  CONVERSION
  ROSS CUMMING (one of the class!)."
• St .James, Yr 8 Set 5
• Tuesday, September 28, 2010
• "Pencil case
  Monumental.
  Dictionary.
  Theatrical.
  Fosslized.
  Headphones.
  Light weight.
  Tchtyosaur
  Consider.:)
  these are the wordsthat we found."
• 9A3, The Vyne School
• Tuesday, December 07, 2010
• "Helicopter and dictionary."
• Margaret Bates, Wallasey School
• Tuesday, December 07, 2010
• "The activity was good fun and cooperation and competition took place. Quite compulsive!"
• Mr Smith, East Lanarkshire
• Tuesday, December 07, 2010
• "We Got Transum.org, Hellraiser, twenty four, The Big Man, Good Times, Choco Cake, duck sauce, Prince Will, Cheey Toe, Hello Dude, Year Three, Year Eight and many more."
• Dulwich College Beijing, Mr Martin
• Wednesday, December 08, 2010
• "This was definite 5 out of 5 great challenge lots of class merits earned!
  We found 10 words.
  How about ...... Aphrodite!
  5JM
  Dulwich college Beijing."
• 7B2, The Vyne School
• Wednesday, December 08, 2010
• "Dictionary
  Despicable
  Mathematic
  Multiplied."
• Mr Matthews, 7aMa1, Conisborough College, Catford, Lewisham
• Wednesday, December 08, 2010
• "10 correct answers from my clever top set:
  Reciprocal
  Calculator
  Multiplied
  Percentage
  Triangular
  Decreasing
  Increasing
  Expression
  Arithmetic
  Subtracting."
• 1LF, Speyside High School
• Thursday, December 09, 2010
• "We had fun, but first we had to remind ourselves what vowels and consonants are. We found all these words:
  RHINOCEROS
  PROTRACTORS
  DICLOFENAC (mum's migraine medicine!)
  CANIS RUFUS (the proper name for a wolf it seems)
  ANTISEPTIC
  HARRY POTTER
  RON WEASLEY
  SANTA CLAUS
  APPRENTICE
  DICTIONARY
  ASIA MCGILL (one of our class)
  MRS FARQUHAR (our assistant)."
• Miss Emerson, Great Yarmouth
• Thursday, December 09, 2010
• "Class 6E found:
  Headphones
  Pencilcase
  Calculator
  HelloKitty
  Timestable
  Rainforest
  Apostrophe
  Microphone
  Collection
  ...and are still going!"
• Mrs Shaw, 8L2
• Friday, July 08, 2011
• "8L2 We found
  Mathematic
  Amplifiers
  Polyhedrons
  University
  Specialist."
• 7S, Shrewsbury House School
• Tuesday, December 06, 2011
• "We found:
  Multiplied
  Musicality
  Palindrome
  Bookmarked
  South Acton
  Hammersmith
  Accountant
  Vocabulary
  Now we are going to try and find words that have a score of 24 and have more vowels than consonants."
• 5/6PR, Murwillumbah, Australia
• Thursday, December 08, 2011
• "We really enjoyed this activity. We had heaps of words equalling 24 then we did 32. Tomorrow's challenge will be to find words equalling 36 and 42."
• Mr Toby Cardew, Grade 1/2 Nichols Point Primary School
• Thursday, December 08, 2011
• "We have a few here;
  contribute
  dictionary
  expression
  MovieWorld
  sequencing
  vocabulary
  non-Fiction
  remainders
  wideSpread
  chaimpanzee
  calculator
  permission
  jellybeans
  watermelon
  rainforest
  impossible
  franchisee
  confidence
  experiment
  production
  continuing
  aggression
  altogether
  restaurant
  acceptable
  tablespoon
  arithmetic."
• 8A1, St Cecilia's RC High School
• Thursday, December 08, 2011
• "We found St Cecilia's, Santa Claus, Wonderlands, calculator, experiment, Jingle Bells, a Boxing Day, Isosceles and some names of some teachers and parents work too!"

 

• Mr Saye, Castle Rock High School
• Thursday, December 08, 2011
• "My year 7 group got the following words:
  Calculator
  reflection
  expression
  millilitre
  millimetre
  instruction
  objectives
  perfection
  impossible
  Bart Simpson works although we know it's two words!"
• Year 8 Set 2, Dylan Thomas Community School, Swansea
• Thursday, December 08, 2011
• "Brilliant. we came up with:
  brigadiers
  psychadelic
  analytical
  linguistic
  timetables
  stratified
  horizontal
  multiplied
  triangular
  Archimedes
  production
  bendegedig (Welsh for brilliant)
  Fforestfach (a place near Swansea)
  properties
  developing
  Mathemateg (Welsh for mathematics)
  privileges
  privileged
  curriculum
  difference
  multiplied
  calculating
  experiment."
• Josh,
• Thursday, December 08, 2011
• "Our homeschool got valentines, vegetables and halloweens:{only 3}."
• 7X2 - Miss Marsh's Group, Bury Church Of England High School
• Friday, December 09, 2011
• "We found:
  CATAPILLAR
  PROTECTION
  ALPHABETIC
  CALCULATOR
  PHOTOGRAPHS
  MULTIPLYING
  EVERYWHERE
  DEMOCRATIC
  SUBTRACTING
  IMPOSSIBLE
  NUMERATORS
  MASTERMINDS
  SEMICIRCLE
  DICTIONARY
  CONVERSION
  PERCENTAGE."

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