Plane Numbers

A Maths Starter of The Day

Arrange the yellow cards on the white rectangles so that the sum of the three numbers in the vertical line is equal to the sum of the four numbers in the horizontal line.

Click the "check" button when you think you have found a solution

 

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Keywords: Starter | Arithmetic | Number Patterns | Problem Solving

"Looks easy but proved quite tricky. Nice one!"

K Hudson, Drigg
Wednesday, January 31, 2007

 

"Hard to start, but then easy. We found 10 different solutions in 5 minutes."

Helen McKenna, Elgin
Wednesday, February 07, 2007

 

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Teacher, do your students have one to one access to computers?

Whether your students each have a TabletPC or share a desktop PC, this activity lends itself to eLearning (Engaged Learning).

Here's the URL which will take
them to a student version of this activity with more challenges:

 

www.transum.org/go/?to=plane