Keywords: Starter | Arithmetic

• Transum,
• Wednesday, May 24, 2006
• "Repeatedly click the "clue" button until the problem is at a suitable level of difficulty for the class.
  
  Is the answer given the only possible answer?"
• J Dadd Y9, Ashford Christ Church
• Friday, July 13, 2007
• "No this is not the only way."
• Katie, Bradford
• Sunday, July 15, 2007
• "That is not the only way. I can think of 2 others. Try to figure them out if you can!"
• YR 8 George Abbot, SET 3
• Tuesday, July 01, 2008
• "We would recommend this as enjoyable starter. Thanks"
• Silver Birches, Lydd
• Thursday, July 10, 2008
• "We found four different ways...any more?"

 

• M Wood, Terang College
• Tuesday, July 15, 2008
• "Great activity, my students took on the challenge to find how many variations there are and have come up with 40! "
• Chris Smith, Bushenyi, Uganda
• Thursday, July 16, 2009
• "Fourteen 13 July 2009
  A good starter for the year two students at this Primary Teachers' College in Western Uganda. I selected the 10 weakest for this group, on basis of the mathematics marks (ignoring the methodology woffle) from their most recent college exams. We used the clues and I haven’t yet decided if there is a good strategy. I showed them how the grand total of the 14 numbers could be checked by adding first and last and so on. Class sizes are usually over 50 so identifying and helping the weakest, the strongest not to mention the ones in the middle, is a challenge.
  This afternoon I will use it at a local Primary School. I will put the numbers on corrugated card and make a back sheet on flip chart. They will enjoy moving them around."
• Helsby High School, 9y4
• Monday, October 12, 2009
• "There was more than one way to get the answer and it was challenging!"
• Frustrated Parent, Somewhere
• Monday, July 12, 2010
• "As a parent, can someone please explain how this is relevant in the "real world"? This needs only some basic skill to put vsrious numbers in a random order until you get the right answers. Seems very "unmeasureable" in terms of numeracy unless your planning on the students being able to randomise their own Lottery ticket selections..."
• 6F, Mt Warren Park Qld Australia
• Tuesday, July 13, 2010
• "We found 4 different ways !!!"
• Nicol, Josh, Waddy, Holmfirth
• Tuesday, July 13, 2010
• "We really like this activity and we found a several solutions and are now looking for more and we didn't use the clues :) xx."
• Caitlin, Y4 Banks Lane Junior
• Tuesday, July 13, 2010
• "The way I did it was I did 4+10=14
  3+8+9=20
  13+5+2+1=21
  12+11+14+7+6=50
  Also I know there was other ways to do it as well.
  It was a fun activity to! But was quite easy. ."
• Caitlin, Y4 Banks Lane Junior
• Tuesday, July 13, 2010
• "The way I did it was I did 4+10=14
  3+8+9=20
  13+5+2+1=21
  12+11+14+7+6=50
  Also I know there was other ways to do it as well.
  It was a fun activity to! But was quite easy. ."
• Mr Matthews' Year 8s, Canggu Community School
• Tuesday, August 31, 2010
• "We are so awesome, because we came up with 3 different answers. Annastassia, Karina and Nola (who never shows her workings) got a House Point - what!? We loved your starters and Mr Matthews loves bananas!"
• Molly, Southampton
• Saturday, July 09, 2011
• "I realy enjoyed doing this activity it realy got my brain going."
• Pupils, West Burton Primary School
• Wednesday, July 13, 2011
• "This was a confusing starter for Y4 but Y56 found it challenging! We got several different answers :)."
• STAGS Year 7 Set C, St. Albans
• Wednesday, July 13, 2011
• "Edita Juseviciute's solutions:
  6+8=14
  1+9+10=20
  2+3+5+11=21
  4+7+12+13+14=50
  Amber Williams' solutions:
  1+13=14
  5+6+9=20
  2+4+7+8=21
  3+10+11+12+14=50
  Nada Zarrouq & Imani-Nia Francis-Tsolakis' solutions:
  6+8=14
  3+7+10=20
  1+4+5+11=21
  2+9+12+13+14=50."
• Sam, Lacock School
• Friday, July 15, 2011
• "My solution is;
  9+5 = 14
  12+6+2=20
  13+3+4+1=21
  10+14+11+7+8=50."
• Reilly + Harvey, Lacock School
• Friday, July 15, 2011
• "We worked out;
  10+4 = 14
  8+7+5=20
  1+3+6+11=21
  9+12+13+2+14=50."
• Ella, Lacock
• Friday, July 15, 2011
• "I found that;
  1+13 = 14
  10+8+2 = 20
  This was different to harvey, Sam and Reilly. This was because they needed to use 1 and 13 in the other sums."

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