An Outdoor Activity

Collect as many of the following items as possible. Each item will be awarded a mark out of ten for it's quality or the ingenuity involved in finding it

	ITEM	SCORE
	A twig exactly 12 inches long
	Five pebbles, together weighing exactly a pound
	A pendulum which swings an exact second
	A natural spiral
	A perfectly symmetric leaf
	An item with rotational symmetry
	A perfect equilateral triangle, made from natural materials, laid out on the ground, each side at least 2m long
	Two congruent shapes
	Two similar shapes
	A green blade
	Find two trees exactly 5m apart
	Work out the direction of the sun from this place
	A natural fractal, length exactly twice the width
	Something never been seen before
	A Fibonacci number in nature
	Fir cone, 5cm long

Click on a link below for other parts of the Transum web site

Fun Maths Home        Transum Software        Maths Map        Go Maths

How did you use this resource? Can you suggest how teachers could present or develop these ideas?

"This is a fine activity for a hot sunny afternoon in a park with trees. Print out a one copy of the list above, one for each pair of children. If the children are quite young ensure that there is plenty of teacher supervision and clearly state the boundary of the game area beyond which they must not roam. Have a clear way to end the game either a time limit of a blast of a whistle that can be heard across the playing area.
At the end of the game each pair can be marked out of ten for each object they have found and how imaginative they have been."

Transum,
Thursday, May 08, 2008

 

Do you have any comments? It is always useful to receive feedback and helps make this free resource even more useful for Maths teachers anywhere in the world. Click here to enter your comments.

Maths Scavenger Hunt by Transum is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial-Share Alike 2.0 UK: England & Wales License. Permissions beyond the scope of this license may be available at "Contact Us".