Four Factors

Think Afterthought

FIND FOUR DIFFERENT
SINGLE DIGIT NUMBERS
THAT MULTIPLY TOGETHER
TO GIVE 120.

IN HOW MANY DIFFERENT
WAYS CAN YOU ANSWER
THIS QUESTION?

A Mathematics Lesson Starter Of The Day


Topics: Starter | Factors | Mental Methods | Number

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  • Mr Magin, Stendal
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  • Year 7 class in Stendal, Germany, found 3 different ways.
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  • Excellent, I would like to see more like this.

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Laptops In Lessons

Teacher, do your students have access to computers?
Do they have iPads or Laptops in Lessons?

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

Laptops In Lessons

Here a concise URL for a version of this page without the comments.

Transum.org/go/?Start=October18

Here is the URL which will take them to a great online activity based on the same idea and allow them to earn virtual trophies for each set of three ways the find of making a target number.

Transum.org/go/?to=threeways

Student Activity

 


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