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Weights Nrich Wild Maths Activity for 5th/6th involving negative numbers

Weights Nrich Wild Maths Activity for 5th/6th involving negative numbers

Added: 25 Mar 2020 Contributor: PDST Resource type: Activity

This is a challenging open-ended activity where learners are tasked with exploring combinations of negative numbers in order to create different target totals

How it maps to the curriculum

5-6
Mathematics

Strand: Algebra

Suggestions for use: Explore combinations of different directed numbers to create a target total. The task can be closed to begin with, with a teacher-specified target number, moving to further open-ended tasks where pupils can explore pathways to creating their own combinations to produce a given target.

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