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Using NRICH Solutions with Your Class

In our Celebrating Solutions Feature, we suggest that solutions published on the NRICH website can make a useful teaching resource in their own right.  You could use the published solutions with colleagues, in a staff meeting for example, or with your own children as part of a lesson.  

The tasks below, and in particular their published solutions, lend themselves to use in the classroom with children and we have gathered them into three groups:
  • Those that might help analyse reasoning
  • Those that include a 'slip-up' or incomplete solution
  • Those that will help your learners appreciate different approaches
For more information about using NRICH solutions, please see the article included in the feature.

Analysing Others' Reasoning

Age 5 to 11

These tasks have been deliberately designed to integrate learners' work, which makes them a great tool with which to analyse reasoning.

Sharing Incomplete Solutions

Age 5 to 11

The published solutions to these tasks include a small 'slip-up'. Can your learners identify where something is not quite right and why?

Appreciating Different Approaches

Age 5 to 11

These tasks have been chosen because the published solutions reflect a number of different ways to approach the task.

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The NRICH Project aims to enrich the mathematical experiences of all learners. To support this aim, members of the NRICH team work in a wide range of capacities, including providing professional development for teachers wishing to embed rich mathematical tasks into everyday classroom practice.

NRICH is part of the family of activities in the Millennium Mathematics Project.

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