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Using NRICH Solutions with Your Colleagues

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 solutions to the tasks below lend themselves to use during a staff meeting to facilitate conversations about assessment.  For more information about the ways in which you might do this, please see the article included in the feature.

Robot Monsters

Age 5 to 7
Challenge Level Yellow star

Use these head, body and leg pieces to make Robot Monsters which are different heights.

Heads and Feet

Age 5 to 7
Challenge Level Yellow starYellow star

On a farm there were some hens and sheep. Altogether there were 8 heads and 22 feet. How many hens were there?

Coded Hundred Square

Age 7 to 11
Challenge Level Yellow star

This 100 square jigsaw is written in code. It starts with 1 and ends with 100. Can you build it up?

Make 37

Age 7 to 11
Challenge Level Yellow starYellow star

Four bags contain a large number of 1s, 3s, 5s and 7s. Can you pick any ten numbers from the bags so that their total is 37?

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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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