There are 64 NRICH Mathematical resources connected to Being collaborative, you may find related items under Developing positive attitudes.
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Match the cumulative frequency curves with their corresponding box plots.
Infographics are a powerful way of communicating statistical information. Can you come up with your own?
How can we make sense of national and global statistics involving very large numbers?
Use the information on these cards to draw the shape that is being described.
Play this game to learn about adding and subtracting positive and negative numbers
How could you arrange at least two dice in a stack so that the total of the visible spots is 18?
These Olympic quantities have been jumbled up! Can you put them back together again?
Generate three random numbers to determine the side lengths of a triangle. What triangles can you draw?
Charlie has made a Magic V. Can you use his example to make some more? And how about Magic Ls, Ns and Ws?
You'll need to work in a group on this problem. Use your sticky notes to show the answer to questions such as 'how many girls are there in your group?'.
Can you work out which processes are represented by the graphs?
Can you deduce which Olympic athletics events are represented by the graphs?
Engage in a little mathematical detective work to see if you can spot the fakes.
Move your counters through this snake of cards and see how far you can go. Are you surprised by where you end up?
A task which depends on members of the group noticing the needs of others and responding.
This task develops spatial reasoning skills. By framing and asking questions a member of the team has to find out what mathematical object they have chosen.
This task requires learners to explain and help others, asking and answering questions.
This task requires learners to explain and help others, asking and answering questions.
This task depends on groups working collaboratively, discussing and reasoning to agree a final product.
A task which depends on members of the group working collaboratively to reach a single goal.
Can you lay out the pictures of the drinks in the way described by the clue cards?
Invent a scoring system for a 'guess the weight' competition.
A task involving the equivalence between fractions, percentages and decimals which depends on members of the group noticing the needs of others and responding.
A task which depends on members of the group noticing the needs of others and responding.
A task which depends on members of the group noticing the needs of others and responding.
A task which depends on members of the group noticing the needs of others and responding.
Can you each work out what shape you have part of on your card? What will the rest of it look like?
I took the graph y=4x+7 and performed four transformations. Can you find the order in which I could have carried out the transformations?
Investigate what happens to the equation of different lines when you translate them. Try to predict what will happen. Explain your findings.
Investigate what happens to the equations of different lines when you reflect them in one of the axes. Try to predict what will happen. Explain your findings.
My measurements have got all jumbled up! Swap them around and see if you can find a combination where every measurement is valid.
Add or subtract the two numbers on the spinners and try to complete a row of three. Are there some numbers that are good to aim for?
In this game the winner is the first to complete a row of three. Are some squares easier to land on than others?
Collect as many diamonds as you can by drawing three straight lines.
A game in which players take it in turns to choose a number. Can you block your opponent?
Why not challenge a friend to play this transformation game?
A game in which players take it in turns to try to draw quadrilaterals (or triangles) with particular properties. Is it possible to fill the game grid?
A game in which players take it in turns to turn up two cards. If they can draw a triangle which satisfies both properties they win the pair of cards. And a few challenging questions to follow...
A game for 2 or more people, based on the traditional card game Rummy.
This practical problem challenges you to make quadrilaterals with a loop of string. You'll need some friends to help!
A game for two people, or play online. Given a target number, say 23, and a range of numbers to choose from, say 1-4, players take it in turns to add to the running total to hit their target.
There are lots of different methods to find out what the shapes are worth - how many can you find?
Play the divisibility game to create numbers in which the first two digits make a number divisible by 2, the first three digits make a number divisible by 3...
A task which depends on members of the group working collaboratively to reach a single goal.
A task which depends on members of the group working collaboratively to reach a single goal.
An algebra task which depends on members of the group noticing the needs of others and responding.
A task which depends on members of the group noticing the needs of others and responding.
Group work depends on effective team work. This article describes attributes of effective team work and links to "Team Building" problems that can be used to develop learners' team working skills.
Work in groups to try to create the best approximations to these physical quantities.