Resources tagged with: Being collaborative
There are 64 NRICH Mathematical resources connected to Being collaborative, you may find related items under Developing positive attitudes.
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Box Plot Match
Match the cumulative frequency curves with their corresponding box plots.
Perception Versus Reality
Infographics are a powerful way of communicating statistical information. Can you come up with your own?
Picturing the World
How can we make sense of national and global statistics involving very large numbers?
Shape Draw
Use the information on these cards to draw the shape that is being described.
Up, Down, Flying Around
Play this game to learn about adding and subtracting positive and negative numbers
Dice in a Corner
How could you arrange at least two dice in a stack so that the total of the visible spots is 18?
Olympic Measures
These Olympic quantities have been jumbled up! Can you put them back together again?
Constructing Triangles
Generate three random numbers to determine the side lengths of a triangle. What triangles can you draw?
Magic Letters
Charlie has made a Magic V. Can you use his example to make some more? And how about Magic Ls, Ns and Ws?
Sticky Data
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?'.
What's That Graph?
Can you work out which processes are represented by the graphs?
Olympic Records
Can you deduce which Olympic athletics events are represented by the graphs?
What Does Random Look Like?
Engage in a little mathematical detective work to see if you can spot the fakes.
Sociable Cards
Move your counters through this snake of cards and see how far you can go. Are you surprised by where you end up?
Quad Match
A task which depends on members of the group noticing the needs of others and responding.
What Shape?
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.
En-counters
This task requires learners to explain and help others, asking and answering questions.
Stick Images
This task requires learners to explain and help others, asking and answering questions.
Counters in the Middle
This task depends on groups working collaboratively, discussing and reasoning to agree a final product.
Arranging Cubes
A task which depends on members of the group working collaboratively to reach a single goal.
Thirsty?
Can you lay out the pictures of the drinks in the way described by the clue cards?
How Would You Score It?
Invent a scoring system for a 'guess the weight' competition.
Doughnut Percents
A task involving the equivalence between fractions, percentages and decimals which depends on members of the group noticing the needs of others and responding.
Fraction Match
A task which depends on members of the group noticing the needs of others and responding.
Number Match
A task which depends on members of the group noticing the needs of others and responding.
Making Rectangles
A task which depends on members of the group noticing the needs of others and responding.
Jig Shapes
Can you each work out what shape you have part of on your card? What will the rest of it look like?
Surprising Transformations
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?
Translating Lines
Investigate what happens to the equation of different lines when you translate them. Try to predict what will happen. Explain your findings.
Reflecting Lines
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.
All in a Jumble
My measurements have got all jumbled up! Swap them around and see if you can find a combination where every measurement is valid.
First Connect Three
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?
Connect Three
In this game the winner is the first to complete a row of three. Are some squares easier to land on than others?
Diamond Collector
Collect as many diamonds as you can by drawing three straight lines.
Factors and Multiples Game
A game in which players take it in turns to choose a number. Can you block your opponent?
Transformation Game
Why not challenge a friend to play this transformation game?
Property Chart
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?
Shapely Pairs
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...
Quadrilaterals Game
A game for 2 or more people, based on the traditional card game Rummy.
Stringy Quads
This practical problem challenges you to make quadrilaterals with a loop of string. You'll need some friends to help!
Got It
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.
What's it Worth?
There are lots of different methods to find out what the shapes are worth - how many can you find?
American Billions
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...
Arranging Squares
A task which depends on members of the group working collaboratively to reach a single goal.
Arranging Counters
A task which depends on members of the group working collaboratively to reach a single goal.
Simplifying Doughnut
An algebra task which depends on members of the group noticing the needs of others and responding.
Algebra Match
A task which depends on members of the group noticing the needs of others and responding.
Developing Good Team-working Skills
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.
Big and Small Numbers in Physics - Group Task
Work in groups to try to create the best approximations to these physical quantities.