Completing the square

Thinking about information

The purpose of this task is to consider how information is used within a question and how it may effect the method required.

Once students have worked through the task above I would then give them the opportunity to build questions themselves. Turning the emphasis on the students will (hopefully) deepen the students understanding of how the information given in a question works together to provide a suitable method.

Shape

In the task below, students use a Cartesian grid to answer the task:

Can you find....

Functions

Iteration

Ratio

Bounds

Rounding

Decimal calculations

Indices

Sectors

Substitution

Angles in parallel lines

Quadratics - Fill in the gaps

Odd one out - fractions

Percentages

Vectors odd one out

Odd one out - powers

Solving equations

Surds

Linear functions meet area

Operations

Powers