MCDONALDS RICH TASK

You might hear us talking about Rich Tasks in Maths.  These are open ended questions that there are often multiple answers to or multiple ways to solve it.  Last week we had a McDonalds inspired Rich Task.  Kate's Dad works there!

It was a huge hit with the kids!

  

  

RICH TASK - CODING

                  

On Friday, we completed a challenge.  It was a maze and we had to get the bee to the flowers on the maze.  The trouble was we had to watch out for the fly swat on the maze!

We had to make up a code to tell the bee which way to go.

RICH MATHS

Today we had a Maths Challenge involving LOLLIES!  No wonder we were all so good at it!

 

MATHS RICH TASKS

This is what we did for Friday's Rich Maths Challenge.

We are getting pretty good at working out what we need to know to be able to do to solve these challenges.  

We also know that quite often there is more than one way to solve a problem.

This is William's fabulous effort...

RICH TASKS MATHS - SNOWMAN CHALLENGE

Every Friday while some kids are doing their opt in Art and Science and Technology workshops. the rest of us take part in a Maths Challenge set by one of the teachers.  

The challenge on Friday was to draw a snowman using 15 circles.  Now that might sound easy but we had to work out all the things that we needed to know in order to be able to solve the problem.  

Here's what we came up with:

• know what a circle is
• know what a snowman looks like
• how to count to 15
• be able to count one to one 

We found out that it was a pretty tricky challenge.

A couple of kids got it straight away but the rest of us had multiple tries at getting it right.  

Some of us tried nearly a dozen times!  

Mrs Lunn was so proud of us because not one kid gave up.  We kept trying and trying until we got it!

Here are some of our finished snowmen.  You may notice that no two snowmen look alike. 

Mrs Lunn says that sometimes there is more than one answer to a question.  

Today we proved that! 😁