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Fluency Teaser

Thank you to everyone who had a go at our first fluency teaser. Lots of you came up with fantastic ways to give yourself a better chance of winning!

If you didn’t manage to have a go, follow the link below and enjoy!

https://nrich.maths.org/content/id/8016/Strike%20it%20Out%206589.png

Thank you to Katy in Year 5 for coming up with a strategy to better your chances of winning: leaving the bigger numbers to your opponent. Do you agree? Why not give it go!

Our second ‘Fluency Teaser’ is a wonderful activity called ‘Shape Times Shape’. See how good your working mathematically skills are by following the link and solving the problem.

Send any solutions to Mr Sallis.

Enjoy!

https://nrich.maths.org/content/id/6653/NRICH-poster_ShapeTimesShape.pdf

Click the link to take you to the problem!

This week we got a range of solutions from across key stage 2.

Thank you Alice in year 3 for this solution.
And Natalie in Year 4 for this.
And some particularly good reasoning by Adam R in Year 5.