Key Stage 3: age 11-14

Links to the National Curriculum
Mathematics

• List all the outcomes for single events, and for two successive events in a systematic way.
• When dealing with a combination of two experiments, pupils identify all the outcomes, using diagrammatic, tabular or other forms of communication.

Duration
Two hours

Learning Objectives

Pupils will:

• select appropriate stategies to use for a numerical and algebraic problem.
• represent problems and solutions in algebraic form.
• list all outcomes for single events, and for two successive events, in a systematic way.

Resources required
Coloured cubes could help some pupils.

Learning activity
See the worksheet
The investigation involves finding combinations, organising and communicating results, identifying number patterns (triangular numbers), and generalising using words and formulae.