Secondary activities

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Practice activities developed as part of the Secondary Numeracy Project. Each activity provides sufficient material for a group of students for around a week.

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Level Two
Number and Algebra
Secondary activities
This activity is for students to use when working independently of the teacher in class and as homework to practice number properties.
  • Solve addition and subtraction using mental strategies.
  • Explain how a mental strategy works using an example.
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Level Four
Number and Algebra
Secondary activities
These exercises and activities are for students to use independently of the teacher to practice number properties.

find a percentage of an amount

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Level Four
Number and Algebra
Secondary activities
These exercises and activities are for students to use independently of the teacher to practice number properties.

find a tenth of a whole number
find a fraction of a whole number

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Level Three
Level Four
Number and Algebra
Secondary activities
These exercises and activities are for students to use independently of the teacher to practice and develop their number properties. Some are suitable for homework, others require follow-up during teaching sessions
solve addition and subtraction problems with 4 digit numbers in a written algorithm
solve addition and subtraction problems involving decimals in a written algorithm
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Level Five
Statistics
Secondary activities
These exercises, activities and games are designed for students to use independently or in small groups to practise number properties. Some involve investigation (see copymaster of investigation write up) and may become longer and more involved tasks with subsequent recording/reporting. Typically an...
  • conduct experiments with equally likely results and others where the results are not equally likely
  • using tally charts and frequency tables to summarise the results of an experiment
  • recording the outcome of an experiment as a fraction
  • the difference between theoretical probabilities...
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Level Four
Statistics
Secondary activities
These exercises, activities and games are designed for students to use independently or in small groups to practise random number properties. Some involve investigation (see Related Resources) and may become longer and more involved tasks with subsequent recording/reporting. Typically an exercise is...
  • Explore random number tables.
  • Use a simple test for randomness.
  • Investigate sample sizes.
  • Generate randowm numbers.

 

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Level Three
Level Four
Level Five
Integrated
Secondary activities
In this activity students will explore activities relating to time.

finding time before and after a given time
writing times in different ways
working with 12 and 24 hour clocks
find fractions and decimals of an hour
solve problems involving time zones

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Level Five
Number and Algebra
Secondary activities
These exercises and activities are for students to use independently of the teacher to practice number properties.
  • Continue multiplicative sequences.
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Level Four
Number and Algebra
Secondary activities
These exercises and activities are for students to use independently of the teacher to develop and practice algebraic reasoning. They follow from teaching sessions that are described below. The initial teaching episode is an attached lesson, while other teaching sessions are outlined in the...

use symbolic notation to record simple word phrases
explain what symbol notation says should be done to the numbers
follow conventions for the use of brackets
interpret conventions for recording multiplications and divisions

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Level Four
Integrated
Secondary activities
These exercises, activities and games are designed for students to use independently or in small groups to practise number properties. Some involve investigation (see Related Resources) and may become longer and more involved with subsequent recording/reporting.
  • Draw 3D shapes on isometric paper.
  • Explore the relationship between edges, faces and vertices of relevant cube structures.
  • Explore the relationship between the dimensions of a cube and its volume.
  • Interpret drawings of 3D cubes.
  • Calculate volume of 3D cube structures.