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Level 3 Problems

The problems have been grouped below by strand. Hover over each title to read the problem.

Choose a problem that involves your students in applying current learning.
Remember that the context of most problems can be adapted to suit your students and your current class inquiry.
Read more about using these problem solving activities.

Geometry

Grace's kitchen floor
The treasure map
Copycats

Measurement

Tim's trip
Adam's watch
A thousand seconds
Parking meters

Statistics

Dressing in the dark
Grabbing CDs
Coin shake up
Training

Number

Basketball caps
Pocket money
Legs in the barn
500 problem
At the movies
The Fathers Day card
My dogs
Calculator count to 1000
Super darts
Darts
Even more pizza
Gulls
The rock pool
Lollies, lollies, lollies
$3 and $5 stamps
Make 4.253
Invent a problem
Big magic squares
Decimal magic squares
Triangle sums

Algebra

Shaking hands
Toothpick squares
Race to 100
Take Two
The farmer's sheep I
Sara's table
Number plates
Multiples of a
Triangular numbers
 

Logic and Reasoning

Brian's pegboard I
No three in a line 

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