What’s the Question?
Skills:Addition, subtraction, algebra
Resources: A variety of concrete resources to support addition and subtraction
Activity: Give pupils any number between one and ten, for example, 6. Explain that ’6’ is the answer but you do not know what the question is.
- Ask pupils what the question might have been if it was an addition question?
- What if it was a subtraction question?
- Give pupils the opportunity to come up with lots of different possibilities for what the question might have been using different operations.
Challenge Questions:
- Have you found all possibilities? How do you know?
- Can you find all possibilities if all the numbers used in the question were less than 20?
