Figure Me Out Poster

The scheduled Match Sticks Puzzles has been deferred to next week when we start a “Problem Solving Skills” programme.

Figure Me Out Poster

28/05/2020
For: Primary and junior secondary school children

As an introduction to the maths and arts activity, get children to think about the numbers in their lives. Where/when is it necessary to use numbers to describe yourself?

What you need:

  • Paper
  • Pencil
  • Colours

In these difficult times, you may not have all the material suggested. You may need to adapt these activities to suit your needs and materials available. Maybe your kids could think of ways of adapting and improvising. This is valuable skills development.

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Instructions

Children will create a poster that will have others solving equations to figure them out.

  1. Children should create their equations on a separate sheet of paper before they include them in the poster
  2. Include addition and subtraction equations
  3. Include multiplication and division equations
  4. Include fraction questions
  5. Secondary school children can use a combination of operations such as brackets, indices, roots, division, multiplication, addition and subtract. (BIRDMAS)

Some numbers to include:

  • Your age
  • Your shoe size
  • My house number
  • My birth year
  • My birth month
  • How many siblings you have
  • Number of pets in your house
  • Number of letters in your name
  • The number of sports games you have been to
  • How many instruments you own
  • How many counties you have visited
  • How many countries you have visited?
  • Your height
  • Your favourite number

Extensions

  1. Include a bar chart showing “what I spend my time on each day”
  2. This activity could be used as a cross-curricular activity if the questions are asked in another language such as Irish, French or German.