Maths Topics and Task Investigations

YEAR 5

TEXTILES

Haberdashers Problem
Reflections
Paving Views
Tangram Teasers
Pentominoes
Ice cream flavours

VICTORIANS

A dollar to spend

EXPLORERS AND ENCOUNTERS

Stacking problems
Martian Maths - Aztec number link
Garden beds
Plate triangles
Dice differences

BOUNDARIES

How many square
Painted Rods
Rectangle of squares
Dominoes
Farmyard
Make 4 Game

HAZARDS OF THE NATURAL ENVIRONMENT

Crazy animals
Highest number
First down the mountain
12 counters (develop to prob.)
Highest number
The Game Show

MOVEMENT FORCES

Time swing
Nim
Leading the blind
Staircase

YEAR 6

Food and Farming

Bob's lollies
Thirty one
Four arm shapes
Number tiles


ANCIENT EGYPT

Code breaker
Flags from a ship

BRIDGES

networks
Crossing the river
Back to Back building (symmetry)
Challenge (networks)

TUDORS AND STUARTS

Eight queens
Who owns the monkey ?
Hearts and loops





PEOPLE AND PLACES TO LIVE

Fraction magic square
Eric the Sheep
Where is the rectangle
The land of Et

LIFE IN BRITAIN SINCE THE 1930'S

Farmyard views ( space and shape )
L game
Knight swap
Equilateral Triangles
Sphinx ( angles)

YEAR 7

NATIVE AMERICANS

Take a chance
Win at the fair
cover up

ENERGY

Magic square
Doctor Dart
Painted cubes
square numbers



INDUSTRY

Police line up
Rice Rice Rice
Famous Mathematicians
Knight Protectors
Match Triangles

HEALTH AND HYGIENE

Planets (estimating)








MATERIALS CHANGING 2

Building Views
Race Track
McMahon's Triangles

MEDIEVAL REALMS

Human moves Monster
Magic cube
Number disc
Pick a Box
Photo angles

YEAR 8

RIVER STUDY

Crossing the desert
Chess Queens
Snail Trail

ROMANS

Mirror patterns
Pythagoras
Symmetric Tiles
64 =65
Wallpaper patterns
making triangles
cube nets
Tetrahedronnets

SOUND AND VISION

Latin Squares
Mirror patterns

FRANCE AND THE FRENCH REVOLUTION

Who lives where?
Knight protectors




MATERIALS CHANGING

Diamonds and Rectangles
Mc Mahon's Triangles 2
Protons - Anti -protons
Double staircase
Tower of Hanoi
4 cube House

MAKING OF THE U.K.

Sliding Tiles
Square numbers
Squound
Unseen triangles
Mushroom hunt