Problem Solving Activities

  • Draw a square in your Maths 2 book.
  • Write down the things that a square needs to have (4 equal sides + more)
  • How do you know when something is a square?

How many squares can you find that have dots from this array as their corners?

  • There will be pieces of paper with these dots on them that you need to glue into your book and do your working in your book.
  • There needs to be 4 dots in each corner of the square.
  • You can reuse dots to find more squares.
  • Write the answer of how many squares you can see in your Maths 2 book.

Ice cream

  • Miss Parkes will run a workshop on Monday during maths time to show how to make a survey.
  • Create a survey about the classes favourite ice cream flavours. Your survey might look like the one in the picture.