Students create an arithmetic challenge for the year above, according to a provided lesson structure. These arithmetic challenges/lessons are then completed by the year above to see how well they work. This challenges students to explore arithmetic knowledge, play with unusual ideas, work together to design a lesson, and finally look at the result critically. The ultimate goal is not the creation of the lesson for the year above per se. Instead this creative process is a means to enable students to think about what makes a sum easy or difficult. This is particularly useful at the end of the year to focus on the transition to the year above. 

• Arithmetic - Can be focused on the area of maths as appropriate to teaching context (e.g. multiplication, division, big or negative numbers; percentages; decimals, etc.) 

This unit has a creativity and critical thinking focus:

• Explore and generate ideas for a maths lesson

• Play with unusual ideas and make connections between different levels of maths

• Find alternative perspectives and challenge assumptions about the easiness/difficulty of maths

Web and print

• Form on which the lesson gets filled in (e.g. in the format of World in Numbers)

• Evaluation form

Other Resources

• Pen and pencil

Opportunities to adapt, extend, and enrich

• Students could be asked to create lessons for the year below or an exchange can be set up whereby students in different years exchange lessons/challenges for each other

• Teachers could ask students to focus on a particular area of mathematics and use preliminary class discussions/presentation to review relevant subject content

English Version

• https://docs.google.com/document/d/1bfiIWDDsgrJwVpk1KpHMCqaXp207s_MpM_bdqYf-Qh4/edit?usp=sharing

Hindi Version

• https://docs.google.com/document/d/14zdyFRs0W_132J3D4P_0rGzXzPKC59gp2BCI9gQoBEs/edit?usp=sharing

Gujarati Version

• https://docs.google.com/document/d/1J8Y5_Tq47hgpbb4ZmNUdzsjezpV0hqIHpUUGy1tQg5w/edit?usp=sharing 

Kannada Version

• https://docs.google.com/document/d/1h5JMYLqHx2nQ1c3ZvZllNfNCQ9lVYot0tkTc97-ElQo/edit?usp=drive_link