To see all of the work I do for TES Maths, including Resource of the Week, Inspect the Spec, Maths Newsletters and Topic Collections, please visit the TES Maths Blog here Mean from a Table - This Harry Potter themed Maths Murder Mystery involves students having to presume the murderer is an average person. They need to caculate the averages of the guests to start narrowing down the murderer. It includes students needing to both calculate and estimate the mean from ungrouped and grouped tables. Sometimes, mental arithmetic can be challenging for young children. There's a number of different questions to cover and three-digit numbers confuse things. To help you out, we've created this fun Murder at the Movies Activity!

carrying out a sequence of calculations to a given number, including all four operations, fractions, percentages and squaring; As always, a big thank you must go to the Tes Maths community, which is entirely responsible for this creative collection of mathematical challenges and games. I look forward to seeing even more innovative ideas in the new academic year. Happy holidays to you all!Regional Inequalities - This Murder Mystery is set in a school and the students need to use their knowledge of regional inequality graphs to locate the murderer.

Revision- This Maths Murder Mystery involves students practising and applying their basic algebra, number and geometry skills. Data Handling Maths murder mysteries are a brilliant way to engage students within their learning as well as starting to explore both their reasoning and problem solving skills. Below are a few of the murder mysteries I have made and used with my students of varying abilities and ages. Number There are many benefits to doing maths puzzles, challenges and games, not least because many children find them enjoyable. As well as helping with test preparation, this type of activity can help children develop fluency and enthusiasm for maths as they see a context which doesn't always appear on worksheets.Revision- This Maths Murder Mystery involves students practising and applying their basic algebra, number and geometry skills. Algebra Just one of our Year 4 to Year 3 Maths worksheets in PDF format, this can help problem-solving skills among children. They must be able to multiply and divide by 10, 100 and 1000, and also work out proportions of numbers by fractions. Is this resource suitable for home-learning?

This mystery maths activity requires children to use a combination of their maths skill and intuition to help form sentences out of the words they uncover. By giving children a problem to solve, we're giving children a positive incentive that allows them to practice a certain skill, in this case, it's their knowledge of place value. When a number is multiplied by 10, the digits in the number move one place to the left. If a place is left empty, then a placeholder (zero) is used in the empty column.

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Pit pairs of students against each other to see who will be the first to complete a series of number puzzles, ideal for both KS3 and KS4 classes. Get pupils deciphering five clues to reveal a single culprit from 32 suspects in this murderous activity, which recaps knowledge of 2D shapes, angles and coordinates. Merge maths with a classic teatime game show to stimulate interesting discussions among your students using this interactive presentation, covering a number of key topics.