Mad Maths: Book 1 - Ages 6-8

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activities for students aged 6 to 8 years.

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Written by Greg Mitchell. Illustrated by Terry Allen. © Ready-Ed Publications - 2001

Published by Ready-Ed Publications P.O. Box 276 Greenwood WA 6024 Email: info@readyed.com.au Website: www.readyed.com.au COPYRIGHT NOTICE Permission is granted for the purchaser to photocopy sufficient copies for noncommercial educational purposes. However this permission is not transferable and applies only to the purchasing individual or institution.

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Teachers` Notes Mad Maths 1 Background

Mad Maths is a problem solving based set of maths activities for primary students. The basic aim of the series is to cloak the cognitive processes involved in problem solving in an attractive, enjoyable exterior.

The activities are often fun ... mad even, but the basic underlying principles are sound.

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Ordering these activities according to difficulty is extremely hard to do because student readiness for problem solving relies greatly upon their previous experiences and how the material is presented in the classroom. Similarly, it is hard to classify these books according to year level. Basically, Book 1 is framed for junior primary, Book 2 for middle primary and Book 3 for upper primary. These levels are not prescriptive, thus materials should be selected to suit the student, group or class.

The aim of Mad Maths is to develop problem solving skills rather than other, more mechanical number skills.

Any aid which assists in getting the problem solved is to be encouraged as the process is much more worthwhile than the answer in this case.

Calculators, blocks, counters, squared paper, pieces of paper to draw on and indeed anything that helps the process of problem solving should be encouraged and made available.

To get the best out of Mad Maths

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Each Mad Maths page has three parts to it: 1. The P roblem Problem Read through the problem with the student, group or class you are using it with.

Whilst reading for meaning is a very important skill, major emphasis here is problem solving skills, not reading. So, ensure that all students understand and are fully aware of the problem presented.

Discuss the problem before progressing to the questions, perhaps developing your own questions before moving on.

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2. The Questions Ensure that all the students understand the question and its context before they tackle the answer. The benefits flow from the process not the answer. In fact many students will have difficulty in framing a form of attacking the problem. Discussing the questions helps overcome this.

Independence will develop with experience.

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3. Madness ... The Extension The final task adds a further fun dimension to those on the page. These activities may not be totally maths orientated but they lend an enjoyable end to a maths session.

The ‘Madness’ boxes are intended to be optional.

Assessment

In assessing these activities it is essential to consider more than just the answers.

“Did the student understand the problem?” is probably the most important question to be asked and evaluated. Questions about computational accuracy are of secondary importance ... but important nevertheless.

Do not forget to evaluate your own presentation of the material ... using materials such as this as ‘busy work’ may indeed cause more work than was intended.

The curriculum references and outcome statements on page 3 are linked to the document: “Mathematics - a curriculum profile for Australian schools”.

Published by Curriculum Corporation © (1994) 141 Rathdowne St. Carlton, Vic, 3053 Page 2

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Curriculum Strand: Sub-Strand: Learning Outcome

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4 5 Number: Count and Order - 2.11: Uses diagrams to solve problems related to basic operations.

6 Number: Count and Order - 2.11: Uses diagrams to solve problems related to basic operations.

7 Number: Applying Numbers - 2.14a: Uses diagrams and stories as visual and textual clues to problem solving. 8 Number: Number Patterns - 2.12: Recognises and describes patterns involving number combinations.

9 Space: 2.9: Distinguishes between circles, rectangles, triangles and squares.

10 Number: Applying Numbers - 2.14a: Uses pictures/diagrams to solve problems involving number operations. 11 Space: 2.10: Uses multiple copies of shapes to construct repetitive patterns.

12 Number: Applying Numbers - 2.14a: Uses counting strategies to solve story problems.

13 Space: 2.9: Recognises and uses shapes and patterns.

14 Space: 2.10: Identifies cubes as 3D objects with 6 faces.

15 Number: Mental Computation - 2.15: Reads, writes and counts with whole numbers.

16 Space: 2.8: Determines paths on informal maps and diagrams.

17 Number: Applying Numbers - 2.14b: Uses diagrams representing situations involving different priced objects.

18 Number: Applying Numbers - 2.14a: Solves number problems involving simple number combinations.

19 Measurement: Measuring - 2.19: Compares volumes of objects; uses uniform units of measure.

20 Measurement: Measuring - 2.19: Uses story and diagrams to determine relative areas of objects.

21 Number: Number Patterns - 2.12: Recognises and describes number patterns.

22 Number: Applying Numbers - 2.14a: Solves number problems involving simple number combinations.

23 Number: Count and Order - 2.11: Uses diagrams to solve symbolically expressed basic operations.

24 Chance and Data: Interpreting Data - 2.26: Interprets data from graphs using pictorial information.

25 Number: Applying Numbers - 2.14a: Recognises patterns using constant addition of whole numbers.

26 Number: Count and Order - 2.11: Solves number problems involving simple number combinations.

27 Number: Applying Numbers - 2.14a: Solves number problems using multiplication.

28 Number: Applying Numbers - 2.14a: Solves number problems using multiplication and division.

29 Number: Count and Order - 2.11: Reads and writes numbers in order; counts on and back from numbers.

30 Number: Mental Computation - 2.15: Works with multiplication to solve place value problems.

31 Measurement: Measuring - 2.19: Compares & orders things by length; uses uniform units to solve problems. 32 Measurement: Measuring - 2.19: Compares & orders things by length; uses uniform units to solve problems. 33 Number: Number Patterns - 2.12: Solves number problems involving basic operations.

34 Number: Count and Order - 2.11: Recognises face value of numbers; uses multiplication to solve number problems. 35 Measurement: Measuring - 2.19: Compares and orders objects by mass.

36 Number: Number Patterns - 2.12: Uses diagrams to represent situations involving comparison of numbers.

37 Measurement: Measuring - 2.19: Uses uniform units of measure to order and compare lengths.

38 Measurement: Time - 2.21: Uses uniform units of measure to order and compare time.

39 Measurement: Time - 2.21: Uses uniform units of measure to calculate time and volume.

40 Measurement: Time - 2.21: Uses uniform units of measure to order and compare mass.

41 Measurement: Time - 2.21: Uses a calendar as a unit of measure to order and compare time.

42 Number: Applying Numbers - 2.14b: Uses diagrams to compare groups and solve number problems involving money.

43 Measurement: Measuring - 2.19: Uses informal units of length to solve problems.

44 Number: Applying Numbers - 2.14a: Uses pictorial and verbal descriptions as clues in solving problems.

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Number: Number Patterns - 2.12: Recognises and utilises rules used to generate number sequences.

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The twenty children in Miss Mad’s room were having a dress up day. They came in all sorts of mad costumes. The best five costumes were:

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Ben who came dressed as a pig, Meg who came with a really sad face, Jim who sucked a dummy, Jan who shaved her head and wore funny glasses and Ted who came differently from everyone else. The only trouble was that they all thought that their costumes should be everyone’s normal school uniform!

Questions

1. Do you know who is who? Print the names under their pictures above.

Ša R ead yEdPubl i cat i ons 2. Who sucked dummy? _____________________

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6. How many boys are there in the picture? _______________ How many girls? _______________

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9. Ben had a hat on. _______________ 10. There are only five children in Miss Mad’s class. _______________

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What would you like to come to school dressed up as?

On the back draw you dressed up in the maddest costume you can think of.

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Bonzo Monster has lots of teddy bears (he has twice as many bears as he has teeth). He has big bears and small bears and he likes yellow bears and brown bears best of all.

One day he put out his bears in a pattern like this ...

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The only trouble was he couldn’t think what bear to put next.

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“These bears look like they are ready to start in a teddy bear race,� said Bonzo. “To start a teddy bear race you have to say ‘ready, teddy, go!’�

(Can you bear these weak jokes?)

Questions

1. If Bonzo has 15 teeth how many bears does he have? _______________

2. How many bears would you have if you were Bonzo? _______________

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5. How many bears are in the pattern so far? _______________

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Bozo Bear was the worst juggler ever!

He started off juggling six eggs but he broke three. He tried to juggle ten plates but he broke five of them. He was so bad at juggling he even went to sit down and missed the chair!

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4. Does Bozo have more buttons on his shirt or more dots on his pants?

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7. Bozo has more stars on his hat than stripes on both his arms. ___________ 8. I can juggle. _______________

Madness

Think of ten silly things that you could juggle.

Draw them on the back of this sheet.

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Gardener Grunge had a crazy sort of garden that grew all sorts of funny things. It grew pig plants, cat trees and all sorts of other strange things.

Gardener Grunge always had birds sitting on his hat, mainly because they could not land in the cat trees. Gardener Grunge’s favourite plants were the sad flowers.

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1. How many pig plants are there? _______________

3. How many cats are there in the cat trees? _______________

4. How many birds are there sitting on Gardener Grunge’s hat? _____________

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7. There are six buttons on Gardener Grunge’s shirt. _______________ 8. Gardener Grunge has one less pocket than buttons. _______________

Madness

What would you like to see growing on trees?

On the back of this sheet draw a mad tree with your favourite things growing on it.

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Al, the biggest of them, wanted to be in year six.

Smal, the smallest one, wanted to be in year two and Pal was in the class half way between the two of them. They wanted to be in the school football team too, but no one could find a pair of football boots to fit them or a football jumper that would suit them.

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Al, Pal and Smal came to school in their spacecraft.

So they went home.

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2. What year was Pal going to go into? ________________________________

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5. Why couldn’t anyone find a football jumper to fit them?__________________

7. I would have an alien in my class. _______________ 8. I am an alien._______________

Madness

Draw an alien in your school’s uniform, and in your favourite football club colours.

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Uncle Splodge has just learned to paint. He has painted three paintings called ‘Pig’, ‘Dog’, and ‘Tree’.

Uncle Splodge wants to hang his paintings on the wall in a straight line but he can’t figure out which order to put them in.

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“What is the best way to paint an elephant?� Uncle Splodge asked his art teacher. “With a brush, when it is standing still,� laughed his teacher.

Questions

1. How many different ways can you order Uncle Splodge’s pictures?

(Draw the answers here.)

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2. If Uncle Splodge hung the paintings in a triangle pattern, how many different ways could you hang them? (Draw the answers here.)

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3. If Uncle Splodge painted another painting called ‘Cat’ to add to the line, how many combinations would there be? _______________

Madness

Paint or draw a picture of Uncle Splodge.

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At the Mad Circus Len Lion gets his trained boy Sid to jump through two different sets of shapes on his way back to his cage. Sid says there are hundreds of different ways to get back to his cage, but Len Lion says that Sid is always ‘lion’ (lying) about things.

Questions

1. What are the four shapes that Len has for Sid to jump through?

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2. How many ways can Sid go back to his cage? (Draw them here.)

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If you were in the circus what would you like to be?

Draw you in a circus outfit on the back of this sheet.

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Pat said, “What time will it be if my pet tries to have a swim in the bath with me?�

No one knew.

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Pete, Pat and Pam all went to Ms Zoo’s pet shop and bought a pet each. There were only three pets - an elephant, a cat and a goldfish. Pat bought the biggest pet he could find. Pete bought something to swim in the bath with him. Pam liked what was left over so she took that.

“Time to get a new bath!�

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4. If Pam bought the elephant, what pet would Pat have to have?

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5. If the pets cost more the bigger they got, which would be the most expensive? ______________________________

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6. If the goldfish cost $3, how much would the cat cost if it was double that

7. What names would you call these pets? _____________________________ _______________________________________________________________

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If you could have any pet (no matter what) what would you choose?

Draw it on the back of this sheet.

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Chicken Cluck the tile layer has just got a job laying tiles.

Ducky Quack has a room that takes 16 tiles (eggsactly).

Chicken laid the tiles down in a pattern like this.

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Ducky Quack seems to think that there are lots of other ways the tiles can be laid but can’t seem to put her feather on it.

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Chicken can’t think of any new ways either but that is only to be expected.

“I’m a dumb cluck!� Chicken Cluck admits.

Your tile

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3. Cut out the tile at the side of this page (your tile) and use it to make as many different patterns as you can. Draw your patterns here.

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4. Does each pattern still use exactly 16 tiles? _______________

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Try to create a crazy shaped tile that will fit together with other tiles.

(Hint - start out with a square or rectangle.)

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Trying to figure out how many different outfits she can wear sets Carly’s head spinning. She likes this though because the rest of her spins when she goes dancing.

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Carly Bear loves going out to dance. She has three different sets of tops and skirts. One set is red, one set is blue and one set is green. Carly can mix up her sets to give herself even more outfits to choose from.

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Madness

How many times can you spin around in a minute, without falling over?

Get someone to time you. Then try jumping, hopping and skipping.

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The great bear magician Splasho has hidden his little boy Squark in one of his magic boxes.

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Splasho calls this game ‘Hide and Squeak’!

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Here are Splasho’s hints ...

“Squark is in the box that has not got a lid. It has a smile and a round nose.�

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“Hurry up,� says Splasho, “Or little Squark will end up a little square.�

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No one can ever figure out where Squark is.

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Madness

Try to create a crazy shaped tile that will fit together with other tiles.

(Hint - start out with a square or rectangle.)

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Cewbs are cute little outer space creatures that love to stay together and stick together.

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One day ten of them fell to earth. Nine of them found a nice pattern that kept them all touching, but one was left out and started crying big square tears. “I wish I’d landed on a piece of bread,� he sobbed. “Then at least I’d be a good square meal.�

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1. How many different patterns can you make so that all the Cewbs are

touching? You may need cubes to work this out. Draw your patterns here.

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3. What capital letter shapes could you make with Cewbs so that they’re always touching flat side to flat side? ________________________________

Madness

Make up some crazy square things .. like a square hamburger!

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Every two days Spal the Alien lands his rocket in Mad Maxine’s front yard so he can deliver her mail.

Maxine knows when Spal is about to land because black clouds suddenly appear in the sky.

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“Why do you use a rocket to deliver the mail?� Maxine asked Spal. “Because it keeps the dogs away,� Spal answered.

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2. What number in the street is Maxine’s house? _______________ 3. How many clouds are in the sky? _______________

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8. What is your address? ____________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________

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Draw the rocket you would like to deliver the mail in.

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To go for a hamburger, the Rotten family can travel four different ways.

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“I know what a crocodile would like in a hamburger,� said Daddy Rotten. “... ME!�

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The hamburger place they go to is called ‘Piggies’ because of what people like the Rottens turn into when they eat there.

After they buy their hamburgers the Rottens like to sit by the pool and watch the crocodiles play ‘Snap!’

Crocodile Creek

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3. What is the shortest trip? __________________________________________ 4.

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Madness

Make up a recipe or three for hamburgers for different animals or people ... like a Crocburger or a Rotten burger.

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Spud Monster felt hungry so he went to the monster lunch bar to buy some lunch. He had only 30 cents. He bought a rotten apple, which was his favourite food and one other thing. “What’s better than finding a worm in your lunch apple?� Spud asked the shopkeeper. “Finding half a worm ... yum, yum!�

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1. What did Spud buy for lunch? ______________________________________

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6. What three things together are worth 40 cents? ______________________ _______________________________________________________________

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Draw Spud’s lunch.

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Slug sells triple, double and single scoops.

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For some reason though, Slug only seems to sell one flavour in all his scoops.

I wonder why?

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1. What would be the most favoured flavour? ___________________________ Why? __________________________________________________________

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2. What are the possible double scoop combinations? (You can have the same flavour twice.)

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4. What is the total number of different types of ice-creams you can have?

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Think up some really good ice-cream flavours like steak and eggs ice-cream.

Draw up a flavour chart and price list.

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Fal’s container held 5 cups of gloop.

Wal’s container had twice as much as Fal’s but Al’s contained twice as much again as Wal’s.

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Al, Wal and Fal went to Smal the alien’s GLOOP SCOOP SHOP. Each took along their own container.

“What’s purple, has got sixteen legs, is hairy and dribbles?� Smal asked Wal. “I don’t know,� said Wal. “What has?� “I don’t know either,� said Smal. “But you just swallowed one in your gloop.�

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Make up your own recipe for alien gloop.

Make sure you use lots of crazy things.

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Crazy Joe made pizzas in four different sizes: small, medium, large and jumbo.

Joe likes making pictures on his pizzas. The jumbo pizzas always have a trunk make out of pastry.

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Joe cut his jumbo pizza into 12 pieces, he cut the large pizza into nine pieces, the medium into six and the small pizza into three.

The only trouble with the jumbo pizzas was that the elephants that bought them kept getting stuck in Joe’s doorway.

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Make up your own picture pizza. Draw it on the back of this sheet.

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Ms Fandango is a photographer.

She travels around to different schools to take school photographs.

Ms Fandango is very good at organising people in order so that they all can be seen in the photograph.

She organised Giggles’ class so that there were six people in the front row, five in the next row, four in the next and so on until Giggles was left, by himself in the back row.

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Giggles asked Msr Fandango.

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Madness

Draw a picture of your class just like a class photo.

Don’t forget to put in your teacher.

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So they all put their hands in the piranha pond and when Lucky pulled it out he had three red and five blue piranha fish hanging off it. When Jim pulled his hand out there were three green, two blue and three gold piranhas hanging on.

Jill had two blue, two green and six gold on her hand.

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Lucky Monster, Jim Monster and Jill Monster had a contest to see which one could get the most piranha fish to bite them.

“Let’s call this game ‘frozen food’,� said Jill. “Why?� asked Jim. “Because of the fish fingers,� laughed Jill.

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Madness

Think up five places to put a piranha fish.

(Anywhere there is water.)

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In Mad Max’s teeth tossing game Bill Bear had to throw a score of 9 to win a rock cake. He bought three throws for $1.

On the first try he scored eight and won a set of false teeth.

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On his second try he scored 9 and won a rock cake.

“It was lucky I won the false teeth first,� he said. “Because the rock cakes are made of real rocks!�

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Madness

Make up a scoreboard like Mad Max’s on paper.

Play the game with a counter. (Or with your false teeth!)

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Fred Silly Monster taught his dog Frido to catch fish. Frido learned very quickly. Fred made a graph of Frido’s catch. It looked like this.

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“He’s not so smart,� Fred would tell them. “He’s so silly that if you asked him what his name was, he couldn’t tell you.�

Questions

1. Why couldn’t Frido tell you his name? _______________

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Madness

Make a graph of the favourite things that your class likes to eat.

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Princess Stinky collects slugs, Prince Rotten collects snails. They decided to have a competition to see who could collect the most.

Stinky found five slugs a day for the first three days whilst Rotten could only find three snails each day.

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Princess Stinky says that when she’s caught 50 slugs she’s going to kiss Prince Rotten and turn him into a toad!

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“Then I’ll be just like you!�

Rotten pointed out.

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Have a snail and slug hunt and keep your scores.

(Don’t eat them!)

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Gordon Grump and Lisa Lollipop had a tomato and carrot growing competition.

Rabbits ate all of the carrots but left all of the tomatoes. The tomatoes grew well even though they were purple.

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Gordon got six plants to grow and Lisa got five plants to grow.

Gordon’s plants grew five tomatoes each whilst Lisa’s grew six on each plant.

“I’ve figured out how to catch the rabbits,� Lisa told Gordon. “All you have to do is stand still and make a noise like a carrot.�

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Madness

Think up ten fruits. Now think up three different colours for each different fruit.

What is the least number of colours you can use? What is the most?

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Brian Boots sells football boots to all sorts of football teams. Each of the teams had ten players but the Drongodogs bought their boots in sets of four, the Super Spiders bought boots in sets of eight, as did the Octopus Onions.

The Fighting Fireflies bought their boots in sixes whilst the Charging Chooks got theirs in twos and the Slammin’ Starfish bought theirs in fives.

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The Smashing Centipedes would have been Brian’s biggest customers but by the time they tied all of their shoes up the games were already over!

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5. If each boot cost $5, how much would it cost each player? _____________ _______________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________

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Make up team names for as many animal football teams as you can think of.

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Hairy Scary Monster has lots of little bugs that live in his hair. He loves them, he likes to think of himself as a zoo where bugs come to live.

Hairy’s favourite bugs are sillygrigglers - he likes to hear them buzz in his ear.

To him it sounds like music.

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Hairy shares around, he matchboxes sillygrigglers to Mary, his Uncle his sister Fred.

Hairy Scary Monster likes bugs so much that when he goes to a restaurant he asks the waiter, “Waiter, why isn’t there a fly in my soup?�

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6. What bugs can live in your hair? ____________________________________

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How many hairs do you have on your head? Try to find a way to figure this out.

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Billy laughed so much that he fell back onto Aggro Elephant’s very sharp tusks. He jumped forward 30 spaces and landed 5 spots ahead of Milly.

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Bad Billy stuck Mad Milly with a pin when she was standing on a number line. It hurt Milly so much that she jumped forward 22 squares and landed on number 94.

“If anyone sticks me with anything,� Aggro thought, “I’ll turn into a jumbo jet.�

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8. If each square was two metres across how far would Aggro have travelled? _______________

Madness

Find a flat space with plenty of room in front of you. Leave something to mark where you started and take a hundred large steps in a straight line.

That is about how long a 100 metre number line is!

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Harry Hundred is big.

He’s ten times bigger than Tilly Ten but Tilly is ten times bigger than Wally One.

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When they play video games Harry scores only in hundreds, Tilly scores only in tens and Wally scores only in ones. In their last game Harry scored three times, Tilly scored six times and Wally scored nine times. “It’s not fair,� complained Wally. “I score lots of times but it’s not worth anything.�

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Make up the name of a great, new computer game.

Draw what the screen would look like.

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Fred, Zed, Ted, Red and Ned measured their height by marking it on the wall.

They then play a guessing game like this:

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“The bear I’m thinking of has just grown taller than three of us but is not the tallest yet.�

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6. Are any of the bears taller than you? _________ Which ones?__________ _______________________________________________________________

7. What is your height? ______________________

Madness

Play the guessing game, but put your heights on the black board.

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Hairy’s head is 41 cm around.

Hairy’s hand is 10 cm across.

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Hairy’s belly is 50 cm around.

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Hairy’s leg is 45 cm long.

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Hairy’s foot is 15 cm long.

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Hairy Bear is a big bear - he is 75 cm long.

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5. Which is longer - Hairy’s leg or arm?_________________________________ 6.

7. How long would a pair of Hairy’s legs be? _______________

8. How tall are you? _______________ How much taller are you than Hairy?

(If you are taller, that is.) _______________

Madness

Measure yourself the same way as Hairy. See how you measure up.

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Marvin Monster made a mistake and accidentally ate the end off a piece of paper that had his new phone number written on it.

He wanted to ring up his mum to see if he could play in the haunted house after school.

He knows that the three numbers he swallowed were 4, 1 and 6 but he can’t remember which way they go.

He has only enough money for three phone calls.

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“I should have eaten my lunch box instead!� groaned Marvin, “but I ate that yesterday.�

2. Will Marvin have enough money? _______________

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5. What are the following phone numbers?

6. How much does a local phone call cost? _______________

7. How much does your phone number add up to?______________________ Is it the highest in your class? _______________

Madness

Make a list of famous people you would like to talk to on the telephone.

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Sydney and Cindy like to play cards. Their favourite game is ‘Thousand’. They take five cards from the deck.

Each card is marked with the numbers 1 to 9. Using only the three best cards out of the five they have they try to make the number closest to one thousand.

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“We first started playing this game as ‘Hundred’ but we got too smart for that,� Sydney explained. “Soon we are going to play ten thousand.�

In their first hand Sydney go cards which were 9, 3, 4, 8 and 1. Cindy’s five cards were 9, 0, 8, 9 and 4.

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Madness

Make a pack of cards and play the game.

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Angela Elephant was sitting on a see-saw when along flew a Major Mitchell cockatoo called Albert.

Albert landed on the other end of the see-saw.

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Angela hardly noticed anything - after all she weighed 1000 kg. But then along came a friend of Albert’s called Ted and landed on the same end as Albert.

Š ReadyEdPubl i cat i ons Questions •f orr evi ew pur posesonl y• “Yes,â€? agreed Ted, “I’d hate to think how big its eggs are.â€?

1. Who was sitting on the see-saw first? _______________________________

2. How much did Angela weigh? _______________

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Draw an elephant bird, its nest, what it eats and some of the things that you would like it to do - like sit on the power lines.

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“Urg burp splut glip,� said Gral which is alien for “I am as old as the total of the numbers of any one side of the triangle ... in light years.� She also said that her sister was one light year older than her and her brother was two years younger than her.

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“Aliens never grow very old,� Gral explained. “Their triangles just get bigger.�

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1. How old is Gral? _______________

2. What are the sums which add up to her age? ________________________

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Madness

What would you do if your best friend turned out to be an alien?

Write down what you would do together.

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Each day she gives the plant two drops of football boot fertiliser.

Š ReadyEdPubl i cat i ons f o rr ev i e wp ur p osesonl y• Each day • after that the plant would double in height.

On Monday the plant had grown 2 cm, on Tuesday 4 cm, on Wednesday 8 cm and by Thursday it had grown 16 cm.

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Madness

What type of plants would you like to grow in your backyard?

Draw a few.

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Smal got his moon hound Splat for his birthday in January.

Splat’s weight was 2 kg in January but by February Splat weighed 8 kg.

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Draw what you think a moon hound would look like and what it would eat.

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Make up a new Special Day, e.g. “Freddy Nerx Day� when everyone walks backwards!

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Maxine’s specials for this week include one bike with a motor, one bike with wings and one with a crazy frame.

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Draw a crazy bike with all sorts of things that you like to do on it.

You might like to have a pizza holder or anything you like on it!

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Sam C. Centipede likes to walk to school.

He counted that it took him 506 steps to walk from his house to Sally M. Millipede’s house. It took him another 43 steps to the shop, then another 61 steps to the school gate.

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Put in the steps in between each thing.

Try to make the amount of steps make sense.

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