Activities

Task 4: Treat Bags

This task provides an opportunity for junior mathematicians to: calculate the total cost of different treat bags; examine and continue a pattern (made of chocolate bars); practice fraction of a quantity (pictorial – assorted chocolate) and practice x2 and x3 tables when designing gift boxes for chocolates.

Task 11: Carrot Muffins

This task provides an opportunity for junior mathematicians to engage in three different, yet related activities. The first is a cooking session and students will follow a recipe to make 24 carrot muffins. Then students will also be asked to work out different maths questions on the carrot muffin’s recipe and then find the answer in a word search, and finally to halve the ingredients in the carrot recipe (from one that makes 24 muffins to one that makes 12 muffins).

Task 13: SuperM’s Dice Task

This task provides an opportunity for junior mathematicians to engage in two different activities using dice. In the first activity students will engage in number work and number operations. In the second activity students will investigate the data when rolling the dice for 60 times. They will record data in a table (also using tally) and on a bar graph.

Task 18: Easter Party Planning

This task provides junior mathematicians with an opportunity to engage in the planning of an Easter party for their family and friends.
The students are asked to decide whether they should rather buy party supplies individually or by the box/packet. There are 10 children invited for the Easter themed party. Students are encouraged to provide an explanation for every decision they make and to act as responsible consumers.

Task 19: Figolli Decoration

This task provides young mathematicians with an opportunity to engage in an Easter-themed activity. Valerie and Danny, the two characters in the task, are doing 20 traditional figolli. They are decorating the figolli in different ways, but there is a pattern as to how each figolla is to be decorated. The main objective of the task is to be in a position to describe the decoration of each figolla.

Task 22: Equal, Greater or Less than

The task provides the opportunity to junior mathematicians to engage in two activities to reinforce use of mathematics symbols and mass (weight) facts . In the first activity the students use numbers and symbols to make six true number statements, each time using two numbers and a sign such as 2 kg = 2000 g. In the second activity the students engage in an equation balance (with numbers, then shapes).

Task 23: The Mystery Builder Task

This task provides the opportunity for young mathematicians to build a model out of recycled material. Each material or usage of particular equipment comes at a cost (the costs are listed on the sheet). The budget for the completion of the task is €1. The students are to write the project costings on a given sheet so that the budget is not exceeded.