Pattern & Algebra
Years 5 & 6

Maths With Attitude is designed to help teachers of Years 3 - 10 create happy, healthy, cheerful, productive, inspiring classrooms in which their students learn to work like mathematicians. Each kit has collected a great deal of wisdom from trial teachers which is available through the Manual, Task Cameos and Maths300 lesson plans and software.

This Pattern & Algebra kit offers 7 weeks work in each of Years 5 & 6.

The tasks used are:
  • Arithmagons 1
  • A Stacking Problem
  • Can Stack
  • Garden Beds
  • How Many Triangles?
  • Jumping Kangaroos
  • Latin Squares
  • Mirror Patterns 2
  • Painted Cubes
  • Pizza Toppings
  • Plate Triangles
  • Pointy Fences
  • Shape Algebra
  • Smooth Edge Tiles
  • Snail Trail
  • The Mushroom Hunt
  • Thirty-one
  • Time For Tiling
  • Tower of Hanoi
  • Triangles & Colours

The Maths300 lessons used are:
  • Arithmagons
  • Back Tracking
  • Billiard Ball Bounces
  • Cracked Tiles
  • Game of 31
  • Garden Beds
  • Jumping Kangaroos
  • Painted Rods
  • Simple, Elegant, Elusive
  • Snail Trail
  • Staircases
  • Walking With Children

The lessons that include software are:
  • Billiard Ball Bounces
  • Cracked Tiles
  • Game of 31
  • Garden Beds
  • Simple, Elegant, Elusive

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