The benefits of doing weird maths
This is going to be a short post with some niche maths. Upon discovering that a good friend did the ACT exams instead of the GCSEs that I have done and taught I was immediately intrigued to see what the exam would look like. A bit of research led me to this document which is an absolute goldmine of maths. The questions above are two examples of questions from the ACT which you would just never see in the GCSE in england. They don’t require any new or radical Maths but are just phrased in such fun ways! I think giving students examples of what different Maths exams look like – Be that different exam boards or different continents exams – give students a chance to experience something weird that can set them up for the one inevitable weird question that might come up in their exams.
Doing maths makes you better at maths
I know that I am guilty of saying this in far too many of my classes but in general I really do believe that. In particular doing fun strange maths that gets you thinking and being playful with the maths you know will do wonders.
Here are a few more weird and fun versions of questions you might be used to seeing – Enjoy!
Post Credits
The attached document contains about 20 or so problems taken from the larger pdf linked above – Just a mix of some of the questions I particularly enjoyed.
Try them out! Let us know which ones you enjoyed here
Also the answers are found on the Resources page here
NJK
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