Showing posts with label connected maths. Show all posts
Showing posts with label connected maths. Show all posts

Friday, 19 May 2017

Exploring the difference between averages

Two tasks designed to get pupils thinking about the different averages and how they are affected by new numbers added to a set. It preempts this lesson on which average you should use and why. Its also quite a nice bit of cross-curricular thinking.

Task 1 - Averages and probability (editable files here)



Task 2 - Match the averages to the description


Quick wins from Direct Instruction: Dimensions of Difficulty

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