Photocopiable Investigations

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Welcome to hours of mathematical enjoyment!

(Ages 8-11): Populations (£1.90)

Investigate the populations of towns or countries and learn how to work out how many more people live in one town than another and how many times bigger one town is compared with another. Consolidates skills in reading, rounding, subtracting and dividing large numbers and choosing an appropriate scale for a bar chart.

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(Ages 10-13): Train Journey (£1.80)

Investigate how to use train timetables, calculate journey times, interpret maps, measure distances, use averages and work with scale.

Create an information booklet about a forthcoming train journey.

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(Ages 10-13): Election Results (£1.20)

Compare the results of a recent election with a previous one and present findings using a hand drawn pie chart. Covers the skills of expressing quantities as percentages and calculating pie chart angles as well as basic skills in interpreting tables.

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