Royal Institution Master Class 6th February 2010

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Revision as of 15:41, 20 January 2010

Contents

Format of Morning

  • Start at 10.00 in JG0001.
  • Icebreaker to allocate teams. (20 mins for intro, etc)
  • Then go to their break-out room, with box containing everything needed to do the 10 challenges.
  • But issue them with just their first five challenges.
  • 15-minute break
    • Us to mark their answers, and put results so far on a PowerPoint.
  • Quiz at end, with nominated representative from each team to do on a 'Weakest Link' basis. (Mini-whiteboards)
    • Jokers etc
  • Finish at 12.30
  • 80 minutes of challenges.
  • 40 minutes per session.

Activities / Challenges

  • Colour-code the tasks so that they or we can see which are the easier tasks.
  • Give them too much rather than too little.

Guess how the paper was cut and folded

  • Kinaesthetic and visual

Pentominoes

  • Lot to be cut out.
  • Christy has 30 sets

Dingbats

  • From Emma

Predictive Text puzzle

Durham Maths Mystery

  • Start with blank 3x3 grid.
  • Clues as to which numbers and where.

Codebreakers

Christy's Shapes Puzzle

  • Code

Mastermind

  • Dave
  • Guess the colours / digits

Squares on a Chessboard

Metric Clock

Balancing Scale

Fillers

Sheep pen

  • Christy

Shrek murder

ABC + ACB letter sum

Action for next time (Monday 25th January)

Personal tools
lessons in production
School-specific
Lessons by class
University Exercises