Royal Institution Master Class 6th February 2010

From Teach

Contents 1 Format of Morning 2 Activities / Challenges 2.1 Guess how the paper was cut and folded 2.2 Pentominoes 2.3 Dingbats 2.4 Predictive Text puzzle 2.5 Durham Maths Mystery 2.6 Codebreakers 2.7 Christy's Shapes Puzzle 2.8 Mastermind 2.9 Squares on a Chessboard 2.10 Metric Clock 2.11 Balancing Scale 2.12 Sheep pen 2.13 Shrek murder 2.14 ABC + ACB letter sum 2.15 How many different nets of the cube? 2.16 Hexagon 2.17 Letter Sudoku 2.18 Dartboard 2.19 5x5 Grid 3 Action for next time (Monday 25th January)

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

Sheep pen

• Christy

Shrek murder

ABC + ACB letter sum

How many different nets of the cube?

Hexagon

• Sarah

Letter Sudoku

• Four-letter word
• How many solutions?

Dartboard

• Lowest score you cannot get with three darts.

5x5 Grid

• Fit in the numbers 1 to 25

Action for next time (Monday 25th January)

1. Gavin to decide which fillers.
2. How can it be presented to the kids?
3. Bring it in a form that it can be handed out to kids on the day.
4. Each activity to be ready, in a format to be presented to a child complete with instructions etc. Please bring this along to Monday’s session.
5. Estimate the time required for your activity and the points allocation. As a guide we agreed:
   • Green (<5min 50pts)
   • Amber (10min 100pts)
   • Red (20min 200pts)
6. Everyone to send a couple of good quiz questions to Sophie to compile a list
7. Sophie to send updated details of format/agenda for the day and prepare introductory slides for welcome.