Welcome to Maths

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Welcome to Maths

• Your maths group is ___

Starter Activity Think of a mathematical word
beginning with the same letter as your first
name. Beware!!! If someone says your word before
it gets to you, you will need to think of another
one.
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Todays lesson

• Introductions and expectations

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Exercise books Folders
Name (write your name) Subject Maths ____
Mrs Muldowney
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What Mrs M expects from you...
6 B's ...... - To AVOID talking when
I'm talking. - To complete homework for the
correct day. - To ask if you are unsure of
anything. - To remain sitting in the seats you
are sat in today unless you are told
otherwise. ...it's your choice!!
NOW .... What do you expect from me?
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Lateral Thinking ....

1. Some months have 30 days, some months have 31.
   How many have 28 days?
2. If a doctor gives you 3 pills and tells you to
   take one pill every half an hour. How long before
   all the pills are taken?
3. Divide 30 by a half and add ten. What do you get?

All of them .. Every month has at least 28 days.
NOW FOR THE ANSWERS
One hour
70 30 ½ 60 10
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Lateral Thinking ....

• 4. A farmer had 17 sheep and all but 9 die. How
  many are left?
• 5. What do you put in a toaster

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Bread
NOW FOR THE ANSWERS
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Lateral Thinking ....

• 6. Do this as a group ...
• Out loud say silk five times
• Now spell silk
• Now answer the question What do cows drink?

Water
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Lateral Thinking ....

• 7. I have 2 coins which add up to 15p and one of
  the coins is NOT a 10p piece. What are the two
  coins?
• 8. If a red house is made of red bricks and a
  blue house is made of blue bricks what is a green
  house made of?
• 9. A plan crashes on the Canadian US border.
  Where would you bury the survivors?

10p and 5p only ONE of the coins is not 10p
NOW FOR THE ANSWERS
Glass
You dont bury survivors
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Lateral Thinking ....

• 10. Jonnies mother has 3 kids, one is named
  April, one is named May. What is the other named?
  
• 11. A cowboy rode into town on Friday, spent the
  night and left on Friday. How can this be?
• 12. A rooster laid an egg on the apex of a
  slanted barn roof. Which way would the egg roll
  left or right?

Jonnie
NOW FOR THE ANSWERS
His horse was called Friday
Roosters dont lay eggs
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Lateral Thinking ....

• 13. In a one storey house, the floor is blue,
  and the walls are white. What colour are the
  stairs?
• 14. If you take 2 apples from 3 apple, what do
  you have?
• 15. How many animals of each species did Moses
  take with him on the ark?

There are no stairs
2 apples.... You took them!
NOW FOR THE ANSWERS
0 ... it was Noah
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Lateral Thinking ....

• 16. Is it legal for a man in California to marry
  his widows sister?
• 17. An assistant in a butchers shop is 184 cm
  tall. What does he weigh?
• 18. If you only have one match and enter a cold
  dark room where there is an oil heater, an oil
  lamp and a candle ... Which would you light
  first?

No ... Hes dead
Meat
NOW FOR THE ANSWERS
The match
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