Students drag numerals to create decimal numbers to create the largest and smallest decimal numbers, and closest decimal numbers to given whole numbers.
From diagrams of four original and enlarged drawings to be used for Christmas wrapping paper, students identify the scale factor used and find a missing length on either the enlarged picture or the original picture.
Different selections are made from a canteen menu that will cost a given amount. An extension activity is given that asks for all possible combinations to be found.
Students need to interpret data about travel time to school and common after-school activities and identify which statement is true from a list of given statements.
Students predict the outcome of throwing five dice and confirm their predictions by conducting an experiment and calculating probabilities. After discussing how to get better estimates, they pool their results with others to get a more accurate estimate of how good their predictions were.