Tag Archives: resource

181. Website of the week 3

Happy New Year folks!

Once the fog of the festive season lifts, the creeping realisation that planning needs doing starts to dawn. To give you a helping hand, here is my website of the week:

LttMaths

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This website has lots of good ideas/pics/videos, a clear content index and links to other useful sites. Enjoy!

172. Chrismaths 6

On the sixth day of Christmas my true love sent to me … teeny tiny little boots!

Image credit: ebay.com.au

Of course, most geese don’t wear boots these days, but before mass transportation geese were walked to market in little boots or with tar applied to their feet.

Download the poster here: On the sixth day of Christmas

There is a rather splendid video from 31st Dec 1966 on the BBC archive about walking geese to market:  http://www.bbc.co.uk/archive/chronicle/8619.shtml

169. Chrismaths 4

On the fourth day of Christmas Maths Sandpit gave to me … another odd problem.

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Image credit: misskyliem.wordpress.com

Download the fourth poster here: On the fourth day of Christmas

Note: There is a minimum call solution (6) and a logical call solution (0 – birds can’t use phones)