Month: December 2017

What is the smallest number of Numicon shapes you need to cover the sleigh?

Which shapes are they? Which shape did you start with?

 

 

 

Find more ideas for this activity in the Santa’s Sleigh Challenge Booklet

Start with the blank sleigh and ask learners to use the Numicon shapes to cover it in any way they can.

How many different ways can you do it?

 

What if…………

You weren’t allowed to use the same shape more than once? How many ways can you do it? Is this more difficult? What are you thinking?

 

 

Print Santa’s sleighs and match the Numicon shapes so that you cover the sleigh.

How many shapes do you need?

 

Choose one of the presents and challenge children to use 2 shapes to cover the space on it.

Use Digit Dog as a starting point:

 

Digit Dog and Calculating Cat have found 2 shapes to fit on their present.

I wonder how many different ways they can do it?

How will they know if they have found all the ways?

What do you notice?

Explain your thinking.

 

What if…….…they used more than 2 shapes?  They tried one of the other presents?

 

 

 

 

 

Digit Dog and Calculating Cat are trying to find the Numicon shape that fits on their presents.

 

 

 

 

Present Challenge 1

Spread out one set of presents (download here) and one set of Numicon shapes.

Which shape fits each present?

Put the shapes in a feely bag, choose a present and feel in the bag to see if you can find the shape that fits.