Individual images of five symbols of Halloween each with a question to challenge your students on various topics!
Explore the Halloween celebrations with maths questions surrounding 5 symbols of the season.
Do you want a fun maths activity to challenge your students and get them thinking before you start teaching and get on the usual stuff?
Use these maths questions to do just that and take your maths lessons outside of the classroom.
5 HALLOWEEN MATHS QUESTIONS, EACH WITH AN IMAGE, WRITTEN QUESTION AND ANSWER!
Created for any exam board, testing maths involving various topics at the Key Stage 3 level.
Buy this activity pack now to show your students how maths can be applied to any situation!
WHAT IS INCLUDED?
5 questions each with an image, a description of the question and an answer available.
With questions asking you to…
Find the scale factor of vampire transformations
Find the mean average of ghost scares
Find the time spent by a witch on her broomstick
Find the area taken up in a graveyard
Simplify the algebra of a skeleton and zombie party
Each question image comes with a similar image that includes the question and the answer in red.
WHAT PREPARATION IS REQUIRED?
Show the question on the board at the front of the classroom, print the desired question or share over the school’s online system.
All questions and answers are provided as PNG image files in the same format.
HOW CAN THEY BE USED?
Once you have downloaded the activity set you can use it time and time again in varying scenarios such as…
Use as a starter to get your students focused and thinking
Group up students and have them discuss the best way to answer the question
Use as extra work for higher ability students
Use as a fun maths based quiz
Work as a team, mark each other’s work or challenge your students to compete in a quiz, there are endless possibilities for this set of questions. Explore Halloween and its traditions with maths!
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