How Big is a Million?
This is a lovely Cbeebies adaption of 'How Big is a Million?' Pipkin the smallest penguin is always asking questions, but what he wants to know most of all is how big is a million? This story helps children understand the concept of big numbers and looks at place value.
The place value pack below is a great way to complement the video or get ideas for teaching place value.
The place value pack below is a great way to complement the video or get ideas for teaching place value.
| place-value-activity-pack.pdf |
Spaghetti and Meatballs for All.
Mr. and Mrs. Comfort are having a family reunion! Mr. Comfort starts cooking up his famous spaghetti and meatballs, while Mrs. Comfort carefully arranges eight tables and thirty-two chairs so that everyone will have a seat. The tables look lovely, the food is ready, and here come the guests--with their own seating plans!
Goodnight Gorilla - Addition
A lovely animation, the zoo keeper has his keys taken by the gorilla, as he goes around the zoo, saying goodnight to the animals, gorilla frees them to wander round with the unaware zoo keeper. As each animal joins you could ask how many there are in the line now? how many will there be next? Which animal is the biggest? Which is the smallest?
Resources:
Resources:
| grcsampleset.pdf |
| good_night_gorilla.pdf |
| goodnight_gorilla_teachers_notes_sandie_mourao.pdf |
| goodnightgorilla.ai.pdf |
Math Curse.
Did you ever wake up to one of those days where everything is a problem? You have 10 things to do, but only 30 minutes till the bus leaves. Is there enough time? You have 3 shirts and 2 pairs of pants -- can you make 1 good outfit? Don't worry -- it's just the Math Curse striking! A great little video that can be stopped at various points to solve the different problems.
Here are some resources to go with the story:
Here are some resources to go with the story:
| mathcurse.pdf |
| math_curse_review.pdf |
| math-curse_activities.pdf |
| math_curse_worksheet.pdf |
The King's Chessboard.
Have you ever paid the price for being a little too nice? "The King's Chessboard" was about a proud king in Deccan, India who paid the price for rewarding a wise man that didn't want to be rewarded. The King asked the wise man what would his reward be. The wise man said serving the King was his reward, but the King insisted on rewarding the servant. So, the wise man asked for one grain of rice. Then, each day for 64 days the wise man would recieve twice as much than the day before for each square on his chessboard. Things soon got out of hand because they were now giving the wise man tons of rice. Below are some very useful resources to go with the story.
| chessboard_challenge.pdf |
| kings_chessboard.pdf |
| exponents_and_algebra.docx |
| the_kings_rule.pdf |
