Christmas Bells

A Festive Maths Starter of The Day

Christmas Bells

The first bell rings every 6 minutes,

The second bell rings every 7 minutes,

The third bell rings every hour.

If all the bells ring together at noon, at what time will they next all ring together?

Christmas Lights

Here is a simulation of the ringing bells using seconds rather than minutes.

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Starter of The Day Transum Mathematics Topics


Topics: Starter | LCM | Number | Xmas

You can find many more ChristMaths activities at:

Transum.org/ChristMaths/

ChristMaths

  • Mr McLaughlin And Primary 5, St Bernadette's Primary School, Motherwell
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  • We managed to work it out. We really enjoyed the puzzle as it allowed us to work on our time skills and gave us good practise at using calculators.
  • Enid, Bendigo Violet Street Primary
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  • This was interesting but relatively simple to work out! A good challenge for those who like a puzzle.

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Laptops In Lessons

Teacher, do your students have access to computers such as tablets, iPads or Laptops?  This page was really designed for projection on a whiteboard but if you really want the students to have access to it here is a concise URL for a version of this page without the comments:

Transum.org/go/?Start=December20

However it would be better to assign one of the student interactive activities below.

Laptops In Lessons

Here is the URL which will take them to a related fun student activity.

Transum.org/go/?to=fizz

Student Activity

Here is the URL which will take them to a more traditional exercise on finding the lowest common multiple and highest common factor.

Transum.org/go/?to=hcf

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