Triple Totals

Use only these numbers:

30, 41, 60, 74, 93

Complete these calculations:

+ + = 164 TickCross

+ + = 153 TickCross

+ + = 131 TickCross

+ + = 241 TickCross

+ + = 194 TickCross

Numbers can be used more than once in each calculation.

Celebrating Faces

A Mathematics Lesson Starter Of The Day


Topics: Starter | Arithmetic | Mental Methods

  • Mrs Comhgego, St Patrick
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  • Great starter.
  • RN, Newcastle
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  • The activity is good, but some feedback as to which answers were wrong would be helpful.

    [Transum: Thanks for the suggestion. Ticks and crosses have now been added.]
  • Primary 7, Bargeddie Primary School
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  • Everyone in class enjoyed this starter, most of us rated it 5 out of 5 and several of us did manage to get it all right. It really got our brains working!
  • Mrs Wilkins, Macaulay Primary School Top 5
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  • I think it is great to get the students brains working before the lesson.
  • Emma, Cardiff
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  • Love how pupils can click board and check answers instantaneously without it jumping to new page.
  • Teacher,
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  • Display this on IWB. give children 5 - 10 minutes to work out.
    get children to show answers on IWB using the arrows on the actual starter. works great!
  • Pete Campion, Wellington
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  • Amazing Starter! Year 5A loved it!
  • Thomas Williams, The Meadows
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  • We enjoyed it but had to work together.
  • Xenia Goodwin,
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  • This starter was great!My class is a year 6 class,(more of a reception class)had lots of trouble doing this, but it really got their brains working.Spot on!
  • Billy, Sunderland
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  • Great app to use with lower abiity kids. Would be good to change the operation. Could develop a app similar to the maths puzzle in the I paper (Easy, Intermediate and Difficult).
  • Year 8 St Michael's,
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  • We loved this starter. The class did really well on this task. All pupils thought it was amazing.
  • Williamston Primary, Twitter
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  • Holbrook Primary School, Suffolk, Twitter
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  • Year 5 really enjoyed their morning maths starter this morning. They worked on their quick addition and problem solving skills. We use Transum's starter of the day frequently and check out what else Transum has to offer.

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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:

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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 game for more practice of this same skill.

Transum.org/go/?to=darts

Student Activity

 


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