Broken Calculator (2,3)

Use the keys on this broken calculator to make the totals from one to ten. Five has already been done as an example.





1 =
2 =
3 =
4 =
5 =
6 =
7 =
8 =
9 =
10 =

Awesome!

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Try the pupil version of this activity at:

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A Mathematics Lesson Starter Of The Day

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Topics: Starter | Arithmetic

  • Carla Libanati, London
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  • This is an excellent way to make pupils think out of the box!
  • Mr. Poate, Whitecross
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  • Simple and easy, could do with more of a challenge. Top set year 9.
  • Mrs Lingham's Year 8's, Harpenden
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  • We enjoyed this starter but would like a plus sign please!!!!!
  • A Kirby, Solihull. UK
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  • This was really well recieved by my 16 year olds. They wrote all possible solutions down on paper and we incorporated BIDMAS. They were frustrated by the lack of a + sign but this made them think outside the box.
  • Transum,
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  • For many years I actually had a broken calculator just like this! It was an old cheap calculator that I'd pulled some buttons off. It made an excellent visual aid and stimulus for this activity. There are a number of different versions of the broken calculator activity on Transum that you can reach by clicking on the link lower down this page.
  • Mr Tilston, Twitter
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  • Karen Donnelly, Twitter
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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 related student activity.

Transum.org/go/?to=broken

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