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Calculator Resource Bank
Calculator pack one consists of 13 activities and investigations designed to explore a range of mathematical areas with the aid of a calculator. Activities include:
- Investigating remainders generated by calculations
- Calculating the values of two numbers given their product and sum
- Investigating magic squares
- Exploring calculator patterns
- Explaining why sums add up to cube numbers
- Calculating savings leading to large powers of two
- A variety of number puzzles
- The magic number 504
- Investigating cube and square numbers.
Calculator pack two consists of 15 activities and investigations designed to explore a range of mathematical areas with the aid of a calculator. Activities include:
- An investigation of what answers can be found when only a limited number of keys can be used
- Exploring a calculator progression given a specified key sequence
- Investigating the areas of rectangles
- Exploring Fibonacci numbers
- Working with palindromic numbers
- Creating sequences from a flow chart
- Investigating what numbers can be made by adding consecutive numbers
- Exploring the dimensions that produce an open box with the largest area
These resources were produced at the Resources for Learning Development Unit in Bristol by a collaborative group of teachers: Laurinda Brown, Dave Hewitt, Jo Waddingham and Pat Evans.
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