Whole Numbers
This page presents resources to assist the teaching of maths topics involving whole numbers.

How Many Answers?
Filename: untitled7.RTF (23 Kb)
Date: 24-May-98
Submitted By: Stephen Swift, Newmarket SHS
Format: Rich Text Format
Description: How many answers?

Walking Through the Park
Filename: untitled5.RTF (20 Kb)
Date: 24-May-98
Submitted By: Stephen Swift, Newmarket SHS
Format: Rich Text Format
Description: What is the minimum time that should be allowed for a swimming carnival in a high school with 1200 students evenly spread through age groups from Under 13 to Open?

Crossing the Desert
Filename: untitled6.RTF (20 Kb)
Date: 24-May-98
Submitted By: Stephen Swift, Newmarket SHS
Format: Rich Text Format
Description: Crossing the Desert

Flash Cards - Instructions
Filename: jn_wn002.doc (201 Kb)
Date: 24-May-98
Submitted By: Rex Boggs
Format: MS Word Document
Description: A wonderful idea from an email or a posting a few years ago. Each card does a family of facts - eg 3 x 7, 7 x 3, 21/7 and 21/3. We send them home with students who have yet to master their tables.

The spreadsheet could be easily modified to do addition and subtraction.

Triangle Problem
Filename: jn_wn001.doc (15 Kb)
Date: 24-May-98
Submitted By: Ken Williams
Format: MS Word Document
Description: How many triangles with integral sides can be constructed so that the sum of the sides is 15? Answer is supplied by Dr. Math.

Nine Digits
Filename: untitled4.RTF (19 Kb)
Date: 24-May-98
Submitted By: Charles Lovitt, Curriculum Corporation
Format: Rich Text Format
Description: Two really neat activities with whole numbers.

Nine More Digits
Filename: untitled3.RTF (10 Kb)
Date: 24-May-98
Submitted By: Charles Lovitt, Curriculum Corporation
Format: Rich Text Format
Description: Here is a neat little series of problems, suitable as a whole class activity. Depending on the
depth to which you go, it is suitable for students from grade 3 to grade 12.

Tests of Divisibility
Filename: untitled2.RTF (27 Kb)
Date: 24-May-98
Submitted By: Rex Boggs
Format: Rich Text Format
Description: Divisibility tests for any number! How about that!

Sieve of Erastosthenes
Filename: untitled1.RTF (24 Kb)
Date: 24-May-98
Submitted By: Shirley A. Wilson
Format: Rich Text Format
Description: Sieve of Erastosthenes

A Googol and a Googoolplex
Filename: untitled0.RTF (24 Kb)
Date: 24-May-98
Submitted By: Irving Lubliner
Format: Rich Text Format
Description: The Googool and the Googoolplex

Digital Roots
Filename: Doc1.rtf (24 Kb)
Date: 24-May-98
Submitted By: Chris J. Delanoy
Format: Rich Text Format
Description: Here's a simple problem that's usually effective for ADVANCED elementary or preferably Junior
High. The reason I say this is that it will require a remote background in geography.