Nepal earthquake Functional Maths
Submitted by Geraldine Cruse on 6 May 2015.
A topical and challenging series of differentiated questions for upper E3 to Level 2. Based on a news report about the May 2015 relief effort and a table of statistics about the world’s largest earthquakes.
Editor’s note
Gerry suggests you introduce the resource with discussion about the disaster and the releif effort and by playing a related video such as:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0L4mXdSxwtI
or
http://uk.reuters.com/search/video?blob=nepal
There is a particular focus on large numbers but questions cover many aspects of number, measures and data handling including
- Ordering dates
- Reading, writing and subtracting large numbers
- Mode and median
- Bar charts
- Currency exchange
- Rounding
Includes answer sheet and teaching notes.
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6 page PDF including answer sheet
Level
Maths
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