Jump to It!

A collection of seventy six mathematical activities and investigations aimed at students aged nine to fourteen.

Contents include: silly rulers, number patterns on calendars, the game of Nim, bus routes, frogs, finding how much paper and string is required to wrap some parcels, dissecting a square, surface area of cubes with holes in the faces, three in a line, palindromic numbers, addition tables, imperial lengths, counting the frequency of 9's in a grid, investigating remainders in divisions, intersections of lines, triangular and rectangular numbers, number chains, New York cops, think of a number problem, finding the number of handshakes for a group, magic squares, Tower of Hanoi, Braille patterns, Fibonacci numbers, growing squares, a practical activity making elliptical wheels, using paper planes to explore aerodynamics, finding the primes.

This collection of investigations was compiled by teachers on a course at the City of Manchester College during the autumn term 1982. This booklet was put together by Gillian Hatch at Manchester Polytechnic.