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Baffling bars
A new chocolate bar is 20cm x 4cm x 2cm. The manufacturer thinks it will sell 525,000 bars a day. The companys trucks can carry only 30 cubic metres of bars each, how many trucks will be needed to distribute a days worth of bars?

Cunning Calcultor
Pupils will need a calculator for this.
Give pupils a 12 x 12 square grid and tell them to make a number crossword, working out the clues for each. example, '3 down,(24 x 3) -22'

Love Letter
Write a love poem to Barbie (For Boys)
Write a Love poem to Action Man (For Girls)
Write a love poem to Prince Charles (Everyone else)
Has to rhyme, must have 10 lines at least, each with over 5 words

Crackpot Crosses
Put a cross in every other square of a piece of graph paper to make a checkerboard pattern. Cut graph paper to fit time, 100 x 100 equals 20 minutes.
Evil extra is showing them, at the end, that with a ruler you can rule through them diagonally in long lines to complete the task in a few minutes... (Think about it)

Round and Round
Draw round a pound coin 3 times, tell the pupil to put as many smaller circles inside as possible without them touching
In one circle, 30 is good, 20 is normal, 10 is poor.

Cracked Circles
Pupils have to draw as many things as possible that are circular, and label them in the time given. Cannot link up more than two circles to make something else such as a bicycle, cannot draw more than one type of thing so can have football but not baseball as well

Silly Sellotape
Give 20 uses for sellotape that don't include sticking things (Floss, string, Picking up fluff, measuring air quality etc..)

Wicked Wire
Give 50 uses for a coathanger. You can break it into smaller pieces and bend it. One coathanger per idea. Draw each idea and number them..