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Task Library

A school without tasks is like a school without books.
  • Students investigate books to explore literature and develop language concepts and skills in context.
  • Students investigate tasks to explore mathematics and develop mathematical concepts and skills in context.
  • Teachers select one book as a whole class literature adventure to challenge and extend students.
  • Teachers select one task as a whole class mathematical adventure to model working like a mathematician.
This page shows what a collection of all 241 tasks could look like.

Task 65, Shape Algebra  

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  • Maths With Attitude organises tasks into curriculum units across all content strands and all year levels 3 - 10.
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Task 1, Final Eight
Task 2, Cars in a Garage
Task 3, Doug's Tablecloth

Task 4, Window Frames
Task 5, Make A Snake
Task 6, Counter Escape

Task 7, Consecutive Sums
Task 8, Addition Totals
Task 9, Row Points

Task 10, Find My Pattern
Task 11, Lining Up
Task 12, Matching Cards

Task 13, The Frog Pond
Task 14, Heads & Legs
Task 15, Domino Trails

Task 16, Octaflex
Task 17, Truth Tiles 2
Task 18, Same or Different

Task 19, Cookie Count
Task 20, Pack The Box
Task 21, Tactical

Task 22, Time Together
Task 23, Two Colours Game
Task 24, Squares Around Squares

Task 25, In Between Time
Task 26, Travelling Australia
Task 27, Can Stack

Task 28, Plate Triangles
Task 29, The Farmer's Puzzles
Task 30, Truth Tiles 1

Task 31, Cube Nets
Task 32, Tetrahedron Nets
Task 33, Dominoes

Task 34, Dice Differences
Task 35, Crosses
Task 36, Making Triangles

Task 37, Fraction Magic Square
Task 38, The Mushroom Hunt
Task 39, Criss-Cross Numbers

Task 40, Diamonds & Rectangles
Task 41, Scale Drawing
Task 42, Triangles Around Triangles

Task 43, Number Tiles
Task 44, Latin Squares
Task 45, Eric The Sheep

Task 46, Duelling Dice
Task 47, Red & Black Card Game
Task 48, How Many Triangles

Task 49, Take A Chance
Task 50, Flight Departures
Task 51, Staircase

Task 52, Which Floor?
Task 53, Have A Hexagon
Task 54, Fay's Nines

Task 55, Fold Up Houses
Task 56, Challenge
Task 57, Two Squares

Task 58, See-Saw
Task 59, 13 Away
Task 60, Back To Back Building

Task 61, Double Staircase
Task 62, Four & Twenty Blackbirds
Task 63, Fried Rice

Task 64, Difference Between Two Squares
Task 65, Shape Algebra
Task 66, Pentominoes

Task 67, Making Solids
Task 68, Six Square Puzzle
Task 69, Tricubes

Task 70, Symmetric Shapes
Task 71, Algebra Through Geometry
Task 72, Farmyard

Task 73, In The Bag
Task 74, Button Sort
Task 75, What's It Worth?

Task 76, Tube Toss
Task 77, Tricube Constructions A
Task 78, Which View?

Task 79, Tangram Teasers
Task 80, A Dollar To Spend
Task 81, Pentagon Triangles

Task 82, Snail Trail
Task 83, Racetrack
Task 84, Rectangle Nightmare

Task 85, Time Swing
Task 86, Thirty-One
Task 87, First Down The Mountain

Task 88, Rice, Rice, Rice
Task 89, Doctor Dart
Task 90, Tricube Constructions B

Task 91, Pick A Box
Task 92, Magic Squares
Task 93, Leading The Blind

Task 94, Crossing The Desert
Task 95, Reflections
Task 96, Networks

Task 97, Pythagoras Rods
Task 98, Martian Maths
Task 99, How Many Things?

Task 100, Mirror Patterns 1
Task 101, Pyramid Puzzle
Task 102, Crazy Animals

Task 103, Four Cube Houses
Task 104, Building Views
Task 105, Soma Cube 1

Task 106, Crossing The River 2
Task 107, McMahon's Triangles 2
Task 108, How Many Squares?

Task 109, Number Game
Task 110, Who Lives Where?
Task 111, Square Numbers

Task 112, Coloured Squares
Task 113, Calendar
Task 114, Where Is The Rectangle?

Task 115, Dividing Shapes
Task 116, Who Owns The Monkey?
Task 117, 12 Counters

Task 118, Ice Cream Flavours
Task 119, Police Line Up
Task 120, Nim

Task 121, Farmyard Views
Task 122, Football Ladder
Task 123, Bob's Buttons

Task 124, Human Moves Monster
Task 125, Farmyard Race Day
Task 126, Planets

Task 127, Highest Number 1
Task 128, Highest Number 2
Task 129, Farmyard Friends

Task 130, Protons & Anti-Protons
Task 131, Walk The Plank
Task 132, Red To Blue

Task 133, Win At The Fair
Task 134, Eight Queens
Task 135, Famous Mathematicians

Task 136, Four Bead Mix
Task 137, Training For Maths
Task 138, Rectangle of Squares

Task 139, Squound
Task 140, Time For Tiling
Task 141, Flags From A Ship

Task 142, Tower of Hanoi
Task 143, Hearts & Loops
Task 144, Pascal's Triangle in Asia

Task 145, Land of ET
Task 146, Haberdasher's Problem
Task 147, Garden Beds

Task 148, McMahon's Triangles 1
Task 149, A Stacking Problem
Task 150, Chess Queens

Task 151, Knight Swap
Task 152, Painted Rods
Task 153, Knight Protectors

Task 154, 4 Arm Shapes
Task 155, 64 = 65
Task 156, Photo Angles

Task 157, Paving Views
Task 158, Brick Walls
Task 159, Mirror Patterns 2

Task 160, Painted Cubes
Task 161, Soma Cube 2
Task 162, Game Show

Task 163, Eureka
Task 164, Symmetric Tiles
Task 165, Change

Task 166, Sphinx
Task 167, Sliding Tiles
Task 168, Mirror Patterns 3

Task 169, Wallpaper Patterns
Task 170, Equilateral Triangles
Task 171, Number Discs

Task 172, Cover Up
Task 173, Crossing The River 1
Task 174, Magic Cube

Task 175, Pythagoras 1
Task 176, Steps
Task 177, Making Fractions 2

Task 178, Match Triangles
Task 179, Unseen Triangles
Task 180, Making Monuments

Task 181, Pointy Fences
Task 182, Jumping Kangaroos
Task 183, Pizza Toppings

Task 184, Reverse
Task 185, Coloured Cubes
Task 186, Tetrahedron Triangles

Task 187, Area Of A Triangle
Task 188, Arithmagons 1
Task 189, Pythagoras 2

Task 190, Magic Hexagon
Task 191, Choosing Beads
Task 192, Keith's Kubes

Task 193, Surface Area With Tricubes
Task 194, Arithmagons 2
Task 195, Stop At 4

Task 196, Cross & Square
Task 197, Chocolate Chip Cookies
Task 198, What's In The Bag?

Task 199, Making Fractions 3
Task 200, Greedy Pig
Task 201, Rectangle Fractions

Task 202, Rod Mats
Task 203, Make The Whole
Task 204, Decimals With A Tape

Task 205, Fraction Estimation

(formerly Peg & Tape Fractions)
Task 206, Intersections
Task 207, Triangle Perimeters

Task 208, Cube Numbers
Task 209, Pattern Cube
Task 210, Division Boxes

Task 211, Soft Drink Crates
Task 212, Monkeys & Bananas
Task 213, Chains

Task 214, Angle Estimation
Task 215, Take Away Tiles
Task 216, Square Pairs

Task 217, Kids On Grids
Task 218, Guessing Colours Game
Task 219, The Hole In The Triangle

Task 220, Smooth Edge Tiles
Task 221, Triangles & Colours
Task 222, Making Fractions 1

Task 223, Cat & Mouse
Task 224, Matching Faces
Task 225, Add The Pack

Task 226, Playing With Objects
Task 227, Volume Line Up
Task 228, Koala Karts

Task 229, Animal Farm
Task 230, Pack Up Your Bears
Task 231, Flowers In The Field

Task 232, Dice Footy
Task 233, Money, Money, Money
Task 234, Growing Tricubes

Task 235, Tables For 25
Task 236, Star Numbers
Task 237, Trisquares

Task 238, Growing Trisquares
Task 239, Money Charts
Task 240, Less Than Fractions

Task 241, Sicherman Dice
   

 

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