Last year we blogged about some of our favourite resources to use at Easter time (read the blog post here) a lot of these resources, and others on the web, are aimed at KS2 or lower ability KS3 students. So this time around I have designed three mysteries aimed specifically at secondary students, all can be downloaded for free on our resource site numberloving.co.uk.
In the first mystery students have to use the clues to determine which chocolate shop the Easter bunny should buy his Easter eggs from. They have to work systematically to find all the possible combinations of eggs, then calculate the price of each option.
In the second mystery students have to use coordinates, straight line graphs and number types to find the six eggs which have been hidden in the coordinate grid.
Finally in the last resource students have to work out whether Benny makes any profit from selling hot cross buns at a market.
These could be used with KS3 and KS4 students and could each span a whole lesson depending on how you get students to approach them. Instructions and ideas for support and extension are given within each resource, the solutions are also given at the end. If you like these resources you can download our mysteries bundle which contains ten different mysteries covering a variety of topic areas.
