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 round I have designed a couple of mysteries aimed specifically at secondary students (download the mysteries here)
In the first mystery students have to use the 12 clues to determine which chocolatier 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.
Solutions are given at the end for each mystery. 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. I will get students to work in threes, each student will get four of the clues which they can not show their team mates, this way they have to communicate with one another in order to solve the problem. You could get them to present their work as a poster to give you some nice display work. Extensions are suggested within the resource.
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