Homework Challenge A1

Improver your maths ability: Complete a 12 x 12 grid in under 3 minutes

A 12 x 12 gird is a maths grid. You can draw the grid or find a website and print them out online. You simply start off with 1x1 then you can go from there… Maybe 1x2 then 1x3. You stay in one row either vertical or horizontal, and go down or across crossing over the rest of the rows. After that you simply keep repeating the pattern. In the term 1 of 2013 before maths we had to complete a 12x12 grid in under 5 minutes and we had to keep on going and we get a tick by our name if we manage to beat our time or some days even finish before 5 minutes if you usually aren't able to do that. My best time at school was around 3.45m, my worst time was around 4.35m. Now this is one of our homework challenges. So, each night I practiced one or more grids. I knew that this was going to be one of the hardest challenges. I got down to 3.10m and I was not making any progress for a few weeks. I usually say the numbers, my mum suggested that me saying the numbers slowed me down. I tried without saying the numbers and I managed to get my best time yet and a completed homework challenge. My time was 2.57.03!

The note from mum :-)

The grid once finished

The watch we used to time the grid