I’m a secondary school mathematics teacher and have been working from home for the last three weeks. During this time we are trying to keep our students active both physically and mentally and give them positive distractions at what is a challenging time for us all.
One of the ways I’ve done this (apart from setting amazing mathematics work, of course) is by creating some quizzes for the students, their families and our staff to have a go at. Some of the families have been using them as the basis of a family quiz night.
As an ‘extra’ for the Easter holidays I’ve created an ‘Initials and Letters Quiz’. I’m sure you’ve seen them before – clues like 7 D in a W, the answer being 7 Days in a Week. Some are as easy as that – some not so! Anyway there are 100 of them. I’m happy to send answers after Easter. There are no prizes – just the warm glow of getting those little grey cells exercised!
You can download the quiz here: Numbers and Initials Quiz
Have a great Easter everyone – stay home, protect the NHS and save lives and enjoy some quality time with loved ones that you’ll never get the chance to do so again!
* Wayne Chadburn is a member of the Liberal Democrats and Penistone Town Council
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Ask the Health Secretary “What sort of person survived cowpox?”
The answer is probably a young woman who knew very little about Einstein or Mozart.
When the United Kingdom, or South Korea, has available an effective vaccine against the coronavirus it will be desirable to sanitise the whole world. So who will do that? The WHO?
Music to our ears? Probably not Donald Trump. Maybe Bill and Melinda Gates?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_&_Melinda_Gates_Foundation
I do a weekly 5 round quiz as well as a mathematically themed puzzle sheet if you want other quizzes to beat any lockdown boredom. All of these are done for the staff and students (and their families) at the secondary school I teach at in central Sheffield. Download and have some quizzing fun. All biases and errors in questions are entirely my fault!!
https://mrchadburn.school.blog
Thanks, Wayne. I have shared the quiz with my extended family, so would welcome the solutions at some point!
Mary Reid:
Classic FM are playing Mozart’s fourth horn concerto without the words which were added by some later satirist. I’ve lost my horn! The case is there but the horn itself is missing. .. .. I’ll take up the tuba instead!
Thanks Will definitely have a go.
Richard Underhill I think it might have been Flanders and Swan?
1805 B o W ?
1805 B o T
1815 B o W
Yes … so sorry 1805 B of T
Wayne Chadburn 12th Apr ’20 – 9:35pm……Yes … so sorry 1805 B of T….
Wayne, thanks for the quiz..At least my query proves that you didn’t waste your time..
Keep safe..
You can download the answers in PDF form from here…
https://mrchadburn.school.blog/2020/04/06/numbers-and-initials-quiz/
Check out my blog ( https://mrchadburn.school.blog ) for other quizzes and mathematical puzzle sheets.
If you want to check your answers to this quiz, you can download the PDF document with them in from my education blog https://mrchadburn.school.blog/2020/04/06/numbers-and-initials-quiz/
Also on the blog are other quizzes and mathematically themed puzzles I’ve done for the staff, students and their families of the school I teach at.