Something in Common: Algebra

This sub-collection of resources from the ‘Something in Common’ collection contains three resources designed to bring a problem solving approach to the teaching of algebra in key stages three and four. Each problem comes with several different versions of a problem that have ‘something in common’. Having discovered the ‘something in common’ the challenge is to understand the underlying mathematics that gives these results.

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Train length

In this resource the time is given for a train to pass a signal. The time is also given for a train to completely pass through a tunnel. It is assumed that the train is travelling at constant speed. The task is to calculate the length of the train.

Solving the problem requires the use of the formula for...

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