Ski Slope Learning

After reading Miss B's blog on ski slope learning (https://www.missbsresources.com/maths-resources) I decided to give it a go with a @MathsMastery problem I'd seen this week:

Ski slope learning is essentially a student friendly differentiation technique to enable all students to make progress (from the top to the bottom of the ski slope), taking whichever route they think is best for them.

Here are the different "runs" for this problem:

 

 





What is the Question?

I'm trying to foster problem solving early with my year 7 class... here's what we've been trying for decimals.

Inspired by the Rio Olympic 100m swimming finals, they had about 6 standard questions to give some scaffolding first, such as "how much faster did Pieter swim 100m that Simone?"

Then we moved on to the outstanding questions below (questions are normally split up into good, excellent, outstanding/mastery).