{"id":1061,"date":"2017-08-21T17:06:25","date_gmt":"2017-08-21T17:06:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kidlink.net\/?page_id=1061"},"modified":"2025-05-29T01:00:04","modified_gmt":"2025-05-29T01:00:04","slug":"whats-my-number","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.kidlink.net\/index.php\/project-center\/whats-my-number\/","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s My Number?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-46615\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kidlink.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/numbers-graphic.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"428\" height=\"264\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\"><strong>Objectives?<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\nGive your students the chance to develop numerical sense \u00a0and to appreciate mathematics from a multicultural perspective. Allows students to create a \u201cmath puzzle\u201d in which the reader needs to figure out which numbers to use based on clues given in statements or a riddle, and then answer to the math problem!<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #993300;\"><strong>Registration: Fall session: Sign Up Dates <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">TBD (Google Form link)<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #993300;\"><strong>Clues publication: \u00a0 <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">TBD<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #993300;\"><strong>End of the Project and Final Answers Posted: <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">TBD<\/span>\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><span lang=\"EN-GB\" xml:lang=\"EN-GB\">PHASE #1<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul type=\"disc\">\n<li><span lang=\"EN-GB\" xml:lang=\"EN-GB\">Teachers will introduce their groups\/schools or country<\/span><span lang=\"EN-GB\" xml:lang=\"EN-GB\"> to promote a better\u00a0 knowledge among the schools in a short paragraph emailed to the project leader. The project leader will add these intros to an <strong>Introductions Google Doc<\/strong> which all participants can read.<\/span><\/li>\n<li>All are invited to request to<strong> Join the FB group <\/strong>and Say Hello\u00a0 to other participants. Use it to know more about each other teachers as well as discuss and share ideas about the project.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>PHASE #2<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Each team makes a special riddle that describes their Mystery Number.<\/li>\n<li>Email your team riddle (and the ANSWER) to the project leader who will add it to the main <strong>Riddles Google Doc<\/strong> which all participants can read. There will be a <em>deadline<\/em> for all riddles to be sent in, then the project leader will post the Riddles Google Doc for the project to begin.<\/li>\n<li>Teams may send emails to each other when you think you have solved a riddle and teams will answer if you are correct or not correct.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #993300;\"><strong>About \u00a0the clues:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>No numbers.<\/strong> Use descriptions of the number to lead others to determine the number. There can be 5 Clue statements.<\/li>\n<li>The clue has to mention something that anyone can guess even if they live in another country.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #993300;\"><strong>Be sure to solve your own challenge before you send it in!<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>PHASE #3<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">At the end of the project, the Project Leader will post all of the answers to all of the riddles either on <strong>Kidlink.net<\/strong> or in an <strong>Answers Google Doc<\/strong>.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #993300;\">Example from Slovenia:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Take the number of black squares on chessboard,<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Add the n<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">umber of the letters in Arabic alphabet,<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Subtract the number of teet<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">h of a dog,<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Multiply by the number of the planets in our Solar System,<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Multiply by the total number of toes on bear.<\/span><\/li>\n<li>Answer ____________?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff; font-size: 24px;\">Be as clever as possible in your clues!!!<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Please Check the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kidlink.net\/index.php\/the-kidlink-project\/kidlink-netiquette\/\">Guidelines to participate.<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Original Project Coordinator: <em>Pia Avolio de Martino\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Objectives? Give your students the chance to develop numerical sense \u00a0and to appreciate mathematics from a multicultural perspective. 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