CHCEDS006 Support the development of numeracy skills
Element 3
Calculator Word Puzzle
Example The puzzle on the following pages is a fun way to use calculators in the classroom:
ACROSS
DOWN
1
A light worker
(4231 x 9)
1
Yucky muck
(0.32)
5
Santa sound
(2  5)
2
Give it the O.K.
(2768.9  20)
6
Dirty stuff
(45  1269)
3
Don’t stand around!
(2.37  1.47)
8
Not the stinging type
(9.5  4)
4
Exists
( 47.3  28.6 + 32.3)
9
Water tube
(12    )
6
Come in pairs
(10 609  5)
11
Some people open theirs too much
(1970   )
7
This word is slack
12
A fowl animal
( 210  165 + 359)
8
A shocking sound
(1.7  1.62)
13
One of these is always right
(11.62  2.25)
9
What a pig !
(8  113)
14
Not profitable
(92.1  37.03)
10
A bit fishy
(10 060  9 327)
19
Peas or the sea
(2782 + 61)
12
Set substance
Good to duck
15
Slippery stuff
(7.1 )
21
(1902  1093)
( 752 169 )
( 5329  4.18 )
23
Spots
( 97  5  11)
16
Cry, etc.
(35  23)
24
Don’t buy
(7103 + 829  197)
17
A manly title
25
Grain store
(0.5  1.43)
18
“Well?” - “Not exactly.”
(257  3)
26
Top person
(9634  4126)
20
Was it an adder ?
(6325 + 1607  2418)
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( 1296  2 )
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28
More of 12 across
(40 000  4661)
22
Ice house
(0.6903  0.6112)
23
Opposite to 17 down
(15  23)
24
Only one of these
(2470  1.5)
27
Therefore
(2.451 +1.63  3.581)
Adapted from: TAFE NSW Access & General Education Curriculum Centre, 2005, No Nonsense Numeracy, CD
ROM.
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