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Teaching for Mastery: Questions, tasks and activities to support assessment
Mastery Mastery with Greater Depth
Ali has made three sequences of shapes by sticking coloured squares together. Ali has made three sequences of shapes by sticking coloured squares together.
The sequence of red shapes starts The sequence of red shapes starts
and so on. and so on.
The sequence of blue shapes starts The sequence of blue shapes starts
and so on. and so on.
The sequence of green shapes starts The sequence of green shapes starts
and so on. and so on.
Ali says, ‘If I put a red and a blue shape together, they will make a shape that is the Ali says, ‘If I put two shapes of the same colour together, they make a shape that is
same as one of the green shapes.’ the same as one of the shapes in a different colour.’
Do you agree with Ali? Do you think that Ali’s claim is always, sometimes or never true?
Explain your reasoning. Explain your reasoning.
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