Around the year with Pip

Year 6 · Student investigation

How can a model reuse addition to reason about months?

Draw, point or explain aloud. A partner or adult may record your words.

Predict before seeing the answer

Starting at November, where will four monthly steps land? What happens if we add another 12?

Two comparisons

What did you change? What stayed the same? What did you notice?

Challenge your first explanation

Compare a 2-step trip with a 14-step trip. Same endpoint does not mean the same journey.

Make and explain

An annotated calendar path showing the sum, the wrap and what the diagram cannot tell us about a real LLM.

Limit the claim

This activity can show _ . It cannot tell us _ . A new case I would test is ____ .

Use fictional data. Download or print your work before leaving.