Did you know that the embryos of the Great White Shark cannibalise each other in the womb because womb space is at a premium? Or that Black Swans are generally monogamous, but do have a 5% divorce rate? What about the fact that a lion spends about 20 hours a day snoozing?

The activities in this downloadable PDF resource provide a wilderness context for practising fundamental mathematics skills. Even your most reluctant student will be motivated and captivated by these real-life topics from the wild. And with all the answers provided, marking will be quick and easy.

Use the Instant Lessons to supplement your existing resources, to extend student capabilities, for revision purposes, or for class work when the regular teacher is absent.

Topics Include:

• Interpreting and drawing graphs
• Using and converting units
• Speed, time, distance and direction
• Percentage
• Proportion and rates
  
• Perimeter, area and volume
• Symmetry
• Calculating costs
• Identifying, interpreting and analysing data
• Probability and statistics