Maths teachers - help please !?

[serenola]

Can anyone tell me what a zuggerat is please (this is how it sounds when my son says it anyway!) He's meant to work out what the trick to doing them is ..We can't google it as I'm not sure we're spelling it correctly ! Anyone who can either tell me how to spell it properly or explain it PLEASE help !!!

Does he mean Ziggurats? Stepped temples from Sumaria.

It's some kind of maths system which I have never heard of - I'll try googling ziggurats. Thanks for trying X

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ziggurat_algorithm

But it depends how old he as - I don't think they would be using this age 7

Thanks. He's in his first year at secondary. Oh dear - looks like I've got my work cut out if I'm going to keep up....