Maths Challenge!
Mrs Speed from Maths has set challenges for all the year groups, have a look below and have a go!
Ages 5 – 7
Andrew decorated 20 biscuits to take to a party.
He lined them up and put icing on every second biscuit.
Then he put a cherry on every third biscuit.
Then he put a chocolate button on every fourth biscuit.
So there was nothing on the first biscuit.
How many other biscuits had no decoration? Did any biscuits get all three decorations?
Ages 7 – 11
“Can you make square numbers by adding two prime numbers together?”
Ages 11 – 14
1 kilobyte is actually not 1000 bytes, it is 210 bytes.
1 megabyte is 210 kilobytes.
How many bytes are there in 1 megabyte?
Ages 14 – 16
Take a look at the system of equations below:
ab=1
bc=2
cd=3
de=4
ea=6
Can you find a set of values {a, b, c, d, e} that satisfy the system?
Can you find more than one?
Ages 16 – 18
Find the range of values of x for which
x√+1x√<4,where x√ is the positive root.
Looking for some more maths challenges?
Try visiting https://nrich.maths.org/covid19 – this site was created by Cambridge University with activities and games from age 3 to 18.
Or why not try…
- Board games
- Card games
- Games with counters (such as nim listed above)
- sudoku and other printable games above.
- Cooking: weighting and measuring and buying ingredients
TOP TIP FOR PARENTS: Children can explain to you what they are doing and what they were going to try to solve a problem. Avoid leaping in and solving it for them, the journey is more important than the destination.
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