Stage: 2 Challenge Level: 
On Annie's ninth birthday her Mum made her a cake which had the figures from $0$ to $9$ round the edge in red icing instead of candles.
Starting from the centre, Annie cut the cake into $3$ pieces with $3$ cuts so that the numbers on each piece added to the same total.
Where were the cuts and what fraction of the whole cake was each piece?
Investigations. Trial and improvement. Working systematically. Addition & subtraction. Combinations. Generalising. Calculating with fractions. Factors and multiples. Fractions. Multiplication & division.
Published March 2002,April 2002.
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