Andrew decorated 20 biscuits to take to a party. He lined them up and put icing on every second biscuit and different decorations on other biscuits. How many biscuits weren't decorated?
You can make a calculator count for you by any number you choose. You can count by ones to reach 24. You can count by twos to reach 24. What else can you count by to reach 24?
Find the squares that Froggie skips onto to get to the pumpkin patch. She starts on 3 and finishes on 30, but she lands only on a square that has a number 3 more than the square she skips from.
Finlay from Stalyhill Junior School answered the final part of this problem, which asked how many more biscuits the children would need to bake so that they could share them equally with Miss King too. Finlay said:
Well done, Finlay. Emerson and Hamish from St Peter's added a bit more detail:
Ed from St Peter's sent in answers to all parts of the problem. He said:
Thank you, Ed. It's a shame you didn't tell us how you worked out this solution.