Rectangle PQRS has X and Y on the edges. Triangles PQY, YRX and XSP have equal areas. Prove X and Y divide the sides of PQRS in the golden ratio.
A 1 metre cube has one face on the ground and one face against a wall. A 4 metre ladder leans against the wall and just touches the cube. How high is the top of the ladder above the ground?
Investigate how you can work out what day of the week your birthday will be on next year, and the year after...
A kangaroo is sitting in the Australian outback. He plays a game in which he may only jump 1 metre at a time, either North, East, South or West. At how many different points could he end up after $10$ jumps? If you liked this problem, here is an NRICH task which challenges you to use similar mathematical ideas.
This problem is taken from the UKMT Mathematical Challenges.