Maze 100

Can you go through this maze so that the numbers you pass add to exactly 100?

Watch Your Feet

I like to walk along the cracks of the paving stones, but not the outside edge of the path itself. How many different routes can you find for me to take?

Delia's Routes

A little mouse called Delia lives in a hole in the bottom of a tree.....How many days will it be before Delia has to take the same route again?

Pathways

Stage: 2 Short Challenge Level:

Why do this problem?

This is a short challenge which could be given to children, for example while the register is taken in the morning.

Key questions

What have you tried so far?

How will you keep track of what you have tried?

Possible extension

Learners could create their own arrangement of pathways so that it was possible to walk all around the paths without walking on the same part twice.

Possible support

Children could have a copy of this sheet to draw on the routes they try.

Working systematically. Sets of shapes. Networks/Graph Theory. Trial and improvement. Combinations. Fibonacci sequence. Visualising. Mathematical modelling. Route inspection problems.

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