Fun Time
On Saturday, Asha and Kishan's grandad took them to a theme park. Use the information to work out how long they were in the theme park.
On Saturday, Asha and Kishan's grandad took them to a theme park. Use the information to work out how long they were in the theme park.
This is a game to be played on your own or with friends. Imagine you are having a party. Each person takes it in turns to stand behind the chair where they will get the most chocolate.
Pick two rods of different colours. Given an unlimited supply of rods of each of the two colours, how can we work out what fraction the shorter rod is of the longer one?
If three brothers will get £20 more if they do not share their money with their sister, how much money is there?
The information display on a train shows letters by illuminating dots in a rectangular array. What fraction of the dots in this array is illuminated?
The sum of the numbers 4 and 1 [1/3] is the same as the product of 4 and 1 [1/3]; that is to say 4 + 1 [1/3] = 4 × 1 [1/3]. What other numbers have the sum equal to the product and can this be so for any whole numbers?
According to Plutarch, the Greeks found all the rectangles with integer sides, whose areas are equal to their perimeters. Can you find them? What rectangular boxes, with integer sides, have their surface areas equal to their volumes?
Using some or all of the operations of addition, subtraction, multiplication and division and using the digits 3, 3, 8 and 8 each once and only once make an expression equal to 24.