September 2002, Stage 1&2

Problems

Butterfly Flowers

Stage: 1 Challenge Level:

Can you find 2 butterflies to go on each flower so that the numbers on each pair of butterflies adds to the same number as the one on the flower?

Penta Post

Stage: 2 Challenge Level:

Here are the prices for 1st and 2nd class mail within the UK. You have an unlimited number of each of these stamps. Which stamps would you need to post a parcel weighing 825g?

Napier's Bones

Stage: 2 Challenge Level:

The Scot, John Napier, invented these strips about 400 years ago to help calculate multiplication and division. Can you work out how to use Napier's bones to find the answer to these multiplications?

All the Digits

Stage: 2 Challenge Level:

This multiplication uses each of the digits 0 - 9 once and once only. Using the information given, can you replace the stars in the calculation with figures?

Six Is the Sum

Stage: 2 Challenge Level:

What do the digits in the number fifteen add up to? How many other numbers have digits with the same total but no zeros?

Reach 100

Stage: 2 Challenge Level:

Choose four different digits from 1-9 and put one in each box so that the resulting four two-digit numbers add to a total of 100.

LOGO Challenge 2 - Diamonds Are Forever

Stage: 2, 3 and 4 Challenge Level:

The challenge is to produce elegant solutions. Elegance here implies simplicity. The focus is on rhombi, in particular those formed by jointing two equilateral triangles along an edge.

September 2002, Stage 1&2

Problems

Butterfly Flowers

Stage: 1 Challenge Level:

Penta Post

Stage: 2 Challenge Level:

Napier's Bones

Stage: 2 Challenge Level:

All the Digits

Stage: 2 Challenge Level:

Six Is the Sum

Stage: 2 Challenge Level:

Reach 100

Stage: 2 Challenge Level:

LOGO Challenge 2 - Diamonds Are Forever

Stage: 2, 3 and 4 Challenge Level:

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