### Biscuit Decorations

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?

### Which Scripts?

There are six numbers written in five different scripts. Can you sort out which is which?

### The Deca Tree

Find out what a Deca Tree is and then work out how many leaves there will be after the woodcutter has cut off a trunk, a branch, a twig and a leaf.

# Magic Vs

##### Stage: 2 Challenge Level:

Place each of the numbers $1$ to $5$ in the V shape below so that the two arms of the V have the same total.

How many different possibilities are there?
What do you notice about all the solutions you find?

Can you explain what you see?

Can you convince someone that you have all the solutions?

What happens if we use the numbers from $2$ to $6$? From $12$ to $16$? From $37$ to $41$? From $103$ to $107$?

What can you discover about a V that has arms of length $4$ using the numbers $1-7$?