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What is the greatest number of squares you can make by overlapping three squares?

Two Dice

Find all the numbers that can be made by adding the dots on two dice.

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?

Can You Do it Too?

Age 5 to 7
Challenge Level

Here are some pictures of people throwing things in Olympic events.
The first one shows a man throwing a hammer and the second shows a woman throwing a discus.

 

They can throw them a long way. A recent Olympic record for throwing the hammer was about 80 adult strides and for throwing the discus was about 70 adult strides.

How far can you throw a beanbag?

Can you throw a beanbag 70 strides?

Can you throw a beanbag 80 strides?

 

Photograph acknowledgement:

"2017-08-04-Matt Duboff-Discus-9 (36243217722)" by 2017 Canada Summer Games is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0

 

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