### Pizza Portions

My friends and I love pizza. Can you help us share these pizzas equally?

### Doughnut

How can you cut a doughnut into 8 equal pieces with only three cuts of a knife?

### Pies

Grandma found her pie balanced on the scale with two weights and a quarter of a pie. So how heavy was each pie?

# Snake Coils

## Snake Coils

Imagine a $600$ cm snake that coils into a circle, but he's not going to eat himself.
He is going to coil himself around to make a double circle, then a treble circle and so on until he is coiled round like this rope.

Challenge

Once in a circle how much further will he have to slither to make a double circle of his body. What's this length as a fraction of his total length?

How much further will he have to slither to make three circles of his body.
What's this length as a fraction of his total length?

How much further will he have to slither to make four circles of his body.
What's this length as a fraction of his total length?

How much further will he have to slither to make five circles of his body.
What's this further length as a fraction of his total length?

#### Hint

This diagram for the five coils might help you to imagine what is happening.
Each set of circles should be the same size and on top of each other, but we could not show that in a diagram.

#### Final challenge

When the snake has slithered a total of $550$ cms along his body length, making smaller and smaller circles of his body, how many circles will there be?

### Why do this problem?

This activity engages the pupils in both a spatial and numerical context. It gives them also the freedom to choose how they go about it - visualising in their head, using paper, string etc. that they have requested and/or making use of a spreadsheet. They can learn a lot from adopting one method and then realising that an alternative method would be better.

### Possible approach

Presented as on the problem page.