Alien Currency
The planet Zog has both green and blue bank notes. Can you work out how many zogs two green and three blue bank notes are worth?
The planet Zog has both green and blue bank notes. Can you work out how many zogs two green and three blue bank notes are worth?
Weekly Problem 52 - 2017
Sue cuts some squares from a piece of paper to make a Christmas decoration. What is the perimeter of the resulting shape?
Can you find out what numbers divide these expressions? Can you prove that they are always divisors?
What is the largest number which, when divided into these five numbers in turn, leaves the same remainder each time?
Do you have enough information to work out the area of the shaded quadrilateral?
Construct two equilateral triangles on a straight line. There are two lengths that look the same - can you prove it?
Imagine a room full of people who keep flipping coins until they get a tail. Will anyone get six heads in a row?
These two group activities use mathematical reasoning - one is numerical, one geometric.
In this game the winner is the first to make the total 37. Is this a fair game?
Ahmed is making rods using different numbers of cubes. Which rod is twice the length of his first rod?