Mystic Rose
Use the animation to help you work out how many lines are needed to draw mystic roses of different sizes.
Use the animation to help you work out how many lines are needed to draw mystic roses of different sizes.
Can you work out the probability of winning the Mathsland National Lottery?
Which is bigger, n+10 or 2n+3? Can you find a good method of answering similar questions?
Charlie likes tablecloths that use as many colours as possible, but insists that his tablecloths have some symmetry. Can you work out how many colours he needs for different tablecloth designs?
In this follow-up to the problem Odds and Evens, we invite you to analyse a probability situation in order to find the general solution for a fair game.
What is special about the difference between squares of numbers adjacent to multiples of three?
Can you find the values at the vertices when you know the values on the edges of these multiplication arithmagons?
Can you explain what is going on in these puzzling number tricks?