Fractions

Can you work out how many apples there are in this fruit bowl if you know what fraction there are?

This challenge asks you to imagine a snake coiling on itself.

When I type a sequence of letters my calculator gives the product of all the numbers in the corresponding memories. What numbers should I store so that when I type 'ONE' it returns 1, and when I type 'TWO' it returns 2, and so on.

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

Investigate the successive areas of light blue in these diagrams.

What does the empirical formula of this mixture of iron oxides tell you about its consituents?

Katie and Will have some balloons. Will's balloon burst at exactly the same size as Katie's at the beginning of a puff. How many puffs had Will done before his balloon burst?

Which of the areas shown in the hexagons are equal to each other?

Find out why these matrices are magic. Can you work out how they were made? Can you make your own Magic Matrix?

At the corner of the cube circular arcs are drawn and the area enclosed shaded. What fraction of the surface area of the cube is shaded? Try working out the answer without recourse to pencil and paper.