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Film clips. Puzzle a day. If a lion has 4 legs, a cheetah has 6 legs and an antelope 8 legs, how many legs has a buffalo? 6. two legs per vowel. What size of pile could you build with a box of 200 oranges?. How many oranges are here?
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Puzzle a day • If a lion has 4 legs, a cheetah has 6 legs and an antelope 8 legs, how many legs has a buffalo? • 6. two legs per vowel
What size of pile could you build with a box of 200 oranges? • How many oranges are here? • A shopkeeper builds a similar pile of oranges but with one extra layer. How many oranges would this have?
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2J J ÷ B A + D B x G Y ÷ E – D C + D W – R I x B T E E N A G E R Code Words A = 1 B = 2 C = 3 D = 4 E = 5 F = 6 G = 7 H = 8 I = 9 J = 10 K = 11 L = 12 M = 13 N = 14 0 = 15 P = 16 Q = 17 R = 18 S = 19 T = 20 U = 21 V = 22 W = 23 X = 24 Y = 25 Z = 26
What other times could you measure? What if you had three separate sand timers? • When you turn over this egg timer, three sand timers measure 3 minutes, 4 minutes and 5 minutes. They cannot be turned over individually. • How could you use the timer to measure 6 minutes? • You could measure 7 minutes by adding together 3 and 4 minutes - but does it matter which you do first?
The right hand star in each set is the result of the two other stars multiplied together, minus one. 9 35 4 ? 36 7 7 20 3 Puzzle a day • Can you fill in the missing number?
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I – G + B C x G J – G V ÷ B Z ÷ B – A C2 B x G P - I D U C K L I N G Code Words A = 1 B = 2 C = 3 D = 4 E = 5 F = 6 G = 7 H = 8 I = 9 J = 10 K = 11 L = 12 M = 13 N = 14 0 = 15 P = 16 Q = 17 R = 18 S = 19 T = 20 U = 21 V = 22 W = 23 X = 24 Y = 25 Z = 26
The whole bar weighs 100 grams. What does one square weigh? A recipe uses 28 grams of chocolate. How many squares is this? • How many squares does this chocolate bar have? To answer this question, it may help to measure the photograph with a ruler.
Puzzle a day • Change one letter in each word to form three new words with a common theme. • WALL CASTER TROY • WALK, CANTER, TROT.
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C x G – B P ÷ B U – P D2 V – N A + D I x B X ÷ F S H E P H E R D Code Words A = 1 B = 2 C = 3 D = 4 E = 5 F = 6 G = 7 H = 8 I = 9 J = 10 K = 11 L = 12 M = 13 N = 14 0 = 15 P = 16 Q = 17 R = 18 S = 19 T = 20 U = 21 V = 22 W = 23 X = 24 Y = 25 Z = 26
What is the area of one of the parallelograms? • This tiling consists of squares and parallelograms. The large squares each have an area of 1 square meter. The angle between the large squares and small squares is 45 degrees. • What is the area of one of the small squares?
Puzzle a day • Betty was making flowers for the local carnival. 11 flowers had red in them, 7 had yellow in them and 5 had both red and yellow in them. • How many flowers did she make? Red 6 R and Y 5 Yellow 2
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B x D R – M P ÷ D P – I T – L – C F x C Y – J J + M H E D G E R O W Code Words A = 1 B = 2 C = 3 D = 4 E = 5 F = 6 G = 7 H = 8 I = 9 J = 10 K = 11 L = 12 M = 13 N = 14 0 = 15 P = 16 Q = 17 R = 18 S = 19 T = 20 U = 21 V = 22 W = 23 X = 24 Y = 25 Z = 26
You can buy domino sets going up to "double twelve." How many tiles would these sets have? • A normal set of dominoes has 28 tiles and the largest is "double six." This special domino set has more tiles and the largest is "double nine." How many tiles does it have?
Puzzle a day • Two men were leading cows along a road, and the first said to the other “give me two cows and I’ll have as many as you have.” After this was done, the second said “Now you give me two cows and I’ll have double the number you have.” • How many cows were there, and how many did they have each?
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Z ÷ B B ÷ B C x E – A T ÷ E Z – Y B x IR ÷ B Z - L M A N D A R I N Code Words A = 1 B = 2 C = 3 D = 4 E = 5 F = 6 G = 7 H = 8 I = 9 J = 10 K = 11 L = 12 M = 13 N = 14 0 = 15 P = 16 Q = 17 R = 18 S = 19 T = 20 U = 21 V = 22 W = 23 X = 24 Y = 25 Z = 26
Can you find a rule that gives the length of railing for any given number of hoops? • The horizontal bar in the photograph has holes spaced 10 cm apart for the hoops to pass through. One hoop is 30 cm wide. • How many hoops would you need to make a railing that is 250 cm long?
5 13 10 15 4 4 5 4 1 0 2 4 4 2 6 6 Puzzle a day • Which number should replace the question mark? • 5. the centre numbers are the result of the bottom two numbers subtracted from the top number
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Your answers should be two numbers in the Fibonacci sequence 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34 • See what you can find out about the Fibonacci sequence. • The seeds in this yellow daisy make spiral patterns. Some of the spirals go in a clockwise direction and some go anticlockwise. • Count the number of spirals going in each direction.
T – AZ – A B + A G – (B x C) J + C T – E F x C J – E S Y C A M O R E Code Words A = 1 B = 2 C = 3 D = 4 E = 5 F = 6 G = 7 H = 8 I = 9 J = 10 K = 11 L = 12 M = 13 N = 14 0 = 15 P = 16 Q = 17 R = 18 S = 19 T = 20 U = 21 V = 22 W = 23 X = 24 Y = 25 Z = 26
1 1 2 2 6 7 6 5 ? 3 3 4 A puzzle a day • which number should replace the question mark? • 4. The numbers in each block of 3 add up to 11.
Can you see any right angles here? • This beautiful patchwork quilt has quite a complex design. • Try to see the basic units from which it is constructed.
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B x C X ÷ B T – S Z ÷ B C x C C x E – A B x C + A T - E F L A M I N G O Code Words A = 1 B = 2 C = 3 D = 4 E = 5 F = 6 G = 7 H = 8 I = 9 J = 10 K = 11 L = 12 M = 13 N = 14 0 = 15 P = 16 Q = 17 R = 18 S = 19 T = 20 U = 21 V = 22 W = 23 X = 24 Y = 25 Z = 26
Try to figure out an answer before counting the holes in the picture. • The picture shows the ventilation holes in a hair dryer. • There are 9 holes in the first circle and 12 holes in the next circle. How does the pattern continue?
Puzzle a day • What comes next in the following sequence? • 1, 4, 5, 6, 7, 9, 11, ? • 100. This is the sequence of numbers with no letter ‘t’ in their names.
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B x C X ÷ B T – S Z ÷ B C2 C x E – B B x C + A T - E F L A M I N G O Code Words A = 1 B = 2 C = 3 D = 4 E = 5 F = 6 G = 7 H = 8 I = 9 J = 10 K = 11 L = 12 M = 13 N = 14 0 = 15 P = 16 Q = 17 R = 18 S = 19 T = 20 U = 21 V = 22 W = 23 X = 24 Y = 25 Z = 26
Jelly beans are sold in "40 official flavours". Suppose that the jelly bean company asks you to design a similar box that could hold all 40 flavours. Is this possible? • Each compartment in this box contains six jelly beans of the same flavour. They are arranged in two layers of three beans. There is a different flavour in each compartment. • How many different flavours are there in the box? How many beans are there altogether?
puzzle a day • Which 4 letter word links all of these? • STEP, LOOSE, SORE, HOLD, LIGHTS • Foot
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A snail crawls across the tiles visiting the colours in order: red, yellow, black, red, yellow, black... • Is it possible for the snail to visit every tile? • This pattern uses square tiles of three different colours. They are arranged so that two tiles of the same colour never touch along an edge. The pattern uses equal numbers of the three colours. • Design a different pattern that also uses equal numbers of square tiles in three colours. The same colour must never touch along an edge.
D x E – A Y ÷ E – DT – D D2 X ÷ C C2 F x C J – E S A P P H I R E Code Words A = 1 B = 2 C = 3 D = 4 E = 5 F = 6 G = 7 H = 8 I = 9 J = 10 K = 11 L = 12 M = 13 N = 14 0 = 15 P = 16 Q = 17 R = 18 S = 19 T = 20 U = 21 V = 22 W = 23 X = 24 Y = 25 Z = 26
A puzzle a day • How many triangles can you see? • 35