Math Challenge

In your group solve the question, the first group to put up their hand will have a chance

to solve the question first. You will be collecting points as a group for answering the

questions correctly.

Question

• A snail crawls slowly up a garden wall 70cm high. If it crawls up 10cm per day and slips down 4 cm each night, how long will it take to reach the top of the wall?

Question

• What number comes next in the following sequence?

• 1 1 2 3 5 8 21 ?

Question

• If you divide 20 by one half and add 20, what do you get?

Question

• Jack and Jill went up the hill to fetch one gallon of water. Jack carried a 5 gallon pail and Jill carried a 3 gallon pail. How could Jack and Jill measure out just one gallon of water?

Question

• Which number doesn’t belong?• 12• 39• 27• 72• 16• 48• 87

Question

• How can Anne so easily recall this series of numbers, which she uses as a password to log onto her computer?

Question

Using these 3 identical shapes, create a hexagon and an equilateral triangle.

Question

• How many squares are there?

Question

• Hickory, dickory, dock

• Two mice ran across the clock.

• Their paths divided

• The clock into three,

• And the number’s sum

• In each the same be.

• What two straight paths do you see?

Question

• Complete the grid using the numbers 2 to 9 so that each row, each column and the 2 diagonals add up to the same number.

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