April Challenge - Years 1 & 2

There are three baskets, a brown one, a red one and a pink one. Together they are holding a total of ten eggs.

The brown basket has one more egg in it than the red basket.

The red basket has three eggs less than the pink basket.

How many eggs are in each basket?

Getting Started:

Cut out ten eggs from paper and get three containers to represent the baskets.  Have a go at trying some different combinations.

After a while ask this: 

Why don't you choose a number of eggs for the pink basket? How many would be in the red basket, then? And how many in the brown basket?

Solutions are to be completed by Friday 28^th April.  Please post them into the Maths Challenge Box in the picture book library.

April Challenge - Years 3 & 4

Teddy is going on holiday to Spain.  He has packed four pairs of shorts and three t-shirts in his suitcase so that he has just enough clothes to be able to wear a different outfit each day of his holiday.  Can you work out how many days Teddy is going on holiday for?

To get started:  You could draw out teddy’s wardrobe and give him four different coloured pairs of shorts (eg. red, green, blue and yellow) and three different t-shirts (eg. spotty, striped and plain).  Work in an organized manner.  How many outfits could Teddy make with his red shorts? …his green shorts?  …and so on.

Solutions are to be completed by Friday 28^th April.  Please post them into the Maths Challenge Box in the picture book library.

April Challenge - Years 5 & 6

Have a go at these! Each number has some initials after it. Just work out what the initials mean as the numbers are the clues.

For example: 7 D in a W is 7 Days in a Week.

26 L in the A

24 H in a D

8 L on a S

52 W in a Y      or    C in a P (no J)

366 D in a L Y

6 W of H the E

7 S on a F P P

1000 M in a K

64 S on a C B

1066 B of H    (Hint:  Y5 you just wrote stories about this!)

28 D in F

200 P for P G in M

You do not need to solve them all to hand your solution in.  See how many you can get.  

Solutions are to be completed by Friday 28^th April.  Please post them into the Maths Challenge Box in the picture book library.

March Challenge - Years 1 & 2

Dan had 4 buckets.  He labelled each one with a number 1 through 4.  If he threw his bean bag into bucket 1, he got 1 point.  If he threw his bean bag into bucket 2, he got 2 points and so on.  Dan made a game of throwing 3 bean bags to see if he could get a high score.

Problem: 

a)     What is the highest score Dan could get with 3 bean bags?

For an extra challenge try these:

a)     Find three ways to score 6.

b)    Find three ways to score 9.

c)     What other totals could Dan get?

Solutions are to be completed by Tuesday 28^th March.  Please post them into the Maths Challenge Box in the picture book library.

March Challenge - Years 3 & 4

Face painting!

The holiday season has just begun in Pegness and everyone is getting ready for a busy holiday.  Ingrid works as a children’s face painter during the summer and already has some customers at her stall on the pier, “Wow, customers already!  I’m normally a bit rusty after a break so I won’t be able to paint many face to start with.”  Ingrid is normally slow to start painting but each day of the season she gets quicker with more practice.  She also gets more customers each day.  On the first day she painted four children’s faces, on the second day she painted six faces and on the third she painted nine faces.  Yesterday, the fourth day of the season, she painted thirteen faces.  She just got quicker and quicker.  So quick in fact that people from all around stopped to watch her at work as she painted faces faster than a bee’s wings!  Pegness was a popular place and that was partly down to Ingrid herself and her amazing painting powers.

Problem:  If Ingrid keeps getting quicker, how many faces will she have painted by the eleventh day of the summer season.

Day	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11
Faces painted

Hint: Use the chart to record the information from the story.  How many more faces does she paint on each day?  Can you see a pattern in how the numbers increase?

Solutions are to be completed by Tuesday 28^th March.  Please post them into the Maths Challenge Box in the picture book library.

March Challenge - Years 5 & 6

The Big Apple Orchard in New York has some of the biggest apples in the world.  Most apples grown here weigh in at over 1 kg.  But this year there is a problem.  An army of Scarlet Hairy Caterpillars is back in town munching through hundreds of Big Apple’s apples.

When Alex goes apple picking he finds that one out of eight apples has a caterpillar drilling a hole to the core.  “I can’t sell any of these apples which the caterpillars have had a go at!”

Some pickers are afraid of the enormous caterpillars, but others aren’t so bothered.  Henry says, “Actually, they’re alright.  The hairs tickle on the way down but really they taste just like apples!”

Problem:  How many saleable apples are there out of a crop of 112?

Hint: A chart might help you get started (although you may be able to do with just a couple of clever calculations).

Saleable apples	Apples attacked	Total number of apples picked
7	1	8

Solutions are to be completed by Tuesday 28^th March.  Please post them into the Maths Challenge Box in the picture book library.