Maths Problem Solving
Dear Parents and Friends,
Each week we are going to have some fun problem solving questions for the students in the newsletter. We are hoping to increase the students understanding and knowledge when working with open ended/problem solving questions. Feel free to support your child through the process. Please email me your child’s answers and we can share their achievements each week in the newsletter.
Kind regards
Brendon Pye
Week 5 Maths Problems
Lower:
Miss Welfare owns 10 cars and a very large garage. If she can see 3 cars parked outside her garage, how many cars are inside? How many different ways can she park her cars inside and outside her garage? Draw a picture to show your working out.
Middle:
Rosie and Tess have agreed to work for 8 days to help their parents over the holidays. The pay they get will vary. Rosie will get $10 for the first day she works and an extra $1 every day she works after that(eg. Day 1=$10, day 2=$11, Day 3=$12 etc). Tess will get $1 for the first day she works, but for each day she works from then on, her pay will be doubled. Who would you rather be and why?
Upper:
Mrs Brearley has ten tiles with one of the numbers 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, and 9 on each of them. She plays around and discovers that she can make some addition sums like the one below.
What’s more, the four numbers on the tiles in the answer to the sum (the numbers in the bottom row), add up to 9.
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