Mathematics

Year 3 to 6 students and adventurous others who like a challen, enjoy solving some of the Mathematical problems from Problemo with your family. 

Let Mrs Sutherland know how you go and you will receive two gotcha tickets for 'Spin it to Win it.'

Year Level / Difficulty

Year 3–4  🌶    Year 5–6  🌶 

Dodge Ball

The children in class 3P voted on their preferred colour for their new class set of dodge balls. Antoine recorded the results in a column graph but forgot to draw in the column for yellow.

There are 29 children in the class and everyone voted once. How many children voted for yellow?

Year Level / Difficulty

A Box of Socks

A box holds socks which are all the same size. There are 6 white, 10 blue and 16 grey socks.

What is the least number of socks I need to take out, without looking, so that I can be certain of getting a pair of matching socks?

Year Level / Difficulty

Disc Piles

I have five coloured discs in a pile as shown.

I take the top two discs and put them on the bottom (with the red disc still on top of the blue disc). Then I again take the top two discs and put them on the bottom.

If I do this until I have made a total of 21 moves, which disc will be on the bottom?

If you have any questions about Mathematics at St Cecilia's please contact:

Kate Sutherland, Mathematics Leader

ksutherland@scgleniris.catholic.edu.au