MATHS

Numeracy Week

It’s 'Numeracy Week' and that means puzzles, challenges and lunchtime games.

On Monday, we ran Mathopoly in the Middle School Quadrangle.   Roll the dice, move ahead and hope you’ll land on a cone and get a Maths question. Get two questions right and win a prize!

On Wednesday, we ran Blockbusters on the Junior School Deck.  Solve all the puzzles on a cube and put them in order to get part of a jumbled message.

Solve all the cubes, to get the whole jumbled message.

Unjumble the message and you’re done.

The whole process takes over half an hour and requires precision and determination.

Solvers included; Callum from 7.37, Rhys from 7.39, Natalia and Hazel from 7.47 and Olivia from 7.52.

This week, we’ve also run online challenges on Compass. There are four puzzles ranging from difficult to ridiculously difficult.

Here they are. Have a go yourself!

Puzzle 1

Puzzle 1 has been solved by Damian Armstrong, Gabby Bassett, Casey Conlin, Stellamay Lambert, Rocci Pitasi, Josh Portbury, Nick Reid, Emma Smith, Tyler Swann and Hannah Zinnack.

The fastest solver was Josh Portbury.

Puzzle 2

Puzzle 2 has been solved by Damian Armstrong, Rocci Pitasi, Josh Portbury and Hannah Zinnack.

The fastest solver was Josh Portbury.

Puzzle 3

Puzzle 3 has been solved by Gabby Bassett, Stellamay Lambert, Emma Smith, Nick Reid and Hannah Zinnack.

The fastest solver was Hannah Zinack.

Puzzle 4

Puzzle 4 remains unsolved. We had a clever effort using an online anagram solver.

Greg Bourne

Assistant Head of Maths

Maths Tutoring

Cross age tutoring is continuing to run this semester on Monday afternoons from 3.00 pm to 3.45 pm in the Library.  

Students are asked to bring along work to complete or homework sheets to receive some assistance on.

A reminder, parental permission is required. Students must bring a note along to the session.

Elizabeth Rundell

Head of Maths