MATHS MATTERS 

AT MPS

MATHS MATTERS AT MPS

Welcome to the second edition of Maths Matters. We hope you enjoyed solving our previous tasks and are now ready for more challenges from Milo (Year 2), Harvey & Aara (Year 3), Anna & Charlie (Year 4), Tess & Eden (Year 5) and Henry & Jude (Year 6). 

Week 5 Solutions - Junior: 8:05am, 4 slices Middle: 12/10 or 1 2/10, $7.00, 1047, 2610, 12, 1/12, Upper: 118°

Warm Up Task: 

Can you make the number 24 from these four digits - all digits must be used. There is more than one solution!     6, 9, 2, 8

 JUNIOR SCHOOL MATHEMATICIANS 

1. The Peanuts Movie runs for exactly 1 hour and 33 minutes. How many minutes is that altogether?

2.  Healthy Harry eats 2 bananas a day for a fortnight. How many days and how many bananas is that?           

    

MIDDLE SCHOOL MATHEMATICIANS 

1. Ashley earned $3.50 for washing the dishes and $7.40 for cleaning her dad’s car. If she spends $4 on a pencil case for school, how much money does she have left?
2. A theatre has 28 rows of seats with 30 seats in each row. If 45 seats are taken, how many seats are still available?

UPPER SCHOOL MATHEMATICIANS    

1. The Flinders Street line has 13 stations which are equally spaced apart at intervals of 23km. The 9:45 train departs from Flinders Street and takes 15 minutes to get to each station but it’s express and doesn’t stop. How long would it take for the train to get to the final station?  
2. What 3-digit number has the most factors? (clue - it has more than 20 factors)
3. What is the value of angle x?     

1. When did the earliest form of the ABACUS appear, and in what country?

DID YOU KNOW? 

40 degrees Celsius is 104 degrees Fahrenheit, but -40 degrees Celsius is also -40 degrees Fahrenheit!