Came across another nice puzzle from Mr Gordon (@MrGordonMaths): First thing I noticed was that it was a pythagorean triple. My initial thought was that there might be a solution involving circle theorems, but then I realised that as an area was given this might be the best route. As angle QPS IS 90, then […]| cavmaths
I’ve been looking through my saved puzzles again and I found this nice little one in the maths newsletter from Chris Smith (@aap03102): It’s a nice little question that took me some thinking about. First I considered the half squares with hypotenuse 2. As these are isoceles RATs, that means their side length is rt2 […]| cavmaths
Today I want to look at another puzzle I found on math walks (from Traci Jackson @traciteacher): I love these 1-9 puzzles, and thought I’d have have a crack. First I considered the 9, with the 1 gone already that means that the 9 must share a line with the 2 and the 3 to […]| cavmaths