Over the weekend I happened accross this loevely puzzle on twitter. It was tweeted out by Diego Rattaggi (@diegorattaggi) and I saved it to my ever growing folder of puzzles to try on my phone. When i had a bit of time spare I thought I would give it a go. Have you had a […]| cavmaths
Recently I gave some of my year 12 students some practice papers as homework to aid their revision. When they brought them back in one of them had literally copied to entire markscheme into to the answer paper, while another had watched a walk through and written up the answers with notes on how to do it next […]| cavmaths
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
Earlier today I was discussing and thinking about football accumulators, and accumulators in general. In case you don’t know what one is here is a quick overview. You basically pick a set number of bets and put an initial stake on, then if your first bet wins the winnings and stake roll over to the […]| 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