Liz Zelencich

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Expand Your Mind
Have a go at problem solving
1. Complete these magic squares make a total of 15.
6 2
3
9
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3
8
7 5
Lunar
theme park:
The year is 2050. People are colonising the moon
and you have decided to open the rst lunar theme
park in history. Your spending limit is $500,000.
You must carefully decide what sort of rides you are
going to have. You also need to think about the other
facilities visitors will need when they come to your theme
park like toilets, cafes, shops and paths between all the
facilities and rides.
Many theme parks have different areas that are
themed. In other words they might have an African
area, an outback Australian area or a seaside
area. Think carefully about what you want to
have in yours. Get designing!
Backwards and forwards
Start with a two-digit number, for example: 32
Reverse it and add the result to the original number: 32 + 23 = 55
The result is palindromic after one reversal. 55
Now try it with another two-digit number, such as: 57
Reverse it and add the result to the original number: 57 + 75 = 132
Reverse and add again: 132 + 231 = 363
This time the result is palindromic after two reversals. 363
Can you nd two-digit numbers that are palindromic after one reversal? After two reversals? After three reversals? After more than three reversals?
The numbers 89 and 98 take 24 reversals!
Investigate the same process with three-digit numbers
This square has eleven letters missing, which you have
to replace. Every row, column AND the main diagonals
contain all the letters in the word "BRAVE".
Playing cards:
There are three playing cards lying face up, side by side. A ve is
just to the right of a two. A ve is just to the left of a two. A spade
is just to the left of a club, and a spade is just to the right of a spade.
What are the three cards?
Nicknames
Dawn, Mark, Josh and Tina are friends. They each
have a nickname.
Their nicknames are Spider, Curly, Ace and Fudgy,
but not in that order.
What is the nickname of each of the friends?
CLUES
Josh plays tennis with Curly and goes swimming
with Ace.
Tina has been on holiday with Curly but travels to
school with Fudgy.
Spider, Curly and Dawn play in the football team.
Spider sometimes goes to tea with Josh.
Numbers
Numbers of boys and girls. Use these clues to
nd the number of boys and girls in each class.
There are a total of 114 children in the school.
There are 14 girls in class 2.
Class 4 has twice as many girls as class 2.
No class has the same number of children.
There are 52 boys in the school in total.
In class 1 there are half as many boys as in
class 2. In class 2 there are a total of 30 children.
In class 3 there are an equal number of girls and
boys. In class 4 there are 10 boys.
There are a different number of boys and
girls in the school.
Choose a sandwich
Sarah, Jenny, Joe and Paul
each choose a sandwich
lling. They can choose
from: tuna, salad, cheese,
or chicken.
Each child chooses a
different lling.
CLUES
Sarah doesn't like sh.
Jenny cannot eat dairy products.
Joe does not eat meat or sh.
Jenny doesn't like tuna or chicken.
Which sandwich lling does each child choose?
CHILD DOOR NUMBER ROAD
Who Lives Where?

Three children live at houses with different coloured doors. What colour door do they each have, what number house do
they live at and on what road?
Child: George, Jake, Sophie
Door: Blue, Green, Red
Number: 1, 2, 3
Road: Bridge Street, Cherry Close, Sandy Lane

Sophie's house No. is 1 lower than Jake's. George does not live at House No. 1, but does have a green door.
One child lives at No. 2 Cherry Close. House No. 1 has a red door, but is not on Sandy Lane.
Trains:
One train runs from A to B
at 105 kilometres per hour,
the other runs from B to
A at 85 kilormetres per
hour. How far apart were
the two trains 30 minutes
prior to their crossing?
The ball
How can you throw a ball as hard as you can and have it come back to you, even if it doesn't bounce off
anything? There is nothing attached to it, and no one else catches or throws it back to you.
You are to make a row of four 2D shapes.
The rst and the second shapes have a total of 11 sides.
The second and third shapes have a total of 15 sides.
The third and fourth shapes have a total of 13 sides.
The rst and the last shape have a total of nine sides.
The last shape has twice as many sides as the rst.
Can you draw the four shapes in the correct order?
You are to make a row of ve 2D shapes.
The pentagon is between the hexagon and the octagon.
The rst three shapes have a total of 15 sides.
There are a total of 26 sides in the row of ve shapes.
The last three shapes have a total of 15 sides.
The rst shape has two more sides than the last shape.
Can you draw the ve shapes in the correct order?
QUESTIONS
Antony ordered 7 pizzas. He paid $315. What is the
cost of each pizza?
Answer:
The maintenance charge collected from 8 houses is
$120. What is the maintenance charge per house?
Answer:
Sony digital company sends announcements to the
employees by email. 6 Sony executives sent emails
to 324 employees. What is the number of emails
sent by each executive?
Answer:
A orist made 210 bouquets in 5 days. How many
bouquets did the orist make in a day?
Answer:
Palindrom
ic num
bers
8, 33, 161, 222 and 2998992 are examples of palindromic numbers.
How many palindromic numbers are there between:
0 and 100? 100 and 200? 200 and 300? 300 and 400?
0 and 1000? 1000 and 1100? 1100 and 1200? 1300 and 1400?
Can you work out how many palindromic numbers there are between 0 and 2000?
What about between 0 and 10000?
Try to guess what message the picture is trying to get across