Jun 02 2008
This is another maths challenge. A set of football matches is to be organized in a “round-robin” fashion, i.e., every participating team plays a match against every other team once and only once.
If 21 matches are totally played, how many teams participated? Iam not quite sure but I think the answer could be seven.
Jun 02 2008
This is the question my maths teacher asked us to answer…. In the last holidays, my nephew came over to stay with me in Warrnambool. The weather was pretty bad, so we spent a lot of time indoors playing games…..but there was a sweetner attached to this fun, and we each earned a few yummy Bertie Beetles.
I think the answers 30 because 18 plus 6 equals 24 and you need to add another 6, so I think the answer is 30.
Everyday, at 11am we would play a game of chess. Whoever lost the game owed a Bertie Beetle to the other. After the last game we played (that was the day he had to leave), we counted the number of games each of us had won and lost. Drats! He had won more than me.
So, I handed him 18 Bertie Beetles… though I myself was the winner in 6 games.
How many days did my nephew spend at my house in Warrnambool?
The answer will be revealed at the end of the week….post your thoughts here at Technomaths and also on your maths page on your own blog.
Since this question has been posed, two comments have been posted. Could the answer be something different to 24?
May 22 2008
The year six science and maths teacher asked us to find out, How many squares of all sizes are on a checkerboard?
I think that there are a total of 204 squares all together on a checkerboard.
1×1 squares = 64
2×2 squares = 49
3×3 squares = 36
4×4 squares = 25
5×5 squares = 16
6×6 squares = 9
7×7 squares = 4
8×8 squares = 1
