Wednesday: Asian Arithmetic.
You travel to The Great Wall of China in Beijing to find your next
clue. The Great Wall is 8850km long!
1. Is 8850 closer to 8000 or 9000?
2. How many thousands are in 8000?
3. You walk along the wall for 35 minutes before having a rest. Then continue on walking for another 45
minutes looking for your next clue. How
many minutes have you been walking for?
4. Have you been walking for more than one hour?
You leave The Great Wall and travel to a local Chinese Village where
you meet Foo the friendly Panda who is breaking two bricks at a time with his
Kung Fu kicks.
5. Foo counts the bricks in
twos…2, 4, 6, 8…what are the next five
numbers?
6. How
many kicks would it take Foo to break 20 bricks?
7. How
many kicks would it take Foo to break 44 bricks?
8. Foo smells a bowl of
dumplings and loses count of his kicks
so starts again from 1.
1, 3, 5... what are the next five numbers?
You share the bowl of 10 dumplings (equally) with yourself and with
Foo.
9. How many dumplings do you
each get?
10. If you wanted 6 dumplings
each, how many dumplings would you
need?
Extension:
In 2013 the population of China was 1,364,660,000
people! New Zealand has 4.4 million. How
many zeros are in one billion.
I wonder how many people will be able to answer all these tricky maths questions Miss Carryer? Maths week looks like lots of fun in Room 34. Good luck beating Room 33 in Mathletics this week.
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