Place four pebbles on the sand in the form of a square. Keep adding as few pebbles as necessary to double the area. How many extra pebbles are added each time?
Make a set of numbers that use all the digits from 1 to 9, once and
once only. Add them up. The result is divisible by 9. Add each of
the digits in the new number. What is their sum? Now try some other
possibilities for yourself!
For this challenge, you'll need to play Got It! Can you explain the strategy for winning this game with any target?
All at the same time Ben passed a third of his counters to Jack,
Jack passed a quarter of his counters to Emma and Emma passed a
fifth of her counters to Ben.
They all passed on more than one counter.
After this they all had the same number of counters.
How many could each of them have started with?