{"id":824,"date":"2020-05-01T14:55:54","date_gmt":"2020-05-01T14:55:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.stpeterswaterlooville.co.uk\/year6\/?p=824"},"modified":"2020-05-01T15:15:07","modified_gmt":"2020-05-01T15:15:07","slug":"maths-puzzle-solutions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.stpeterswaterlooville.co.uk\/year6\/2020\/05\/01\/maths-puzzle-solutions\/","title":{"rendered":"MATHS PUZZLE SOLUTIONS"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Well done if you attempted any of the maths puzzles for last week. See below for the answers \ud83d\ude42<\/h1>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><strong>Task One<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.stpeterswaterlooville.co.uk\/year6\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2020\/04\/mon-sol.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-825\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.stpeterswaterlooville.co.uk\/year6\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2020\/04\/mon-sol-300x189.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"189\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.stpeterswaterlooville.co.uk\/year6\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2020\/04\/mon-sol-300x189.png 300w, https:\/\/blog.stpeterswaterlooville.co.uk\/year6\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2020\/04\/mon-sol.png 623w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is one out of many possible solutions! Hopefully this will help you decide if you were correct or not.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><strong>Task Two<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.stpeterswaterlooville.co.uk\/year6\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2020\/04\/tues-sol.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-826\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.stpeterswaterlooville.co.uk\/year6\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2020\/04\/tues-sol-249x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"249\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.stpeterswaterlooville.co.uk\/year6\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2020\/04\/tues-sol-249x300.png 249w, https:\/\/blog.stpeterswaterlooville.co.uk\/year6\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2020\/04\/tues-sol.png 340w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 249px) 100vw, 249px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For this task, the answer just had to be a shape with a number of sides equal to the number of sides in the two added shapes. So &#8211; any eight straight-sided shape.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><strong>Task Three<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.stpeterswaterlooville.co.uk\/year6\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2020\/04\/weds-sol.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-827\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.stpeterswaterlooville.co.uk\/year6\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2020\/04\/weds-sol-273x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"273\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.stpeterswaterlooville.co.uk\/year6\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2020\/04\/weds-sol-273x300.png 273w, https:\/\/blog.stpeterswaterlooville.co.uk\/year6\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2020\/04\/weds-sol.png 412w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 273px) 100vw, 273px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This was a tricky one. Some possible solutions are shown above. You can see that not all of these use four 4&#8217;s. Depending on how you read the question, you may have tried 44 div by 44 =1, or (4&#215;4) div by 4 div by 4 = 1. If you email in your ideas we will share a few..<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><strong>Task Four<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.stpeterswaterlooville.co.uk\/year6\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2020\/04\/thurs.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-818\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.stpeterswaterlooville.co.uk\/year6\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2020\/04\/thurs-300x224.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.stpeterswaterlooville.co.uk\/year6\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2020\/04\/thurs-300x224.png 300w, https:\/\/blog.stpeterswaterlooville.co.uk\/year6\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2020\/04\/thurs.png 361w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This was pretty straightforward too.<\/p>\n<p>Circle = 5<\/p>\n<p>Square = 1<\/p>\n<p>Triangle = 2<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><strong>Task Five<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Send in your own puzzles for us to share!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well done if you attempted any of the maths puzzles for last week. See below for the answers \ud83d\ude42 Task One This is one out of many possible solutions! Hopefully this will help you decide if you were correct or not. Task Two For this task, the answer just had to be a shape with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.stpeterswaterlooville.co.uk\/year6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/824"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.stpeterswaterlooville.co.uk\/year6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.stpeterswaterlooville.co.uk\/year6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.stpeterswaterlooville.co.uk\/year6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/46"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.stpeterswaterlooville.co.uk\/year6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=824"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.stpeterswaterlooville.co.uk\/year6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/824\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":828,"href":"https:\/\/blog.stpeterswaterlooville.co.uk\/year6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/824\/revisions\/828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.stpeterswaterlooville.co.uk\/year6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.stpeterswaterlooville.co.uk\/year6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.stpeterswaterlooville.co.uk\/year6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}