Friday, November 15, 2013

MATHLETE FRIDAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

          
TEASER NUMBER ONE:
      

                   Using only addition, how do you add eight 8’s and get the number 1000?


TEASER NUMBER TWO:

          Sally is 54 years old and her mother is 80, how many years ago was Sally’s mother three times her age?

      
TEASER NUMBER THREE:

           There is a basket containing 5 apples, how do you divide the apples among 5 children so that each child has 1 apple while 1 apple remains in the basket?

             
TEASER NUMBER FOUR:
    
       There is a three digit number. The second digit is four times as big as the third digit, while the first digit is three less than the second digit. What is the number?

             

5 comments:

  1. Teaser Number 1!
    888 +
    88 +
    8 +
    8 +
    8 =
    1,000!
    Solved by the one and only Kurtboy006 with help from Koala Kowan

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  2. Darn, you beat me. Good work!! Sue

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  3. Ok, Teaser 2: 41 years ago Sally was 13 and her Mom was 39.
    Teaser 3: Is hard... Give every kid an apple but the fifth kid gets the basket with the apple still in it??????
    Teaser 4: The number is 141.
    I like math brain teasers. But not too hard. Sue

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    1. All of them are correct! Good job!

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