Puzzles are fun, explaining them is hard. So here are plenty to verbalise about. For students who will go on to advanced mathematics, being able to explain your thinking is an invaluable skill. This unit is full of tasks which are designed to be fun, challenging and particularly suited to verbalising thinking.

Chasing

Post Code

Diamond Jim

Secret Prices

Shopping Spree

Odds and Sods

Puppy Litter

Number Witch One

Number Witch Two

Number Witch Three

 

Bibliography: A list of the books which have served to inspire tasks within the EUMY Mathematics set.

Acknowledgements. The author would like to acknowledge the invaluable assistance of her mathematical models who appear throughout these tasks:

Epsilon-pi and Smidgin Ubiquitous

We call them Epsi and Smidge!