Best selling author Scott Flansburg has been teaching maths and entertaining people with his astonishing math skills for more than 20 years. Today was our day to be entertained and inspired by ”The Human Calculator’.
Scott was visiting to help promote the Commonwealth Bank Australian Maths Challenge – 31 August to 1 September 2010.
The challenge will [...]
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Special Guest: Scott Flansburg (Mathletics)
It won’t happen again like this until the year 2040!! Mercury, Venus, Mars and Saturn
People often express surprise that you can see planets without a telescope. The planets Mercury, Venus, Mars and Saturn are easily visible to the unaided eye in the evening twilight and early evening of the western sky (Sunday 8th August to 14th Saturday). The image below is useful for the whole week to show where the four [...]
World Maths Day – 3rd March
World Maths Day is on NOW! Can we unite to break the world record?
CONGRATULATION EVERYONE ON YOUR WONDERFUL EFFORT
YOU ANSWERED ALMOST 30 000 QUESTIONS CORRECTLY
This year features an exciting new format with multi-levels for all age groups. Can we beat last year’s world record of almost 2 million students from 204 countries correctly answering [...]
Who Stole the Anzac Cookie from the Cookie Jar?
This is a very difficult puzzle: There are five people – Holly, Cameron, Julieanne, Alex and Jackie. Each one stole a special cookie of their favourite brand which was kept in a jar. Each person ate it in a particular place and drank their flavoured milk with it.
Jackie is next to the person who eats [...]
