The Little Math Puzzle Contest
The Little Math Puzzle Contest
Man seeks order and pattern in all things
Be ready to change your paradigm.
Puzzle #29
What are the next two numbers in this pattern?
9, 7, 8, 6, 7, 5, 6, 4, ____, ____
Send your response by 8:00 a.m., Friday, April 12 to:
math_puzzle@rwa.psbgm.qc.ca
Puzzle #27 was the following:
What is the next number in this series?
16, 23, 28, 38, 49, 62, 70, 77, 91, _____
The answer to Puzzle #27 is:
The answer is 101 and the pattern is digit sums:
to go from 16 to 23 you add 7 which is the sum of the digits 1 + 6.
The Winners -- Solvers of Puzzle #27
- Ashley Nowlan 9B - Mrs.Smith's grade 9
North and South Esk Regional High School - Sunny Corner
- John Cormier, grade 5
Claude D Taylor School - Riverview, New Brunswick.
- Dap Duong, grade 6
Lincoln Centennial School - St. Catharines, ONT.
- Jun Allard - grade 7
Birchmount school - Moncton, NB.
- Kristie McCue, Jon Philpott, Jer Atkinson, Tiffany Lodoen,
Michelle Woolsey Grade 4
Piper Creek School - Red Deer AB
- Matthew Fletcher
Sacred Heart Hight School - Newmarket Ontario.
- RACHEL BERNARD, KELLIE CHARLTON, BRADLEY DUGUAY, MELISSA GRENIER,
ANDREW LAW, BRIAN MCGRATH, AMANDA MURRAY, AMY POLLOCK, IAN MACDONALD
class 6-1 Mrs.Duguay`s class
Campbellton Middle School
- Leigh Perkins and 6/7 J.
K.V.M.S. - Burtts Corner, N.B.
- Heather Burkett, Kaitlin Boone, Jenna Rotz, Sheryl Saliba,
Erika Seelenbinder, Miriam Ferhut, Jessica Wilkerson, Brittany Hilker
Fourth Graders in Mrs. Seltzer's class
Indian Lakes Elementary School - Virginia Beach, VA, USA
- Kyla Holloway - Madame Scaplen's Gr.6 class.
- Sacred Heart - Marystown, Newfoundland
- Jovana Tomanic
Toronto, Canada
- Jaelyn Ford, Lisa Guest and Greg Hart - Grade Six Students
Lakeview Elementary School - Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada
http://upanet.uleth.ca/~lakeview
- Maggie Kurzela, Tess F.-K., David Lawson, Adam Solomon
Rawana_Tecumseh@halton.tor.hookup.net
- Brad Webb grade 4.
Stanley Elem. - Stanley ,NB
- Valerie Webber 6A
Keswick Valley Memorial School - Burtts Corner, NB
- Mike Daly, Daniel Wise, Adam Ansell & Adam Rudolph from 6W
Yorkhill Elementary School - Onward to Excellence - Thornhill, Ontario
http://www.interlog.com/~yorkhill/home.html
- Allison, Meaghan, Rosalie - grade 5/6, Mr.White's class
Brooklyn District School - Newport, N.S.
- Gemma Pippy, Brittany Janzen - Grade 4
Piper Creek Elementary School - Red Deer AB
- Chris Alward - Grade 8
Nelson Rural School - Miramichi,N.B.
- Sheila Chin & Claudio Tata - T. Burnie's Grade 7/8 class
St Ann School - Toronto, Ontario
- NORMA GENE JONES 6/7 J.
Burtts Corner, N.B. (jonesnog@nbed.nb.ca)
- Roxie. roxie@odyssee.net
Andrea Pollock and Alex Nazarov
math_puzzle@rwa.psbgm.qc.ca
Royal West Academy, Montreal West, Quebec.
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