Mr Wayne Clarke, Head of Maths at SMH, writes

SMH were one of over 3500 schools to take part in the UK Junior Maths Challenge.

The top mathematicians from each school sat a one hour paper consisting of 25 questions and then only the top 40% receive certification.

Rudiments’ scholarship class received 1 gold, 8 silver and 5 bronze certificates, with Lotte M also receiving a certificate for ‘best in school’!

Here are some questions to try.  Good luck!

1. King Harry’s arm is twice as long as his forearm, which is twice as long as his hand, which is twice as long as his middle finger, which is twice as long as his thumb.  His new bed is as long as four arms.  How many thumbs length is that?

A  16            B  32            C  64            D  128           E  256

2. Granny swears that she is getting younger.  She has calculated that she is four times as old as I am now, but remembers that 5 years ago she was five times as old as I was at that time.  What is the sum of our ages now?

A  95            B  100           C  105           D  110           E  115

3. In a 7-digit numerical code each group of four adjacent digits adds to 16 and each group of five adjacent digits adds to 19.  What is the sum of all seven digits?

A  21            B  25            C  28            D  32            E  35