Homework

Posted by: cunningplan on 14 February 2005

I sure some of you remember my thread near the end of last year with regard the bullying of my daughter.

Anyway; everything is now fine we've taken our daughter out of the local school and she attends one of the private schools in the area.

Apart from the fact she's a totally happier and contented child, the work that the school seems to push on the kids has suprised us... this is not a complaint by the way.

Here is some homework which our 10 year old brought home last week and she was given a week to find the solution, it took a week for me and Mrs CP to work it out ourselves.

I'm sure you maths guys will find it easy enough, but what do you think about a 10 year old given this?

Please fill in the remainder of the empty squares, where each line vertical, horizontal, and diagonal will add up to 65 without using duplicate numbers in any line.



If you can draw a box 5x5 and put these numbers in the corresponding columns
First column top left 1
First column bottom left 10
Second column fourth down 6
Third column top 19
Third column second down 4
Fourth column bottom 2
Fifth column middle 12
Fifth column bottom right 25

Hope all that make sense.

Regards
Clive
Posted on: 14 February 2005 by Paul Ranson
When I was 10 we were making 'magic squares' at school mostly by following some rules. Assuming this relates to classwork it seems interesting and reasonable. This and related pages are pretty interesting.

Anyway it sounds like she's landed on her feet.

Paul
Posted on: 14 February 2005 by Lomo
I can remember the horrible mental arithmatic questions that our sadistic headmaster would hurl at us in the period prior to our lunch recess . Sixty in the class and first hand up and correct answer got you out of there.
Some never made it.
Posted on: 14 February 2005 by long-time-dead
Clive

So pleased to hear that things have worked out for the better.

LTD
Posted on: 14 February 2005 by JonR
Congratulations, Clive.

I'm glad things have worked out.

For the record my mother eventually bit the bullet when I was 15 (and having endured 6 and a half years of bullying at school) and sent me to a fee-paying college in another area. The place couldn't be more different. It cost her a bloody fortune but she gave my my education and for that I'll always be grateful.

Btw, your daughter's homework seems more like an item on a newspaper puzzle page than a 10 year old pupil's maths homework!!

Cheers,

JR