Miss Krems’ little Maths presents
Maths and creative handicraft work are not the best partners … at least the opinion of those who think Maths is a book with seven seals. Miss Krems prooves the opposite.
The Towers of Hanoi are a mathematical puzzle and patience game. The game is made up of several different-sized punched slices put up on three rods A, B and C. At the beginning all slices are on rod A, sorted according to their size, with the biggest slice on the bottom and the smallest one on top. The object of the game is to move the slices in this order from rod A to C. With every move the upmost slice may be put onto on of the other rods, but only if there is not already a smaller slice. Consequently all slices are at all times og the game organized according to their size.
A Pentomino Calender is made up of 7 figures. 6 of these 7 figures are supposed to be put on a field of 31 squares (numbers of a monthly calender), that exactly one square will be left over. (either todays date or the date of a birthday)
Literature gos Maths – Jules Verne describes a codification in his novel Mathias Sandorf by the means of a stencil. You put the stencil on a rectangle that fits to the size of the stencil and the codificated text will be noted letter-wise. For the decodification the stencil must be used again.
Your friends and family will be amazed ! You ask someone to think of any number between 1 and 100. Then you will put one card of numbers after the other on the table and each time you ask, if the imagined number is shown on it. Eventhough you will only get a “yes” or a “no” for an answer, you will be able to guess the number. Do you want to know more about it? Then sign up for the Maths Club.