Weekly Challenge – 16 July 2020
Linked to post: Colourful Game of Life
Linked to post: Colourful Game of Life
Conway’s Game of life is a seemingly life-like animation where cells on a grid appear and disappear according to 3 quite simple rules that determine whether a cell stays as it is, or changes. This…
This challenge is linked to the post 2-colours-1-sequence
Sequences and patterns are a large part of what maths is really about. Here we are using 2 colours to generate a sequence. If we combine this with some of the ideas we used in…
This challenge is linked to the post – Prime Colours Escape Maze
In these mazes, you need colours to start, colours to move and colours to escape. Prime Colours is a way of doing arithmetic just using colours and this is an example of one of the…
The 4 Colour theorem was known to be practically true for at least 100 years before it was proved in 1976. It was the first mathematical proof that relied on computers to prove it. Even…
This is linked to the post – https://momentofmaths.roots2grow.org/2020/06/26/colouring-maps-and-networks/
Link to supporting post – https://momentofmaths.roots2grow.org/2020/06/19/colourithms/
The puzzles this week are a form of cryptarithm. Cryptarithms use letters in place of digits to form a puzzle out of a standard arithmetical calculation. In this challenge, we’ll practice some of the techniques…