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Christmas Numbers

Here is a numerical Christmas quiz for a little festive fun. You may ask an old person or use the Internet to help you find the answers to the difficult questions.

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White Christmas is a popular festive film. What is one more than the square of the product of the number of letters in the words 'White' and 'Christmas'?

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How many reindeers are mentioned in the introduction to the song 'Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer'?
Clue: the first odd composite number.

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How many days lie between Christmas Day and New Year's Day?
Clue: don't count the 25th.
Clue: don't count the 1st.

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In how many different ways can the letters in the word XMAS be arranged?

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How many letters are in the French word for Christmas?

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The mathematician Sir Isaac Newton was born on Christmas Day in which year?
Clue: The year contains the first three even numbers and the first odd number.

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Christmas day is the 25th December. What is the cube of the square root of 25?

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The Christmas story refers to three wise men. If 3 wise equal 27 what is y2-2?

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A Christmas star is made from two equilateral triangles. What is the sum of the interior angles of two triangles?

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You shouldn't be mean at Christmas but what is the mean of the answers above?

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ChrisMaths

ChrisMaths

Christmas activities make those December Maths lessons interesting, exciting and relevant. If students have access to computers there are some online activities to keep them engaged in worthwhile, festive mathematics.

Transum.org/ChristMaths/

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Xmas Tree Trim

Xmas Tree Trim

Use the lights provided to decorate each of the Christmas trees so that no two trees are the same. There are many levels to try.

The short web address is:

Transum.org/go/?to=xmastrim

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Xmas Consonants

Xmas Consonants

After working out which vowels are missing from the Christmas words do some basic calculations.

The short web address is:

Transum.org/go/?to=xmasconsonants

Instructions

Try your best to answer the questions above. Type your answers into the boxes provided leaving no spaces. As you work through the exercise regularly click the "check" button. If you have any wrong answers, do your best to do corrections but if there is anything you don't understand, please ask your teacher for help.

When you have got all of the questions correct you may want to print out this page and paste it into your exercise book. If you keep your work in an ePortfolio you could take a screen shot of your answers and paste that into your Maths file.

Why am I learning this?

Mathematicians are not the people who find Maths easy; they are the people who enjoy how mystifying, puzzling and hard it is. Are you a mathematician?

Comment recorded on the 19 October 'Starter of the Day' page by E Pollard, Huddersfield:

"I used this with my bottom set in year 9. To engage them I used their name and favorite football team (or pop group) instead of the school name. For homework, I asked each student to find a definition for the key words they had been given (once they had fun trying to guess the answer) and they presented their findings to the rest of the class the following day. They felt really special because the key words came from their own personal information."

Comment recorded on the 5 April 'Starter of the Day' page by Mr Stoner, St George's College of Technology:

"This resource has made a great deal of difference to the standard of starters for all of our lessons. Thank you for being so creative and imaginative."

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ChrisMaths

ChrisMaths

Christmas activities make those December Maths lessons interesting, exciting and relevant. If students have access to computers there are some online activities to keep them engaged such as Christmas Ornaments and Christmas Light Up.

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Go Maths

Learning and understanding Mathematics, at every level, requires learner engagement. Mathematics is not a spectator sport. Sometimes traditional teaching fails to actively involve students. One way to address the problem is through the use of interactive activities and this web site provides many of those. The Go Maths page is an alphabetical list of free activities designed for students in Secondary/High school.

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Are you looking for something specific? An exercise to supplement the topic you are studying at school at the moment perhaps. Navigate using our Maths Map to find exercises, puzzles and Maths lesson starters grouped by topic.

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