Volume II Number 3
November 3, 1995

Tom Murray, the coordinator of the The Math Puzzle, has been kind enough to give CM permission to run the weekly Little Math Puzzle Contest (inspired by The Great Canadian Trivia Challenge.)

About the Little Math Puzzle:

This contest is open to all participants but is designed for students in grades five through ten. English will be the language used for all problems and if their solutions relate to a language, the language will be English.

Each week a new puzzle will be presented and the answers and winners from two weeks earlier will be posted. Answers are to be received by 8:00 a.m. eastern time the following Friday.

The answers will then be judged, and a correct answer along with the winners' names, will be posted with the puzzle two weeks later.

Both individual students and entire classes are welcome to participate.

Do not to send your answers to CM. Instead, please send all answers to Andrea Pollock and Alex Nazarov at the following address:

math_puzzle@rwa.psbgm.qc.ca

With your solution please include your names, school, grade, and e-mail address, and your city.

This is left over from three weeks ago, because there just weren't enough right answers the first time.

What are the next two numbers?....

3, 1, 4, 1, 5, 9, __, ___ ? ?

Second Try Winners

• Jessica Sanders
  Mr. Bishop's Grade 8 class
  St. Peter Canisius School Watford, Ontario
• Mrs. Cantalini 7/8 class Gregory A. Hogan School, Sarnia, Ont
• Mrs. MacKellar's Grade 8 Math
  Cunard Junior High School Halifax, Nova Scotia
• Kara Ciccarelli, Brianne Kennedy, Vincent Spano
  Ms. Laudonio's Grade 5
  Gregory Hogan School Sarnia, Ontario
• William White
  Cunard Junior High School Halifax, Nova Scotia
  Grade 8
• Yorkhill Elementary School,
  Thornhill, Ontario
• Mary Belanger a teaching assistant
• Chris Machado
  Mrs. Delorme's Grade 8
  Gregory Hogan School Sarnia,Ont.
  (Chris also solved the next puzzle, #7)

Question #7 from two weeks ago was the following:

What is the next letter in the pattern?

R, E, B, M, U, ___

Winners Who Correctly Solved #7

• Mr. Van Lieshout's Grade 7 Class
  St.Peter Canisius School
• Mr. Farwell and Mr. denOuden's grade 5 class
  St. Anglea School Saskatoon, Sask.
• Grade 7 Math Class
  Horse Lake Elementary School RR#1, 100 Mile House, BC
  Ray Truant
• Gerry Noonan's Gr. 8 Class
  General Vanier School Winnipeg, MB
• Bryan Wood, Danielle Rodych, Megan Clear
  Ecole St-Germain Niveau/Grade-6, Winnipeg, MB
• Jessica Sanders
  Mr. Bishop's Grade 8 class
  St. Peter Canisius School, Watford, ON
• Patsy Dohey
  Fatima Academy
  St.Bride's, NF
• Dave Newbold, Shantelle Rivard, Sara Harrington, Tina Goncalves
  grade 4 & 5, Hastings School, St. Vital, MB
• St. Patrick's H.S., Sarnia, ON
  Junior mathematics club
  Grades 9 and 10
• Hedges School
  Grade 8 Math Class
  Winnipeg, MB
• Dana Falsetti, Matt Hoekstra, Jesse Lamb
  St. Margarets School, Sarnia, ON
• Dory Stucker, Elisha Chesler; Mrs. Boltuc's grade 5 class.
  Da Woon Chung, 8a Mrs Eisenstat's class, Yorkhill Elementary School,
  Thornhill, ON
• Dalhousie Regional High
  Grade 9
  Dalhousie, NB
  
• Sacred Heart Elementary School
  Sarnia, ON
  Shaun Siklosi
  Amanda Gardiner
  Chris Laycock
  Gabrielle Kern
  Sara Lavoratore
• Tiffiny Busk, Fraser Moore, Stephnie Moroney,Russel Beswick
  John MacNeil School
  Dartmouth, NS
• Ms. Laudonio's grade 5
  Gregory A. Hogan Sarnia, ON
• D. Sare, Sussex Junior High
  Sussex, NB
  
• Jenna Nicolai, Kelly Maheu, Amy Hatfield
  St. Margaret's. Sarnia, ON
  
• Kelli Cowley Tania DiCocco
  Grade 5
  teacher: Ms. Beth Cross
  Gregory A Hogan School, Sarnia ON
• Erin Doyle, Jaclyn Doyle, and Matthew Doyle
  St. Helen's School, Sarnia ON
• Anne Marie Arada
  Mr. Manzerolle's Grade 5 class
  St. Andrew School, Windsor, ON
• Alex Ferriera
  Grade 4/5 class, St. Margaret's School, Sarnia, ON
• Brian Yates, Chris Jeffery
  St.Margarets School, Sarnia, ON
• Gr. 6 Class
  Rm 48 (Mrs. G)
  SunValley School, Winnipeg, MB
• Tracy Constable
  Grade 9
  General Byng School, Winnipeg, MB
• Chris Machado
  Mrs. Delorme's Grade 8
  Gregory Hogan School Sarnia, ON
  

What are the next two integers?

2, 3, 5, 7, 11, __ , __

Please remember to send your response by 8:00 a.m. Friday, November 10 to:

math_puzzle@rwa.psbgm.qc.ca

Andrea Pollock and Alex Nazarov
math_puzzle@rwa.psbgm.qc.ca
Royal West Academy, Montreal West, Quebec.

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