Volume II Number 2
October 27, 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.)

Royal West Academy (a high school) in Montreal, Quebec is sponsoring a little math puzzle contest.

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.

Contest Format:

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.

It can't be that hard. Let your minds go around some more -- no answer for this tasty dessert until next week . . . find some meaning to this series of digits.

The answers that most people sent were wrong. Please try to answer this tricky problem again.

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

Successful Solvers of Puzzle #6 were Wow! only four classes -- Congratulations.

• Mrs. Cantalini 7/8 class Gregory A. Hogan School, Sarnia, Ont.
• Kara Ciccarelli, Brianne Kennedy, Vincent Spano Ms. Laudonio's Grade 5 Gregory Hogan School, Sarnia, Ontario
• Mrs. MacKellar's Grade 8 Math Cunard Junior High School, Halifax, Nova Scotia
• William White Grade 8 Cunard Junior High School, Halifax, Nova Scotia

What are the next two integers? 21, 20, 18, 15, 11, 6, __, __

Please remember to send your response by 8:00 am Friday, November 3 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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