Grade 10 Maths VideosRead all about our exciting adventures in this month’s newsletter, which you can download by clicking on the button below. Some highlights include: Feedback on the National AMESA conference Using stories in the classroom The world robotics competition And dealing with Errors on the calculator. We hope you enjoy it 🙂 Let us know what […]
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Dear Fellow Smart Solvers, Happy new year for 2015! We hope you enjoyed your well-deserved break and that you were able to rest and enjoy precious time with your family. Congratulations to Gauteng for achieving the top matric pass rate result in the country! (For more information on results from around the country please click […]
Dear Fellow Smart Solvers, The end is near! Don’t worry, I mean the end of the year, of marking and of another group of matric students. Congratulations! You survived another year and you can finally put your feet up and relax a little bit (although I’m sure there will still be maths prep going on […]
Dear Fellow Smart Solvers, I feel like I say this every newsletter – but September! Where has the year gone? I feel like it is flying by so fast I must be developing extra grey hair and wrinkles. I’m sure the third term has been incredibly busy for everyone and particularly for those grades who […]
Dear Fellow Smart-Solvers Welcome back for term 3! I hope the long holiday was restful and that the only math you did was counting sheep to help you fall asleep JAnd to the IEB teachers, hang in there, not long to go before you get to have a break too. To all our Muslim readers: […]
The Riddle: The police rounded up Jim, Bud and Sam yesterday, because one of them was suspected of having robbed the local bank. The three suspects made the following statements under intensive questioning: Jim: I’m innocent. Bud: I’m innocent. Sam: Bud is guilty. If only one of these statements turns out to be true, who […]
Dear Fellow Smart Solvers June! When did that happen? Just the other day it was March… With only the last week before the end of the term, end of June exams and end of the first half the year, 2014 is rushing away with us. The only thing that doesn’t seem to be rushing away […]
Wow! This one was really quite a stumper. The Riddle: One day your minimalist friend is visiting, and she presents you with the numbers 2, 3, 4 and 5, and the symbols = and +, and the following tantalizing challenge: Is it possible to use each number and symbol once and only once and end […]
Dear Fellow Teachers, Welcome back to the second term (IEB teachers hang in there – we are nearly at the end of your first term). I hope the next three months are productive and that you find new and exciting ways to teach a fabulous subject. We would also like to wish our Christian teachers […]
The Riddle: In Germany there are calendars made of wooden blocks for very bright kids. There are two six sided dice, and by choosing which face is displayed for the two of these, all possible monthly dates (from 01, 02, …, to 29, 30, 31) can be displayed; note the single digit dates must start […]