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District finals
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Doctor Who and the
problem of the
famous
mathematicians
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Carol’s Sodoku Problem
Carol Vordeman needs help! Howard Gans,
an American architect, has set her a
Sodoku problem. He invented Sodoku in
1960, although he called it Number Place.
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Please help Carol, so that she can free
herself and go with Doctor Who to help
the other mathematicians!
Audience Quiz
Solve this
Sodoku
puzzle:
4
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4
1
2
1
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Charles Lutwidge Dodgson
Born Charles Lutwidge Dodgson at
Daresbury, Cheshire, England, in 1832, he
was educated at Rugby and Oxford, took
orders in 1861, and was a lecturer in
mathematics at Christ Church College,
Oxford, from 1855-81 when he resigned
to devote his life to writing under his
pseudonym, Lewis Carroll.
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Charles Dodgson found a way to
calculate which day of the week any
date, past or future, falls on. This soon
became a famous algorithm.
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The Doctor
has used the
algorithm to
find our what
day of the
week Rose
Tyler was born
on. He has left
you his notes.
PLEASE help Charles
Dodgson find out what
day of the week he was
born on.
Audience Quiz
PINK
Try a different
Charles Dodgson
puzzle. By changing
just ONE letter at a
time change the
word PINK into BLUE
in nine moves.
……….
……….
……….
……….
……….
………
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Try it – or be EXTERMINATED!
………
BLUE
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Leonhard Euler and the
asteroids.
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It is 1727 and in Basle in Switzerland
Leonhard Euler is pacing the floor. Once
again he cannot sleep. Help the Doctor
solve his problem.
You too AUDIENCE!
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Al Khwarizim the father of
algebra
Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi
was born sometime before 800 A.D.
in an area not far from Baghdad and
lived at least until 847. He wrote a
book called Al-jabr wa'l muqabala
from which our modern word
"algebra" comes. Al Khwarizim is
sometimes called as the father of
algebra.
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Audience Quiz
7x + 10 = 10
x=5
42 = 7x  14
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x=0
Match the ends and put these
dominoes in a line
Beware the Slitheens!
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Simon Singh is a
mathematician
of our day.
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However, as a boy he was
always interested in cracking
codes – he loved to study the
Enigma machine, the code
machine from World War II
He cannot crack this code, and
he is getting more and more
anxious. He needs to complete it
soon as he has a new job with
Captain Jack at Torchwood
Audience quiz
The labels on the cases of our adventurers
are in code. Can you identify which label
belongs to each traveller?
Simon
NDHJI
Tyler
YMRCJ
XVMJG
Carol
ZPGZM
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Lewis
Dr Who
Euler
OTGZM
GZRDN
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Tangrams
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Legend states that a servant of a Chinese
emperor was carrying a ceramic tile,
extremely expensive and extremely fragile.
The servant tripped, shattering the tile.
HELP!!!
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Simon, Rose, Carol and Captain Jack
have been captured by the Daleks. Only
YOU can release them by using the
Tangram pieces to key in the code 1728
Audience quiz
The Doctor is not sure
if he has the correct
code!
He knows the
digits are 1728
but he is not
sure of the
order
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How many different
arrangements can
you find using the
digits 1, 7, 2 and 8?
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Lancashire
Mathematics Challenge
2008
District finals
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Have a safe journey home