Web Challenge
Check out this link to our Web Challenge entry for 2009. It was made by Dan, Natasha and Sam who were the overall winners in the competition.
Maths Activities
Click on this link to go to the families section of the NZ Maths website. There are lots of great activities to help your maths skills.
Junior Maths Challenges 
Winter has set in. The three little kittens are very cold and they need mittens. Mother Cat decided to make mittens. It takes two balls of wool to make mittens for one kitten.
How many balls of wool will Mother Cat need to make mittens for the three little kittens?
Mother Cat went shopping to buy balls of wool. One ball of wool costs $1. How much money will mother cat have to spent to buy all the wool she needs?
For more maths challenges and the answers to these problems please visit NZ Maths Problem Solving Level 1.
Middle Maths Challenges
Jennie the old sheep dog is lazing around in the paddock near the house. She counts the number of animals in the paddock. There are 11 of them, pigs and ducks. Then her eye runs over the legs. She sees 28 legs.
How many ducks are there?
For more maths challenges and the answers to these problems please visit NZ Maths Problem Solving Level 2.
Senior Maths Challenges
Two ladybirds, Freda and Fred, were playing a game on a numberline. Fred can jump three numbers at a time and Freda can only jump two. Fred started at 1 and Freda started off at 30.
If they both jumped together, who got to the 100 first and how long did they have to wait for the other one?
For more maths challenges and the answers to these problems please visit NZ Maths Problem Solving Level 3.
Interesting Websites to Visit
http://www.childrensmusichalloffame.com/
http://www.digivillage.org.nz/
Ministry of Fisheries Kids Zone
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