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The Two Chests Puzzle

There are 5 bags of coins and two treasure chests. Your task is to place the bags of coins into the two chests so that the bigger chest has twice as many coins as the smaller. There are 3 different ways to do it. How many can you find?

There are two puzzles attached, one with the coins 1,2,3,4 and 5 and the other one with coins 5,10,15,20 and 25.

Good luck!

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The Deputy First Minister’s Spring Maths Challenge 2020

The Deputy First Minister’s Spring Maths Challenge 2020 was published last Thursday, 9th April and it is packed with fun problems and puzzles.

Follow the link:

https://www.parentclub.scot/articles/deputy-first-ministers-spring-maths-challenge-2020

Want to know the answers? They’ll be available on the Making Maths Count blog from 10 April 2020.

Dr Webster