On Wednesday 24th April, eight maths-loving children went to South Craven School for a maths event along with other local primary schools.
The Year 3 and 4 pupils enjoyed solving the problems in the first round where there were three levels of difficulty for the brain teasers. Competitors received 5, 10 or 20 points (depending on the difficulty) for correct answers.
The Kildwick team went for the hardest ones straight away! Then came a round in which members of the team took turns to collect a triangular piece of a puzzle. To solve the puzzle all the calculations needed to be solved to work out how it fitted together. In the end it was a hexagon, some of the team members had to spot mistakes to work out why it wasn’t working.
The finale was a construction task, everyone was given paper straws and paper clips and challenged to build the tallest structure. However, the structure had to support a rubber cube and be freestanding. Eventually with determination, creative thinking and a great deal of teamwork, a truly magnificent construction was created that wowed the Head of Maths at South Craven.
Everyone in the team was rewarded with their own rubber puzzle cube to take home, in addition to all the squash and biscuits they had already consumed!