This document provides instructions for students to complete mathematics challenges and assignments over the summer break, including choosing one of four puzzles to solve, creating a poster on a mathematics topic of their choosing, keeping track of a shopping bill total in their head versus the actual total, researching and providing an example for the four color theorem, and selecting from various poster topics focusing on numbers, shapes, time, money, and prime numbers.

1. Puzzles
Complete one of the four Nrich
puzzles on Page 2.
Mathematics Posters.
Choose a topic from page 3 to
complete a poster on
Shopping Challenge.
Help out with the weekly shop,
and try to keep a running total of
the cost in your head. Can you
get close to the actual price?
Keep a record of your results.
Four Colour Challenge.
Research the four colour
theorem and produce an
example. (see Page 4)
Summer Maths
Challenges

3. Poster Topics.
oWhat's your favourite number and why?
oMaths from your window.
oConsider number, time and shapes and what do they mean.
oMaths on holiday
oConsider money, shapes and time.
oIs 1 a prime number?