Wednesday, November 14, 2012

Teddy Town

Welcome to Teddy Town. In Teddy Town there are four houses of each colour and four teddies of each colour. The streets are very special. If you walk along a street from east to west all the houses are a different colour and the teddies living in the houses are a different colour too. The same is true if you walk in a north south direction. In other words, looking at a map grid, each row and column must have different coloured houses and different coloured teddies.

The JEM's (Junior Extension Maths) have been puzzling over Teddy Town for a while and today Camryn found a solution. What great perseverance she showed to solve this problem. Great work Camryn. Here is her solution.

What will Teddy Town look like if there are five teddies and houses of each colour and five purple teddies move into town and build five purple houses?

Thanks nrich for the great ideas and resources.