Mathematics+Activity

We solved some math problems with Mr.Stevenson and friends.

 I will show two question to you.

 1.folding a paper question...

 A paper is in your hand. Thickness of paper is 1.

 If you fold one time, Thickness is 2 now.

 If you fold two times, Thickness is 3 now.

 Like this. If you fold 50 times, what is thickness of paper?

 The answer is...

 If you fold A times, the thickness of paper is. So if you fold 50 times, the thickness will be.

 is about 1,125,899,906,842,624(!)

 2.Chess board question...

 There was a kingdom. Suddenly gangs broke into the kingdom and killed many people and stole things.

 So king said to save his kingdom,

 "If someone kills the gang, I will give a prize."

 Finally a man kill all gangs and the king decided to give a prize to him. But the man should choose the prize.

 1.$10,000,000

<span style="background-color: #c0c0c0; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> 2.Put 1 cent, 2 cents, 4 cents... on the chess board(64 squares)

<span style="background-color: #c0c0c0; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> The answer is...

<span style="background-color: #c0c0c0; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> The money increases regularly. There are 64 squares on the chess board so...

<span style="background-color: #c0c0c0; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> 2x2x2x...=

<span style="background-color: #c0c0c0; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> =$18446744073709552

<span style="background-color: #c0c0c0; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> So the man should choose 2.