Maths Club

Some excellent achievements at Maths Club this week!  Chloe achieved her blue target card for answering over 50% of her times table grid correctly in less than 4 minutes.  Dylan and Henry are both making terrific progress with their times tables and Harry was mathematican of the week for solving the problem below in the fewest moves.

There are two green frogs and two brown toads:

 

A frog or toad can jump over one other creature onto an empty lilypad or it can slide onto an empty lilypad which is immediately next to it.  Only one creature, at a time, is allowed on each lilypad.

Now, the idea is for the frogs and toads to change places.  So, the frogs will end up on the side where the toads started and the toads will end up where the frogs began.

The challenge is to do this in as few slides and jumps as possible. (We started by using people and then used a colour code in our books).

What's the fewest moves you can complete the challenge in?