Open-ended tasks

Karolina Kucharska
1. Your mum gave you 15 zlotys. How many things can you buy? Look at the price list below.

PRICE LIST
PENCIL CASE……………………………………………………….10
NOTEBOOK………………………………………………………….2
PEN………………………………………………………………………1
PENCIL………………………………………………………………….2
RUBBER…………………………………………………………………1
SCISSORS………………………………………………………………5
RULER……………………………………………………………………4

2. Uncle John found a bag full of ropes. There are three different lengths of them: 1m, 3m and 5m.
How different lines can I measure with using 4 ropes?

3. Kate is very forgetful and she forgot her password to the bank card. She only remembers that:
a. The code has 4 numbers.
b. The first number is smaller than the second.
c. The third number is twice as big as the first.
d. The forth is between 0-6.

What might be the password to her bank card?

4. How many different squares and rectangles will you draw to fill the whole area?
5. You have numbers from 1 to 10. How can you receive from them 20? You can use as many
numbers as it is needed, but each only once. You can use addition, multiplying, division,
subtraction.