Face painting!
The holiday
season has just begun in Pegness and everyone is getting ready for a busy
holiday. Ingrid works as a children’s
face painter during the summer and already has some customers at her stall on the
pier, “Wow, customers already! I’m
normally a bit rusty after a break so I won’t be able to paint many face to
start with.” Ingrid is normally slow to
start painting but each day of the season she gets quicker with more
practice. She also gets more customers
each day. On the first day she painted
four children’s faces, on the second day she painted six faces and on the third
she painted nine faces. Yesterday, the
fourth day of the season, she painted thirteen faces. She just got quicker and quicker. So quick in fact that people from all around
stopped to watch her at work as she painted faces faster than a bee’s
wings! Pegness was a popular place and
that was partly down to Ingrid herself and her amazing painting powers.
Problem:
If Ingrid keeps getting quicker, how many faces will she have painted by
the eleventh day of the summer season.
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11
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Faces
painted
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Hint: Use the chart to record the
information from the story. How many
more faces does she paint on each day?
Can you see a pattern in how the numbers increase?
Solutions are to be completed by Tuesday 28th March.
Please post them into the Maths Challenge Box in the picture book
library.
