January 2025 Math Challenge winners

Grade one - Helena

Grade Two - Linden

Grade Three- Keira

Grade Four - Thomas

Grade Five - Jace

Grade Six - Joe

February 2025 Math Challenge - Feel the beat of you heart

February is the month of Valentines and the Heart!

Did you know your pulse throbs every time your heart beats? Find your pulse near your wrist or in your neck. Count the number of times your heart beats in 15 seconds.

Kindergarten

 Did you know that an octopus has three hearts? How many hearts would three octopus have?

Grade 1

 A blue whale has 5 heart beats a minute. A hibernating groundhog has 8 heart beats per minute. A tortoise has 20 beats per minute. Which animal has the most beats per minute? How many beats per minute are in total?

Grade 2 

If your heart beats 45 times a minute how many beats will there be in three minutes?

An elephant has about 28 heartbeats per minute and a blue whale has about 6 heart beats per minute. How many more beats per minute does the elephant have?

Grade 3

A cow's heart has 48 beats per minute. An elephant has 25 beats per minute. Which animal will have 375 beats in 15 minutes?

Grade 4

Count your pulse. How many beats do you count per minute?

Work out how many times your heart beats in:

One hour, a day and a year.

Grade 5

 Count your pulse. How many beats do you count per minute?

Work out how many times your heart beats in

One hour, a day and a year.

BONUS

Count your pulse after 50 jumping jacks. How beats per minute now?

How many more beats would you have in a day at this heart rate?

Grade 6

The average heart rate of a shrew is 800 beats per minute, while an elephant has a heart rate of 25 beats per minute. If 1 billion heartbeats is a natural life span for each animal, on average, how many more years do elephants live than shrews?

(Assuming each year is 365 days and the answer should be rounded to the nearest whole number.)

(The pygmy shrew, which weighs in at less than an ounce, has the fastest heartbeat of any mammal at 1,200 beats per minute, according to the National Wildlife Federation.)