Exercise of the Week #13
A little maths exercise worthy of the heatwave.
Last Week’s Answers
In this sequence question, we mustn’t rule anything out as a red herring or distractor: part of the pattern that is only included to draw your attention from what’s actually happening.
In this puzzle, everything is important!
Between each pattern, we can see that the star is changing. If there is a shape which appears throughout the sequence, look to see whether it is rotating, reflecting, growing/shrinking or changing. In this sequence, the star is gaining a point each time.
The spiral is also consistent - as above, we need to think about how. In this sequence, the spiral is flipping each time.
There’s also something going on with these dots. It’s not enough to say that there’s one extra dot; that’s too surface level. Instead, notice that the new dot remains, and each time, another dot is added. Another way to think about this is that the black dot moves and is replaced by a grey dot each time.
Three things to spot! How many did you find?
