Mathematicians Solve Tricky Problem

Super Mathematicians Solution Published on NRich

Mrs Jones’s maths group have had their solution to a very tricky problem published on the Nrich website. Nrich is packed with activities which encourage children to think mathematically by setting all sorts of engaging and challenging maths problems. Mrs Jones group regularly solve problems and send in solutions and this time their solution was published. The problem they solved is below:-

TWO + TWO = FOUR

Each of the different letters stands for a different number.
How many solutions can you find to this word-arithmetic challenge?
How can you be sure you found them all?

Why not give the old grey matter a work out and see how many solutions you can come up with and then check against the experts …….. The solution found by Charlie, Constance, Gabriel, Luca S, Luca Sze, Matilda, Rachel, Rama, Ronan, Ruby, Sanjay and Stephanie can be accessed by clicking this link https://nrich.maths.org/781/solution Well done!