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These are really fun puzzles and they help children to increase their calculator
skills. When you have all numbers correctly entered into your calculator,
turn it around and if everything went ok you should be able to
read the answer to the question in purple. Some of the
letters look a bit different, but you will be
able to make sense of it.
1= i, 2=z, 3=E, 4=h, 5=s, 6=g, 7=L, 8=B, 9=G, 0=o
FLOOR=round off to whole integer
| 1. What were Albert Einstein's first words? Answer | ||
| step 1: Enter step 2: minus step 3: times step 4: minus step 5: divide by = |
The first five
counting numbers. 12,186 The number of seasons in a year. Thirty-five and four-tenths. (500x20) Turn your calculator. |
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| 2. What do you get if brown paint is mixed with white paint? Answer | ||
| step 1: Enter step 2: add step 3: divide by step 4: add step 5: times = |
The
missing number, 3, 36, 432, ? 12816 (16000/8000) 34 and five-tenths. (16 x 0.25) Turn your calculator. |
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| 3. What is a British Police Officer also called? Answer | ||
| step 1: Enter step 2: minus step 3: add step 4: times step 5: times = |
The
missing number, 30, 32, 36, 42, ..? Elf 0.851 The degrees Celsius to boil water. (400/50) Turn your calculator. |
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| 4. Something to do, if you've got some free time. Answer | ||
| step 1: Enter step 2: times step 3: add step 4: times step 5: add step 6: times = |
Days in a
fortnight. The number of cents in a dime. 8.505 Two (500 x 26) The number of years in four centuries. Turn your calculator |
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| 5. The 7 Dwarves' favourite song... Answer | ||
| step 1: Enter step 2: times step 3: add step 4: divide by = |
The
number of blackbirds baked in a pie. 69 0.1656 FLOOR(63.25^2) Turn your calculator |
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| 6. Dog directions... Answer | ||
| step 1: Enter step 2: times step 3: minus step 4: times = |
The
number of different chemicals in DNA. D 533.2 V Turn your calculator. |
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| 7. Protection spectacles. Answer | ||
| step 1: Enter step 2: times step 3: add = |
The reverse of
the number that spells "ehh". 5^6 SQRT(2579236) Turn your calculator. |
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| 8. What often lounges in big hotels? Answer | ||
| step 1: Enter step 2: add step 3: minus step 4: times step 5: add = |
-8 348^2 The chromosomes in a human cell x 8. 2T XL Turn your calculator. |
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| 9. Extremely evil or cruel. Answer | ||
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(DLIV x VIII) 1.5 The number of faces on Mount Rushmore. (D x IX x M) Turn your calculator. |
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| 10. Viscous liquid under attack. Answer | ||
| step 1: Enter step 2: times step 3: add step 4: minus = |
The number in
a baker's dozen plus two. Two times twice an eighth of a tenth of a Grand. 0.77345 For tea Turn your calculator. |
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| 11. I hope you can read all this... Answer | ||
| step 1: Enter step 2: add step 3: times step 4: times step 5: add step 6: times = |
The
number of trombones in the Music Man. 3.0925 IV A score 750 thousand The number of events in a pentathlon. Turn your calculator. |
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| 12. Parts of a fish. Answer | ||
| step 1: Enter step 2: add step 3: times step 4: add = |
The
missing number, 33, 41, 50, 60, ?, 83. 1.1450 CCM 0.514 Turn your calculator. |
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| 13. A man's wife is... Answer | ||
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1: Enter step 2: add step 3: minus step 4: divide by step 5: add = |
3^3 0.028 (LX - L) The decimal equivalent of binary 10. (MC x V) Turn your calculator. |
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| 14. In need of gas... Answer | ||
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1: Enter step 2: times step 3: add = |
Sqrt(sqrt(sqrt(6561))) 236.5851 0.05 x 6 Turn your calculator. |
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| 15. What is the longest word you can find on a turned calculator... | ||
| Contrived words are allowed too found so far: |
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If you know other puzzles one can do with a calculator, please let me know.
Authors: Thomas Camilli, Hagar Hagarson, and Mickey Moten; modified by Gijsbert
van Uden.
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