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Why did you enter the Mathematics profession?

Mr Singh: “I love to communicate and Mr Cheung:
Mathematics is a universal language that “Originally I Mr Lee: “Because I
connects people. Mr. Singh wants to connect wanted to be like Mathematics.”
with people from all cultures and backgrounds.” an actuary…”

Mr Bibby: “It was the only subject I was Ms Wong: “I like to do Mathematics.
good at. (joking) Mathematics may not teach Mathematics classes teach you how to
us how to add love or subtract hate but it choose the best approach to a situation, think
gives us every reason to believe that there is a critically, analyse information and make
solution to every problem.” informed decisions”.

Mind traps
1. What word from group B belongs to group A and why?
A) FRONT, SKI, MELON, FALL
B) ROAD, TIRE, TOWER, CLIFF
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2. Something extraordinarily unusual happened on the 6 of May, 1978 at 12:34 p.m.
What was it?
3. When asked how old she was, Suzie replied, “In two years I will be twice as old as I
was five years ago.” How old is she?
4. It takes Sandy three hours to paint a fence, and it takes Claude six hours to complete
the same job. How long would it take both of them working together at their normal
paces to complete the same job?
5. A tree doubled in height each year until it reached its maximum height over the course
of ten years. How many years did it take for the tree to reach half its maximum height?

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