State of Motion

Hawaii moves 7.5 cm closer to Alaska every year.

Light Speed

It takes 8 minutes and 19 seconds for light to travel from the Sun to Earth.

Prediction

If you ask a person to give you any number less than 4 and then give you the name of any vegetable, 76% of the people asked will say,

"3, carrot".

Try it.

In Jamaica, it's 3.14

In Barbados, it's 22/7

In Cuba, it's 3

These are the pi-rates of the Caribbean.

Tricky Business

If you meet a wizard and he gives you these two choices:

1) you can have £1 on the 1st day, £2 on the 2nd day, £3 on the 3rd day etc (an extra £1 each day) until day 30

or

2) you can have 1p on the 1st day, 2p on the 2nd day, 4p on the 3rd day, 8p on the 4th day etc (the money doubles each day) until day 30

be careful which one you choose.

With choice (1) you end up with £465.

With choice (2) you end up with over 10 million pounds!

The 4 Colour Theorem

Any map can be coloured with only 4 colours so that no two regions that touch are the same colour.

How do you calculate the circumference of a sheep?

Use shepherd's pi.

Goal!

A standard football is made up of pentagons and hexagons.

There are 12 pentagons and 20 hexagons.

Geometry

A 19-sided shape is called an enneadecagon.