Maths Eyes
Category - Maths
Maths is all around us! The purpose of the Maths Eyes programme is to open people’s eyes to the maths potential of our surroundings. While learning from home, Rang a Sé put on their Maths Eyes. Below are some of the pictures they took and the maths questions they composed about them.
Órlaith

- How many full bricks are there?
- Around what fraction of the picture is red?
- Around what fraction of the picture is grey?
- If you take the grey out of the picture, what fraction is left?
- If you double the fraction that is red, what fraction will you have?
Sophie

- How many white keys are there?
- How much more buttons are there than white keys?
- How many keys and buttons are there altogether?
- Name 3 shapes that are in the picture?
- If you broke all of your black keys and went to buy new ones that cost €1.05 per key, how much money did you spend?
Johnnie
- What shape is the number plate? Can you see any other shapes in the picture?
- What is the second number X by the second last number plus the third last number divided by 2?
- What is the third number divided by the third last number, multiplied by the second number?
- Roughly what fraction of the number plate is blue?
- What will you get from adding all the numbers together and dividing the total number by 6?

Fiach

- How many more colours are there than rubbers?
- If you add the amount of pencils with the amount of centimetres on the ruler, what answer would you get?
- What shapes can you see in this picture?
- If you were to take a colour and a pencil from the picture, how many items would there be?
- You can see the ruler beside the yellow marker. What fraction of the yellow colour does the ruler take up?
Phoenix

- What is the largest shape in the photo?
- What is the ratio of big spoons to small spoons?
- If you add 10 big spoons and divide by the amount of small spoons, what is your answer?
- Around what fraction of the picture is white?
- If I bought a set of spoons, including 15 big spoons and 10 small spoons and the spoons in the picture are all I have left, how many of each spoon am I missing?
Eshaal

- What shapes do you see in the photo?
- What percentage of the photo is white?
- If one square in the fence equals to 360 degrees, what is the length of one angle in the square? What would two squares equal?
- If 2 squares equal 48., what would the area of six squares be?
- If one fence covers 5m of garden, how many fences would I need to cover 20m?
Mícheál

- What irregular 2D shape can you make out of the mountains in the background?
- How many fields can you see and what shape are they?
- The area of the track I’m standing on his , and the width is 2m, what is the length of the path?
- Roughly what fraction of the photograph is green?
Michaela

- How many rectangles are in the photo?
- Roughly what fraction of the photo is white?
- What colours are in the photo?
- Approximately what fraction of the photo is red?
- If each rectangle is 8cm long and the width is half this, what is the perimeter of each rectangle?