Maths Puzzles – Online Course

Who is the course for?

The course is designed for anyone who enjoys popular science, recreational maths and solving maths puzzles and crosswords. It will be especially useful for parents or teachers looking to inspire a love of math and do fun math activities with young people.

What topics will you cover?

Encoding maths puzzles, secret codes and symbologies

Solving and creating cryptarithms – puzzles where numbers in a mathematical expressions are encoded

Genres of cryptarithm including, ancient Hindu problems and alphametics

Special and unique cryptarithms, including prime numbers, logarithms, square roots and powers

Symbologies from ancient times to modern bar codes

The language of computers including, binary, ternary and gray codes

Decrypting ancient Egyptian number systems, Roman and Greek numerals

Barcode puzzles and how to solve them

Different types of operator puzzles including unary, binary and ternary

Modern operators including, logic operators, text operators and operators in Excel

What will you achieve?

By the end of the course, you‘ll be able to…

Solve different kinds of cryptarithms and decipher symbologies

Synthesise the knowledge gained from all the different steps into a coherent view of the art of information concealment

Demonstrate puzzle solving skills

Improve problem solving skills and out-of-the-box thinking

Collaborate with other learners to solve problems

Apply problem solving strategies in new situations