MATH Stumpers

Flex your math muscles with these fun brainteasers! Record your work and answers on our answer sheet.

AVA'S ACORNS

On her walk through the woods, Ava stopped at 4 oak trees to gather acorns. She found 5 acorns at the first tree, 10 at the second, and 4 at both the third and fourth trees. She told her friend, “The mean number of acorns I found per tree is 4!”

What math mistake did Ava make? How would you fix it?

ALIEN MESSAGE

You’ve been hired to decode a message from space! This alien language uses numbers instead of letters. But luckily for you, each number represents a letter in the English alphabet:
1 = A, 2 = B, and so on.

What does the message say?