Question For 6 Year Old

[ukanonymous]

http://imgur.com/mN51t3f

What is the ?

I got A A level maths and can't get it

[Gavmacp]

?18 but to be quite honest I haven't got a clue. Thank you I will now be returning to this throughout this evening and possibly tomorrow!

[Gavmacp]

All I can see is that if you add the 4&3 and takeaway from 12 you get the 5 and then if you add the 3&9 and takeaway the 16 you get the 4 but lost after that.

[pixie374]

Add the 17 and 20 and take off the 12 and 16 for the 13

[sherrardk]

Just asked my maths whizz 10 year old and she said it doesn't make any sense although she is familiar with the layout.

[pixie374]

...that's wrong...

[Gavmacp]

Pixie 17 and 20... Etc I'm lost please explain as if I am a 6 year old and cannot even tie my shoe laces!

[Captain2]

Just run this past the daughter (19) who has always been excellent at Maths (takes after her father you know). She says, if it is for a 6 year old, are we looking too deeply? Her answer would be 4

Add circles 4 + 3 + 5 gives you box 12
Add circles 3 + 9 + 4 gives you box 16
So just add
Circles 5 + 4 + ? to give you box 13

Any sense?

[bhg481]

10/10 for your daughter, captain2

[Gavmacp]

Captain, THANK YOU!

[fiction-factory]

Is it just 4?
Adding the values in the corner of each triangle gives the number in the middle

[fiction-factory]

Ah- that's what Captain has said- I spent too long checking for other ways

[fiction-factory]

Reminds me of this one which it is claimed, pre-school children are more likely to get right than adults

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gCsTxJJyl3s

[ukanonymous]

Answer was 4... apparently well done to your daughter captain ;)