November puzzle answers

Lots of perfect scores in November Math Mania

Ms. Math Mania's puzzles for November were much more to your liking. After no one got the October puzzles correct, there were 22 kids who answered all November's Sudoku brainteasers correctly.

We predicted the November questions would be easier than October. And that turned out to be true.

Maybe it's because a lot of you have been doing Sudoku puzzles, which appear in lots of places these days.

Ms. Math Mania is Amy Ruzicka, a math teacher at St. Gabriel's School in south St. Louis.

Because there were so many correct answers, Young Saint Louis.com is going to increase the number of Borders book certificates awarded. Usually, we give either three or four $10 certificates.

But, with 22 entries with all the answers correct, YSL.com will award five Borders certificates. To pick the certificate winners, we put all correct entries into a bunch and randomly picked five.

Those kids who got all the Sudoku puzzles correct were:

Emma Ehll-Welpley, Albert Faust, Richard Hollacher, Jisong Kahng, Alma Kordic, Chandler Kropp, Christopher Lamb, Stephanie Langendoerffer, Joshua Lee, Addison Leong, Nichole McMullin, Anirt Michelson, Danielle Sikora, Chris Sleckman, Samuel Stern, Mike Sperkoush, Shun Tamatsu, Madeline Tippe, Liz Xing, Ryan Wahidi, Aryan Yadama and Noah Youkilis.

The winners of the Borders certificate drawing were:

Emma Ehll-Welpley, Alma Kordic, Christopher Lamb, Chris Sleckman and Ryan Wahidi.

If you'd like to enter the December Math Mania competition, click here. This is another new variety of fun math puzzles for your enjoyment.

Answers to the November
Math Mania Challenge