Famous Birthdays

A Maths Starter of The Day

When Was Will Born?

dd

The day is a two digit prime number. The two digits are consecutive numbers.

 m

The number of days in the month is a multiple of the number of letters in the month's name.

 yyyy

The year was a leap year which began on a Saturday.
It is 222225 + 2

How old would he be if he was alive today?

 

clue

A prime numbers has two and only two factors.

Consecutive numbers are next to each other in the sequence of counting numbers.

 clue:

Thirty days hath September,
April June and November.
All the rest have thirty-one
Excepting February alone,
Which has twenty-eight days clear,
But twenty-nine each Leap Year..

 clue

The number 22222 is given in base 5. It means:

2 x 625 +
2 x 125 +
2 x 25  +  
2 x 5   +   
2 x 1        

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  • EK, Dorset
  • Thursday, July 12, 2007
  • "Wonderful! I have top set year 5 and they found it fun. Interesting to see how much they knew about Shakespeare too!"
  • Mr Heeley's y7, Rawthorpe High, Huddersfield
  • Monday, July 14, 2008
  • "Gosh, he would be even older than Mr Heeley!
    'So shaken as we are, so wan with care, for find we a time for frightened peace to pant, and breathe short-winded accents of new broils, to be echoed in lands afar remote' Opening line to Henry IV part 1.
    See, Maths teachers can be quite literate too!!!

    Have a lovely summer Transum xx"
  • Carole, 6A Cragieburn PS Australia
  • Wednesday, July 14, 2010
  • "My Grade 6 Class really enjoyed working out this problem. We worked out that Will would be 448 years old if he was still alive today! Mrs Pyne and 6A."

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Answers

William Shakespeare was born in Stratford-upon-Avon in Warwickshire and was baptised on 26 April 1564. It is generally assumed that he was born on:

23 - 4 - 1564

If he was still alive today he would be 446 years old this year.