The First Meeting of the Math Problem Solving Club

Yesterday, during our math tutorial, I mentioned to the students that we should start a Math Problem Solving Club. I expected to be greeted with groans, but instead, they actually seemed to like the idea! So we decided to meet during the first half of lunch on Day 6 to solve some problems.

Today was our first meeting. We had the same six people in attendance as we had at the math tutorial yesterday. There were three people from Mrs. Keeping-Penney's class, and 3 from our class. We worked out 2 problems that we all agreed were quite simple and are looking forward to next time when I'll throw some harder questions at them.

For those who are interested, here are the problems we solved:

In the first year of production a play sells 1572 tickets, in its second year it sells 1753 tickets, in its third year it sells 152 less than in its second year. How many tickets are sold in 3 years?