What is so special about the following magic square?
First determine the missing numbers in the magic square below. Remember that each row, column, and diagonal must add up to the
same number, called the magic number. What is the magic number? 162
| 44 | 61 | 57 |
| 67 | 54 | 41 |
| 51 | 47 | 64 |
Now, what is so special about this magic square? ________________________________________________________
The answer is: If you spell out the words, and count the letters, you will form another magic square!
Now complete the task:
| forty-four | sixty-one | fifty-seven |
| sixty-seven | fifty-four | forty-one |
| fifty-one | forty-seven | sixty-four |
And finally, ...
| 9 | 8 | 10 |
| 10 | 9 | 8 |
| 8 | 10 | 9 |
And the magic number is 27.