### Polydron

This activity investigates how you might make squares and pentominoes from Polydron.

If you had 36 cubes, what different cuboids could you make?

### Cereal Packets

How can you put five cereal packets together to make different shapes if you must put them face-to-face?

# More and More Buckets

##### Stage: 2 Challenge Level:

It can be used as a follow-on from  Buckets of Thinking..

In this challenge, buckets come in five different sizes: the capacity of a bucket is $2$ litres, $3$ litres, $4$ litres, $5$ litres or $6$ litres. You can choose any number of buckets from two to six, including two and including six. Here are some pictures of buckets. The colours do not matter - they are just to make them look nice!

Suppose we choose to use four buckets which each hold $5$ litres, like this:-

We're going to pour water into the buckets, sticking to these rules:

RULE $1$ :- All the buckets must have a different number of litres of water.
RULE $2$ :- Every bucket must contain some water.
RULE $3$ :- Only whole numbers of litres may be used (so no halves, thirds etc.).

So, I'll work this one with you:

In the four buckets you could have:

$1, 2, 3, 4$ litres
or $2, 3, 4, 5$ litres
or $1, 3, 4, 5$ litres
or $1, 2, 3, 5$ litres
or $1, 2, 4, 5$ litres

This looks like all the possibilities obeying the three rules above.
You might like to check that you agree there aren't any other combinations.
Can you explain how you know we've got them all?