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The Enigma Project's James Grime has created a video code challenge. Watch it here!
Video showing how to use the Number Plumber
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Time for a little mathemagic! Choose any five cards from a pack and show four of them to your partner. How can they work out the fifth?
Alf and Tracy explain how the Kingsfield School maths department use common tasks to encourage all students to think mathematically about key areas in the curriculum.
These models have appeared around the Centre for Mathematical Sciences. Perhaps you would like to try to make some similar models of your own.
A video clip of Jo Boaler talking about Complex Instruction.
As part of Liverpool08 European Capital of Culture there were a huge number of events and displays. One of the art installations was called "Turning the Place Over". Can you find our how it works?
Can you picture how to order the cards to reproduce Charlie's card trick for yourself?
How is it possible to predict the card?
Watch our videos of multiplication methods that you may not have met before. Can you make sense of them?
This article introduces the idea of generic proof for younger children and illustrates how one example can offer a proof of a general result through unpacking its underlying structure.
Dotty Six is a simple dice game that you can adapt in many ways.
Choose a couple of the sequences. Try to picture how to make the next, and the next, and the next... Can you describe your reasoning?
Exploring the structure of a number square: how quickly can you put the number tiles in the right place on the grid?
Generate three random numbers to determine the side lengths of a triangle. What triangles can you draw?
Think of a two digit number, reverse the digits, and add the numbers together. Something special happens...
Caroline and James pick sets of five numbers. Charlie chooses three of them that add together to make a multiple of three. Can they stop him?
Use your addition and subtraction skills, combined with some strategic thinking, to beat your partner at this game.
Here is a chance to create some Celtic knots and explore the mathematics behind them.
Take a look at the video and try to find a sequence of moves that will take you back to zero.
Investigate how logic gates work in circuits.
Look carefully at the video of a tangle and explain what's happening.
Explore Alex's number plumber. What questions would you like to ask? Don't forget to keep visiting NRICH projects site for the latest developments and questions.
Watch the video to see how to fold a square of paper to create a flower. What fraction of the piece of paper is the small triangle?
Charlie has created a mapping. Can you figure out what it does? What questions does it prompt you to ask?
Many numbers can be expressed as the sum of two or more consecutive integers. For example, 15=7+8 and 10=1+2+3+4. Can you say which numbers can be expressed in this way?
A brief video looking at how you can sometimes use symmetry to distinguish knots. Can you use this idea to investigate the differences between the granny knot and the reef knot?