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What can you say about the values of n that make $7^n + 3^n$ a multiple of 10? Are there other pairs of integers between 1 and 10 which have similar properties?
Can you find a relationship between the number of dots on the circle and the number of steps that will ensure that all points are hit?
A game that tests your understanding of remainders.
A game in which players take it in turns to choose a number. Can you block your opponent?
Here is a machine with four coloured lights. Can you develop a strategy to work out the rules controlling each light?
Find some triples of whole numbers a, b and c such that a^2 + b^2 + c^2 is a multiple of 4. Is it necessarily the case that a, b and c must all be even? If so, can you explain why?
Rectangles are considered different if they vary in size or have different locations. How many different rectangles can be drawn on a chessboard?
The number 12 = 2^2 × 3 has 6 factors. What is the smallest natural number with exactly 36 factors?
What is the remainder when 2^2002 is divided by 7? What happens with different powers of 2?
The clues for this Sudoku are the product of the numbers in adjacent squares.
The puzzle can be solved by finding the values of the unknown digits (all indicated by asterisks) in the squares of the $9\times9$ grid.
Data is sent in chunks of two different sizes - a yellow chunk has 5 characters and a blue chunk has 9 characters. A data slot of size 31 cannot be exactly filled with a combination of yellow and. . . .
Find a cuboid (with edges of integer values) that has a surface area of exactly 100 square units. Is there more than one? Can you find them all?
A three digit number abc is always divisible by 7 when 2a+3b+c is divisible by 7. Why?
This package contains a collection of problems from the NRICH website that could be suitable for students who have a good understanding of Factors and Multiples and who feel ready to take on some. . . .
How many zeros are there at the end of the number which is the product of first hundred positive integers?
Can you find any perfect numbers? Read this article to find out more...
Given the products of diagonally opposite cells - can you complete this Sudoku?
Make a set of numbers that use all the digits from 1 to 9, once and once only. Add them up. The result is divisible by 9. Add each of the digits in the new number. What is their sum? Now try some. . . .
A collection of resources to support work on Factors and Multiples at Secondary level.
A game for two people, or play online. Given a target number, say 23, and a range of numbers to choose from, say 1-4, players take it in turns to add to the running total to hit their target.
Here is a Sudoku with a difference! Use information about lowest common multiples to help you solve it.
What is the smallest number with exactly 14 divisors?
In how many ways can the number 1 000 000 be expressed as the product of three positive integers?
Choose any 3 digits and make a 6 digit number by repeating the 3 digits in the same order (e.g. 594594). Explain why whatever digits you choose the number will always be divisible by 7, 11 and 13.
Can you find a way to identify times tables after they have been shifted up?
Imagine we have four bags containing a large number of 1s, 4s, 7s and 10s. What numbers can we make?
Can you find what the last two digits of the number $4^{1999}$ are?
Do you know a quick way to check if a number is a multiple of two? How about three, four or six?
List any 3 numbers. It is always possible to find a subset of adjacent numbers that add up to a multiple of 3. Can you explain why and prove it?
For this challenge, you'll need to play Got It! Can you explain the strategy for winning this game with any target?
You are given the Lowest Common Multiples of sets of digits. Find the digits and then solve the Sudoku.
A student in a maths class was trying to get some information from her teacher. She was given some clues and then the teacher ended by saying, "Well, how old are they?"
Explain why the arithmetic sequence 1, 14, 27, 40, ... contains many terms of the form 222...2 where only the digit 2 appears.
Find some examples of pairs of numbers such that their sum is a factor of their product. eg. 4 + 12 = 16 and 4 × 12 = 48 and 16 is a factor of 48.
Consider numbers of the form un = 1! + 2! + 3! +...+n!. How many such numbers are perfect squares?
Follow this recipe for sieving numbers and see what interesting patterns emerge.
Substitution and Transposition all in one! How fiendish can these codes get?
Imagine we have four bags containing numbers from a sequence. What numbers can we make now?
The sum of the first 'n' natural numbers is a 3 digit number in which all the digits are the same. How many numbers have been summed?
Play the divisibility game to create numbers in which the first two digits make a number divisible by 2, the first three digits make a number divisible by 3...
How many integers between 1 and 1200 are NOT multiples of any of the numbers 2, 3 or 5?
The number 8888...88M9999...99 is divisible by 7 and it starts with the digit 8 repeated 50 times and ends with the digit 9 repeated 50 times. What is the value of the digit M?
Can you work out what size grid you need to read our secret message?
Each letter represents a different positive digit AHHAAH / JOKE = HA What are the values of each of the letters?
Twice a week I go swimming and swim the same number of lengths of the pool each time. As I swim, I count the lengths I've done so far, and make it into a fraction of the whole number of lengths. . . .
Have you seen this way of doing multiplication ?
Make a line of green and a line of yellow rods so that the lines differ in length by one (a white rod)
Ben passed a third of his counters to Jack, Jack passed a quarter of his counters to Emma and Emma passed a fifth of her counters to Ben. After this they all had the same number of counters.
Which pairs of cogs let the coloured tooth touch every tooth on the other cog? Which pairs do not let this happen? Why?