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Find the product of the numbers on the routes from A to B. Which route has the smallest product? Which the largest?
This problem is based on a code using two different prime numbers less than 10. You'll need to multiply them together and shift the alphabet forwards by the result. Can you decipher the code?
Zumf makes spectacles for the residents of the planet Zargon, who have either 3 eyes or 4 eyes. How many lenses will Zumf need to make all the different orders for 9 families?
Can you work out how many flowers there will be on the Amazing Splitting Plant after it has been growing for six weeks?
This magic square has operations written in it, to make it into a maze. Start wherever you like, go through every cell and go out a total of 15!
Can you fill in this table square? The numbers 2 -12 were used to generate it with just one number used twice.
There are 44 people coming to a dinner party. There are 15 square tables that seat 4 people. Find a way to seat the 44 people using all 15 tables, with no empty places.
Annie and Ben are playing a game with a calculator. What was Annie's secret number?
Katie had a pack of 20 cards numbered from 1 to 20. She arranged the cards into 6 unequal piles where each pile added to the same total. What was the total and how could this be done?
Can you arrange 5 different digits (from 0 - 9) in the cross in the way described?
Claire thinks she has the most sports cards in her album. "I have 12 pages with 2 cards on each page", says Claire. Ross counts his cards. "No! I have 3 cards on each of my pages and there are. . . .
At the beginning of May Tom put his tomato plant outside. On the same day he sowed a bean in another pot. When will the two be the same height?
What do you notice about the date 03.06.09? Or 08.01.09? This challenge invites you to investigate some interesting dates yourself.
Can you find which shapes you need to put into the grid to make the totals at the end of each row and the bottom of each column?
Using the statements, can you work out how many of each type of rabbit there are in these pens?
Twizzle, a female giraffe, needs transporting to another zoo. Which route will give the fastest journey?
This problem is based on the story of the Pied Piper of Hamelin. Investigate the different numbers of people and rats there could have been if you know how many legs there are altogether!
Put operations signs between the numbers 3 4 5 6 to make the highest possible number and lowest possible number.
Use your logical-thinking skills to deduce how much Dan's crisps and ice-cream cost altogether.
Can you put the numbers 1 to 8 into the circles so that the four calculations are correct?
There were 22 legs creeping across the web. How many flies? How many spiders?
There were chews for 2p, mini eggs for 3p, Chocko bars for 5p and lollypops for 7p in the sweet shop. What could each of the children buy with their money?
Suppose we allow ourselves to use three numbers less than 10 and multiply them together. How many different products can you find? How do you know you've got them all?
These eleven shapes each stand for a different number. Can you use the multiplication sums to work out what they are?
A group of children are using measuring cylinders but they lose the labels. Can you help relabel them?
Cherri, Saxon, Mel and Paul are friends. They are all different ages. Can you find out the age of each friend using the information?
Find at least one way to put in some operation signs (+ - x ÷) to make these digits come to 100.
Go through the maze, collecting and losing your money as you go. Which route gives you the highest return? And the lowest?
Can you each work out the number on your card? What do you notice? How could you sort the cards?
Find the next number in this pattern: 3, 7, 19, 55 ...
On the planet Vuv there are two sorts of creatures. The Zios have 3 legs and the Zepts have 7 legs. The great planetary explorer Nico counted 52 legs. How many Zios and how many Zepts were there?
Use the information to work out how many gifts there are in each pile.
Use the information about Sally and her brother to find out how many children there are in the Brown family.
This multiplication uses each of the digits 0 - 9 once and once only. Using the information given, can you replace the stars in the calculation with figures?
Where can you draw a line on a clock face so that the numbers on both sides have the same total?
If the numbers 5, 7 and 4 go into this function machine, what numbers will come out?
This group activity will encourage you to share calculation strategies and to think about which strategy might be the most efficient.
Find another number that is one short of a square number and when you double it and add 1, the result is also a square number.
In a Magic Square all the rows, columns and diagonals add to the 'Magic Constant'. How would you change the magic constant of this square?
Can you work out the arrangement of the digits in the square so that the given products are correct? The numbers 1 - 9 may be used once and once only.
Here are the prices for 1st and 2nd class mail within the UK. You have an unlimited number of each of these stamps. Which stamps would you need to post a parcel weighing 825g?
The Scot, John Napier, invented these strips about 400 years ago to help calculate multiplication and division. Can you work out how to use Napier's bones to find the answer to these multiplications?
Tom and Ben visited Numberland. Use the maps to work out the number of points each of their routes scores.
Can you replace the letters with numbers? Is there only one solution in each case?
A game for 2 people. Use your skills of addition, subtraction, multiplication and division to blast the asteroids.
What is happening at each box in these machines?
Put a number at the top of the machine and collect a number at the bottom. What do you get? Which numbers get back to themselves?
We can arrange dots in a similar way to the 5 on a dice and they usually sit quite well into a rectangular shape. How many altogether in this 3 by 5? What happens for other sizes?
These sixteen children are standing in four lines of four, one behind the other. They are each holding a card with a number on it. Can you work out the missing numbers?
Can you score 100 by throwing rings on this board? Is there more than way to do it?