this month, All Stages

May 2008

 

Problems

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Snap

Stage:1 Challenge Level:Challenge Level:1

Try this version of Snap with a friend - do you know the order of the days of the week?

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Stop the Clock

Stage:1 Challenge Level:Challenge Level:3Challenge Level:3Challenge Level:3

This is a game for two players. Can you find out how to be the first to get to 12 o'clock?

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At the Pumps

Stage:2 Challenge Level:Challenge Level:1

How will you find out how much a tank of petrol costs?

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Lengthy Journeys

Stage:2 Challenge Level:Challenge Level:1

Investigate the different distances of these car journeys and find out how long they take.

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Weighing Fruit

Stage:2 Challenge Level:Challenge Level:1

Can you use this information to estimate how much the different fruit selections weigh in kilos and pounds?

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Oh! Harry!

Stage:2 Challenge Level:Challenge Level:2Challenge Level:2

A group of children are using measuring cylinders but they lose the labels. Can you help relabel them?

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A Day with Grandpa

Stage:2 Challenge Level:Challenge Level:3Challenge Level:3Challenge Level:3

Grandpa was measuring a rug using yards, feet and inches. Can you help William to work out its area?

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Zin Obelisk

Stage:3 Challenge Level:Challenge Level:2Challenge Level:2

In the ancient city of Atlantis a solid rectangular object called a Zin was built in honour of the goddess Tina. Your task is to determine on which day of the week the obelisk was completed.

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All in a Jumble

Stage:3 Challenge Level:Challenge Level:2Challenge Level:2

My measurements have got all jumbled up! Swap them around and see if you can find a combination where every measurement is valid.

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Thousands and Millions

Stage:3 Challenge Level:Challenge Level:2Challenge Level:2

Here's a chance to work with large numbers...

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An Average Average Speed

Stage:4 Challenge Level:Challenge Level:1

My average speed for a journey was 50 mph, my return average speed of 70 mph. Why wasn't my average speed for the round trip 60mph ?

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Round and Round a Circle

Stage:4 Challenge Level:Challenge Level:1

Can you explain what is happening and account for the values being displayed?

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Jumping Gerbils

Stage:4 Challenge Level:Challenge Level:2Challenge Level:2

A conveyor belt, with tins placed at regular intervals, is moving at a steady rate towards a labelling machine. A gerbil starts from the beginning of the belt and jumps from tin to tin.

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Trigonometric Protractor

Stage:4 Challenge Level:Challenge Level:2Challenge Level:2

An environment that simulates a protractor carrying a right- angled triangle of unit hypotenuse.

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Swimmers

Stage:4 Challenge Level:Challenge Level:3Challenge Level:3Challenge Level:3

Swimmers in opposite directions cross at 20m and at 30m from each end of a swimming pool. How long is the pool ?

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Dam Busters 1

Stage:5 Challenge Level:Challenge Level:1

At what positions and speeds can the bomb be dropped to destroy the dam?

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Universal Time, Mass, Length

Stage:5 Short Challenge Level:Challenge Level:1

Can you work out the natural time scale for the universe?

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Cannon Balls

Stage:5 Short Challenge Level:Challenge Level:1

How high will a ball taking a million seconds to fall travel?

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Dam Busters 2

Stage:5 Challenge Level:Challenge Level:2Challenge Level:2

Can you work out which of the equations models a bouncing bomb? Will you be able to hit the target?

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Escape from Planet Earth

Stage:5 Challenge Level:Challenge Level:2Challenge Level:2

How fast would you have to throw a ball upwards so that it would never land?

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Earth Orbit

Stage:5 Challenge Level:Challenge Level:3Challenge Level:3Challenge Level:3

Follow in the steps of Newton and find the path that the earth follows around the sun.