March 2000, All Stages

Problems

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Next Domino

Stage: 1 Challenge Level: Challenge Level:1

Which comes next in each pattern of dominoes?

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Same Shapes

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

How can these shapes be cut in half to make two shapes the same shape and size? Can you find more than one way to do it?

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Dicey

Stage: 2 Challenge Level: Challenge Level:1

A game has a special dice with a colour spot on each face. These three pictures show different views of the same dice. What colour is opposite blue?

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It Figures

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

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?

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Green Cube, Yellow Cube

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

How can you paint the faces of these eight cubes so they can be put together to make a 2 x 2 cube that is green all over AND a 2 x 2 cube that is yellow all over?

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Map Folding

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

Take a rectangle of paper and fold it in half, and half again, to make four smaller rectangles. How many different ways can you fold it up?

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World of Tan - Junk

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

Can you fit the tangram pieces into the outline of this junk?

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Base Puzzle

Stage: 3 Challenge Level: Challenge Level:1

This investigation is about happy numbers in the World of the Octopus where all numbers are written in base 8 .Octi the octopus counts.

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Clock Squares

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

Square numbers can be represented on the seven-clock (representing these numbers modulo 7). This works like the days of the week.

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Happy Octopus

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

This investigation is about happy numbers in the World of the Octopus where all numbers are written in base 8 ... Find all the fixed points and cycles for the happy number sequences in base 8.

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Soma - So Good

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

Can you mentally fit the 7 SOMA pieces together to make a cube? Can you do it in more than one way?

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First Forward Into Logo 10

Stage: 3, 4 and 5 Challenge Level: Challenge Level:1

What happens when a procedure calls itself?

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Cushion Ball

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

The shortest path between any two points on a snooker table is the straight line between them but what if the ball must bounce off one wall, or 2 walls, or 3 walls?

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Major Trapezium

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

A small circle in a square in a big circle in a trapezium. Using the measurements and clue given, find the area of the trapezium.

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Pentagon

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

Find the vertices of a pentagon given the midpoints of its sides.

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Napkin

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

A napkin is folded so that a corner coincides with the midpoint of an opposite edge . Investigate the three triangles formed .

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Route to Root

Stage: 5 Challenge Level: Challenge Level:1

A sequence of numbers x1, x2, x3, ... starts with x1 = 2, and, if you know any term xn, you can find the next term xn+1 using the formula: xn+1 = (xn + 3/xn)/2 . Calculate the first six terms of this. . . .

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