Exploring and noticing

  • The perforated cube
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    The Perforated Cube

    Age
    14 to 16
    Challenge level
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    A cube is made from smaller cubes, 5 by 5 by 5, then some of those cubes are removed. Can you make the specified shapes, and what is the most and least number of cubes required ?

  • Electric Kettle
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    Electric Kettle

    Age
    14 to 16
    Challenge level
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    Explore the relationship between resistance and temperature

  • 12345
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    12345

    Age
    14 to 16
    Challenge level
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    Repeat a pattern of numbers to form a larger number. Can you find the sum of all the digits?

  • Day of the Triffids
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    Day of the Triffids

    Age
    14 to 16
    Challenge level
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    Jasmine buys three different types of plant. How many triffids did she buy?

  • Making Tracks
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    Making Tracks

    Age
    14 to 16
    Challenge level
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    A bicycle passes along a path and leaves some tracks. Is it possible to say which track was made by the front wheel and which by the back wheel?

  • Newspaper Sheets
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    Newspaper Sheets

    Age
    14 to 16
    Challenge level
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    From only the page numbers on one sheet of newspaper, can you work out how many sheets there are altogether?

  • Collatz-ish
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    Collatz-Ish

    Age
    14 to 16
    Challenge level
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    A sequence is generated using these rules. For which values of n is the nth term equal to n?

  • Back in Time
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    Back in Time

    Age
    14 to 16
    Challenge level
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    How many times a day does a 24 hour digital clock look the same when reflected in a horizontal line?

  • Oldest and Youngest
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    Oldest and Youngest

    Age
    14 to 16
    Challenge level
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    Edith had 9 children at 15 month intervals. If the oldest is now six times as old as the youngest, how old is her youngest child?

  • Just rolling round
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    Just Rolling Round

    Age
    14 to 16
    Challenge level
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    P is a point on the circumference of a circle radius r which rolls, without slipping, inside a circle of radius 2r. What is the locus of P?