Place value

  • Quick Times
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    Quick Times

    Age
    11 to 14
    Challenge level
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    Can you verify and generalise these equations?

  • A bowl of plain pasta.
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    Basically

    Age
    11 to 14
    Challenge level
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    The number 3723 (in base 10) is written as 123 in another base. What is that base?

  • Please Explain
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    Please Explain

    Age
    11 to 14
    Challenge level
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    Visitors to Earth from the distant planet of Zub-Zorna were amazed when they found out that when the digits in this multiplication were reversed, the answer was the same! Find a way to explain why this works.

  • Back to the Planet of Vuvv
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    Back to the Planet of Vuvv

    Age
    11 to 14
    Challenge level
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    There are two forms of counting on Vuvv - Zios count in base 3 and Zepts count in base 7. Can you work out in which direction the Zios and Zepts were looking, based on the information you're given?

  • Plastic human skeleton on a blue background.
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    Skeleton

    Age
    11 to 14
    Challenge level
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    Can you reconstruct the long division calculation from the 'skeleton'?

  • eNRICHing experience
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    eNRICHing Experience

    Age
    14 to 16
    Challenge level
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    Find the five distinct digits N, R, I, C and H in the following nomogram

  • What a Joke
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    What a Joke

    Age
    14 to 16
    Challenge level
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    Each letter represents a different positive digit AHHAAH / JOKE = HA What are the values of each of the letters?

  • DOTS Division
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    DOTS Division

    Age
    14 to 16
    Challenge level
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    Take any pair of two digit numbers x=ab and y=cd where, without loss of generality, ab > cd . Form two 4 digit numbers r=abcd and s=cdab and calculate: {r^2 - s^2} /{x^2 - y^2}.

  • Place value, integers, ordering and rounding - Short Problems
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    Digit Sum

    Age
    14 to 16
    Challenge level
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    What is the sum of all the digits in all the integers from one to one million?

  • Really Mr. Bond
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    Really Mr. Bond

    Age
    14 to 16
    Challenge level
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    Can you explain what's happening with these numbers?