Homes

Six new homes are being built! They can be detached, semi-detached or terraced houses. How many different combinations of these can you find?

Stairs

This challenge is to design different step arrangements, which must go along a distance of 6 on the steps and must end up at 6 high.

Train Carriages

Suppose there is a train with 24 carriages which are going to be put together to make up some new trains. Can you find all the ways that this can be done?

Bugs in the Garden

Age 5 to 7Challenge Level

In Sam and Jill's garden there are two sorts of ladybirds. There are red Seven-Spot ladybirds with $7$ black spots and shiny black Four-Spot ladybirds with $4$ red spots.

Sam and Jill looked at a leaf with three ladybirds on it.

"One Seven-Spot ladybird," said Sam, "and two Four-Spot ones."
"That's $15$ spots altogether!" laughed Jill.
"I wonder if we could find ladybirds whose spots add to other numbers. I know how to do $16$."
"And $14$ is easy too," added Sam.

How would you make $16$ and $14$ spots with the Seven-Spot and Four-Spot ladybirds?

What other numbers can you make with adding $4$s and $7$s?
Can you get lots of numbers from say $4$ to $35$?
Are there some numbers you can't get?