Doplication

We can arrange dots in a similar way to the 5 on a dice and they usually sit quite well into a rectangular shape. How many altogether in this 3 by 5? What happens for other sizes?

Round and Round the Circle

What happens if you join every second point on this circle? How about every third point? Try with different steps and see if you can predict what will happen.

Making Cuboids

Let's say you can only use two different lengths - 2 units and 4 units. Using just these 2 lengths as the edges how many different cuboids can you make?

Round the Four Dice

Age 7 to 11
Challenge Level

Begin by rolling the dice and making four different four-digit numbers. Then round each of them to the nearest multiple of 1000. Remember that sometimes you round up and sometimes you round down.

You could record your results in a table like this one:

Numbers rolled	1st four-digit number	Rounds to	2nd four-digit number	Rounds to	3rd four-digit number	Rounds to	4th four-digit number	Rounds to
1, 2, 3 and 4	1324	1000	2314	2000	4312	4000	4123	4000

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