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Sending Cards
This challenge asks you to investigate the total number of cards that would be sent if four children send one to all three others. How many would be sent if there were five children? Six?
Dice and Spinner Numbers
If you had any number of ordinary dice, what are the possible ways of making their totals 6? What would the product of the dice be each time?
Age 7 to 11
Challenge Level
Martha from Tattingstone School sent us a very clearly answer to the first part:
Martha goes on to give the solution for
the second part too: 
Caroline, also from Tattingstone, has
answered the third part of the problem: 
Well done Caroline - although perhaps it
would have been better to write 3 x 4, not 4 x 3. Back to Martha
for part four: 
Finally, Caroline has answered the last
part for us: 
Excellent answers both of you! Very well done.
NRICH is part of the family of activities in the Millennium Mathematics Project.