### Cubes

How many faces can you see when you arrange these three cubes in different ways?

### Pebbles

Place four pebbles on the sand in the form of a square. Keep adding as few pebbles as necessary to double the area. How many extra pebbles are added each time?

### Bracelets

Investigate the different shaped bracelets you could make from 18 different spherical beads. How do they compare if you use 24 beads?

# Multiplication Squares

##### Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:

In the $2 \times 2$ multiplication square below, the boxes at the end of each row and the foot of each column give the result of multiplying the two numbers in that row or column.

 7 5 35 3 4 12 21 20

The $3 \times3$ multiplication square below works in the same way. The boxes at the end of each row and the foot of each column give the result of multiplying the three numbers in that row or column.

 15 108 224 144 8 315

The numbers $1 - 9$ may be used once and once only.

Can you work out the arrangement of the digits in the square so that the given products are correct?