The National Young Mathematicians' Award
The National Young Mathematicians' Award
Have you heard of the National Young Mathematicians' Award (NYMA)? If not, you can find out more
here.
Bernard, one of the members of the NRICH team, creates the brain-stretching activities used in the NYMA. In this feature, we have gathered together some tasks which will help you 'limber up' for the main NYMA tasks. Have a go at these tricky challenges and see how you get on ...
How many different triangles can you draw on the dotty grid which each have one dot in the middle?
Frances and Rishi were given a bag of lollies. They shared them out evenly and had one left over. How many lollies could there have been in the bag?
Imagine a 3 by 3 by 3 cube. If you and a friend drill holes in some of the small cubes in the ways described, how many will have holes drilled through them?
This problem looks at how one example of your choice can show something about the general structure of multiplication.