During the summer, we published a collection of summer challenges, which we hope your students enjoyed. Below we have selected a few of the tasks that we think are particularly suitable for the start of term, when you are getting to know your
learners. They offer the chance to do some exploratory collaborative work at a range of levels.
The tasks feature in our Secondary curriculum mapping document, which contains links to a variety of problems for teachers wishing to embed rich mathematical tasks into their everyday teaching.
Consecutive Seven
Age 11 to 14
Challenge Level
Can you arrange these numbers into 7 subsets, each of three numbers, so that when the numbers in each are added together, they make seven consecutive numbers?
Add to 200
Age 11 to 14
Challenge Level
By selecting digits for an addition grid, what targets can you make?
More Less Is More
Age 7 to 14
Challenge Level
In each of these games, you will need a little bit of luck, and your knowledge of place value to develop a winning strategy.
Route to Infinity
Age 11 to 14
Challenge Level
Can you describe this route to infinity? Where will the arrows take you next?
Square It
Age 11 to 16
Challenge Level
Players take it in turns to choose a dot on the grid. The winner is the first to have four dots that can be joined to form a square.
Take Three from Five
Age 11 to 16
Challenge Level
Caroline and James pick sets of five numbers. Charlie tries to find three that add together to make a multiple of three. Can they stop him?
NRICH is part of the family of activities in the Millennium Mathematics Project.