### Cubes

Investigate the number of faces you can see when you arrange three cubes in different ways.

### I'm Eight

Find a great variety of ways of asking questions which make 8.

### Let's Investigate Triangles

Vincent and Tara are making triangles with the class construction set. They have a pile of strips of different lengths. How many different triangles can they make?

# Ring a Ring of Numbers

##### Stage: 1 Challenge Level:

Choose four of the numbers from this list: $1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9$ to put in the squares below so that the difference between joined squares is odd.
Only one number is allowed in each square. You must use four different numbers.
What can you say about the sum of each pair of joined squares?
What must you do to make the difference even?
What do you notice about the sum of the pairs now?

Here are some sheets for recording your solutions.

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