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Reasoning with numbers

Magic Letters
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Magic letters

Age
11 to 14
Challenge level
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Charlie has made a Magic V. Can you use his example to make some more? And how about Magic Ls, Ns and Ws?
What numbers can we make?
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What numbers can we make?

Age
11 to 14
Challenge level
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Imagine we have four bags containing a large number of 1s, 4s, 7s and 10s. What numbers can we make?

Method in multiplying madness?
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Method in multiplying madness?

Age
7 to 14
Challenge level
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Watch our videos of multiplication methods that you may not have met before. Can you make sense of them?
Always a multiple?
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Always a multiple?

Age
11 to 14
Challenge level
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Think of a two digit number, reverse the digits, and add the numbers together. Something special happens...

Take Three From Five
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Take three from five

Age
11 to 16
Challenge level
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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?