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Frogs


Multiplication arithmagons
Can you find the values at the vertices when you know the values on the edges of these multiplication arithmagons?

Arithmagons
Can you find the values at the vertices when you know the values on the edges?

Special numbers
My two digit number is special because adding the sum of its digits to the product of its digits gives me my original number. What could my number be?

How old am I?
In 15 years' time my age will be the square of my age 15 years ago. Can you work out my age, and when I had other special birthdays?

Tower of Hanoi
The Tower of Hanoi is an ancient mathematical challenge. Working on the building blocks may help you to explain the patterns you notice.

Treasure hunt
Can you find a reliable strategy for choosing coordinates that will locate the treasure in the minimum number of guesses?

Finding factors
Can you find the hidden factors which multiply together to produce each quadratic expression?

Shifting times tables
Can you find a way to identify times tables after they have been shifted up or down?

Charlie's delightful machine
Here is a machine with four coloured lights. Can you develop a strategy to work out the rules controlling each light?

What's possible?
Many numbers can be expressed as the difference of two perfect squares. What do you notice about the numbers you CANNOT make?

Always a multiple?
Think of a two digit number, reverse the digits, and add the numbers together. Something special happens...

Odds, evens and more evens
Alison, Bernard and Charlie have been exploring sequences of odd and even numbers, which raise some intriguing questions...

Warmsnug double glazing
How have "Warmsnug" arrived at the prices shown on their windows? Which window has been given an incorrect price?

A little light thinking
Here is a machine with four coloured lights. Can you make two lights switch on at once? Three lights? All four lights?

Which is bigger?
Which is bigger, n+10 or 2n+3? Can you find a good method of answering similar questions?