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Turning Man
Use the interactivity to find out how many quarter turns the man must rotate through to look like each of the pictures.
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Repeating Patterns
Try continuing these patterns made from triangles. Can you create your own repeating pattern?
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Poly Plug Rectangles
The computer has made a rectangle and will tell you the number of spots it uses in total. Can you find out where the rectangle is?
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The animals' sports day
One day five small animals in my garden were going to have a sports day. They decided to have a swimming race, a running race, a high jump and a long jump.
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Seeing Squares
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.
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Ladybird Count
Some children were playing a game. Make a graph or picture to show how many ladybirds each child had.
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Wallpaper
These pieces of wallpaper need to be ordered from smallest to largest. Can you find a way to do it?
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Heads and Feet
On a farm there were some hens and sheep. Altogether there were 8 heads and 22 feet. How many hens were there?
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Eggs in Baskets
There are three baskets, a brown one, a red one and a pink one, holding a total of 10 eggs. How many eggs are in each basket?
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4 Dom
Use these four dominoes to make a square that has the same number of dots on each side.
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The Tall Tower
As you come down the ladders of the Tall Tower you collect useful spells. Which way should you go to collect the most spells?
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Shape Times Shape
These eleven shapes each stand for a different number. Can you use the number sentences to work out what they are?
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First Connect Three
Add or subtract the two numbers on the spinners and try to complete a row of three. Are there some numbers that are good to aim for?
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Cows and Sheep
Use your logical reasoning to work out how many cows and how many
sheep there are in each field.
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Magic Vs
Can you put the numbers 1-5 in the V shape so that both 'arms' have the same total?
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Treasure Hunt
Can you find a reliable strategy for choosing coordinates that will locate the treasure in the minimum number of guesses?
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Coded hundred square
This 100 square jigsaw is written in code. It starts with 1 and ends with 100. Can you build it up?
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Nice or Nasty
There are nasty versions of this dice game but we'll start with the nice ones...
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Missing Multipliers
What is the smallest number of answers you need to reveal in order to work out the missing headers?
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Play to 37
In this game for two players, the idea is to take it in turns to choose 1, 3, 5 or 7. The winner is the first to make the total 37.
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Satisfying Four Statements
Can you find any two-digit numbers that satisfy all of these statements?
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A Puzzling Cube
Here are the six faces of a cube - in no particular order. Here are three views of the cube. Can you deduce where the faces are in relation to each other and record them on the net of this cube?
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Square Corners
What is the greatest number of counters you can place on the grid below without four of them lying at the corners of a square?
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Torn Shapes
These rectangles have been torn. How many squares did each one have inside it before it was ripped?
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Four Go
This challenge is a game for two players. Choose two of the numbers to multiply or divide, then mark your answer on the number line. Can you get four in a row?
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Eight hidden squares
On the graph there are 28 marked points. These points all mark the vertices (corners) of eight hidden squares. Can you find the eight hidden squares?
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Through the Window
My local DIY shop calculates the price of its windows according to the area of glass and the length of frame used. Can you work out how they arrived at these prices?
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Twenty Divided into Six
Katie had a pack of 20 cards numbered from 1 to 20. She arranged the cards into 6 unequal piles where each pile added to the same total. What was the total and how could this be done?
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Number Lines in Disguise
Some of the numbers have fallen off Becky's number line. Can you figure out what they were?
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Mystery Matrix
Can you fill in this table square? The numbers 2 -12 were used to generate it with just one number used twice.
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Sealed Solution
Ten cards are put into five envelopes so that there are two cards in each envelope. The sum of the numbers inside it is written on each envelope. What numbers could be inside the envelopes?
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Sponge Sections
You have been given three shapes made out of sponge: a sphere, a cylinder and a cone. Your challenge is to find out how to cut them to make different shapes for printing.
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Cut Nets
Each of the nets of nine solid shapes has been cut into two pieces. Can you see which pieces go together?
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Two and Two
How many solutions can you find to this sum? Each of the different letters stands for a different number.