Year 4 Being resilient

  • problem

    Four triangles puzzle

    Age
    5 to 11
    Challenge level
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    Cut four triangles from a square as shown in the picture. How many different shapes can you make by fitting the four triangles back together?

  • Seeing Squares
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    Seeing squares

    Age
    5 to 11
    Challenge level
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    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.

  • Zios and Zepts
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    Zios and Zepts

    Age
    7 to 11
    Challenge level
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    On the planet Vuv there are two sorts of creatures. The Zios have 3 legs and the Zepts have 7 legs. The great planetary explorer Nico counted 52 legs. How many Zios and how many Zepts were there?

  • Fractional Triangles
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    Fractional triangles

    Age
    7 to 11
    Challenge level
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    Use the lines on this figure to show how the square can be divided into 2 halves, 3 thirds, 6 sixths and 9 ninths.

  • Nine-Pin Triangles
    problem

    Nine-pin triangles

    Age
    7 to 11
    Challenge level
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    How many different triangles can you make on a circular pegboard that has nine pegs?

  • Nice or Nasty
    problem

    Nice or nasty

    Age
    7 to 11
    Challenge level
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    There are nasty versions of this dice game but we'll start with the nice ones...

  • Round the Dice Decimals 1
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    Round the dice decimals 1

    Age
    7 to 11
    Challenge level
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    Use two dice to generate two numbers with one decimal place. What happens when you round these numbers to the nearest whole number?

  • Representing Numbers
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    Representing numbers

    Age
    7 to 11
    Challenge level
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    Find as many different ways of representing this number of dots as you can.

  • Seeing Parallelograms
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    Seeing parallelograms

    Age
    7 to 11
    Challenge level
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    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 parallelogram.

  • Digit Discovery
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    Digit discovery

    Age
    7 to 11
    Challenge level
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    Here is an interesting property about two sets of digits. Can you work out what the digits might be?

  • Shapes on the Playground
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    Shapes on the playground

    Age
    7 to 11
    Challenge level
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    Sally and Ben were drawing shapes in chalk on the school playground. Can you work out what shapes each of them drew using the clues?

  • problem

    Cut it out

    Age
    7 to 11
    Challenge level
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    Can you dissect an equilateral triangle into 6 smaller ones? What number of smaller equilateral triangles is it NOT possible to dissect a larger equilateral triangle into?

  • Symmetry Challenge
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    Symmetry challenge

    Age
    7 to 11
    Challenge level
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    How many symmetric designs can you make on this grid? Can you find them all?

  • What shape?
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    What shape?

    Age
    7 to 14
    Challenge level
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    This task develops spatial reasoning skills. By framing and asking questions a member of the team has to find out what mathematical object they have chosen.

  • Climbing Conundrum
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    Climbing conundrum

    Age
    7 to 14
    Challenge level
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    Five children are taking part in a climbing competition with three parts, where their score for each part will be multiplied together. Can you see how the leaderboard will change depending on what happens in the final climb of the competition?

  • Remainders
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    Remainders

    Age
    7 to 14
    Challenge level
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    I'm thinking of a number. My number is both a multiple of 5 and a multiple of 6. What could my number be?

  • Eight hidden squares
    problem

    Eight hidden squares

    Age
    7 to 14
    Challenge level
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    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?