Year 5 Being curious

  • Division Rules
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    Division rules

    Age
    7 to 11
    Challenge level
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    This challenge encourages you to explore dividing a three-digit number by a single-digit number.

  • Tumbling Down
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    Tumbling down

    Age
    7 to 11
    Challenge level
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    Watch this animation. What do you see? Can you explain why this happens?

  • Less is More
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    Less is more

    Age
    7 to 11
    Challenge level
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    Use your knowledge of place value to try to win this game. How will you maximise your score?

  • Twenty Divided into Six
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    Twenty divided into six

    Age
    7 to 11
    Challenge level
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    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?

  • problem

    One wasn't square

    Age
    7 to 11
    Challenge level
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    Mrs Morgan, the class's teacher, pinned numbers onto the backs of three children. Use the information to find out what the three numbers were.

  • Pouring Problem
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    Pouring problem

    Age
    7 to 11
    Challenge level
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    What do you think is going to happen in this video clip? Are you surprised?

  • Fitted
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    Fitted

    Age
    7 to 11
    Challenge level
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    Nine squares with side lengths 1, 4, 7, 8, 9, 10, 14, 15, and 18 cm can be fitted together to form a rectangle. What are the dimensions of the rectangle?

  • Fraction Fascination
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    Fraction fascination

    Age
    7 to 11
    Challenge level
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    This problem challenges you to work out what fraction of the whole area of these pictures is taken up by various shapes.

  • Curious number
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    Curious number

    Age
    7 to 11
    Challenge level
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    Can you order the digits from 1-3 to make a number which is divisible by 3 so when the last digit is removed it becomes a 2-figure number divisible by 2, and so on?

  • Olympic Turns
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    Olympic turns

    Age
    7 to 11
    Challenge level
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    This task looks at the different turns involved in different Olympic sports as a way of exploring the mathematics of turns and angles.