Year 7 Being resourceful

  • Estimating angles
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    Estimating Angles

    Age
    7 to 14
    Challenge level
    1 out of 3

    How good are you at estimating angles?

  • The Remainders Game
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    The Remainders Game

    Age
    7 to 14
    Challenge level
    1 out of 3

    Play this game and see if you can figure out the computer's chosen number.

  • Countdown
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    Countdown

    Age
    7 to 14
    Challenge level
    1 out of 3

    Here is a chance to play a version of the classic Countdown Game.

  • Dicey Operations
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    Dicey Operations

    Age
    7 to 14
    Challenge level
    1 out of 3

    In these addition and subtraction games, you'll need to think strategically to get closest to the target.

  • Dozens
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    Dozens

    Age
    7 to 14
    Challenge level
    1 out of 3

    Can you select the missing digit(s) to find the largest multiple?

  • A rolled up old-fashioned treasure map.
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    Treasure Hunt

    Age
    7 to 14
    Challenge level
    1 out of 3

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

  • missing multipliers
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    Missing Multipliers

    Age
    7 to 14
    Challenge level
    1 out of 3

    What is the smallest number of answers you need to reveal in order to work out the missing headers?

  • Less is More
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    Less Is More

    Age
    7 to 14
    Challenge level
    1 out of 3

    Use your knowledge of place value to try to win this game. How will you maximise your score?

  • More Less is More
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    More Less Is More

    Age
    7 to 14
    Challenge level
    1 out of 3

    In each of these games, you will need a little bit of luck and your knowledge of place value to develop a winning strategy.

  • Dicey Operations
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    More Dicey Operations

    Age
    7 to 14
    Challenge level
    1 out of 3

    In these multiplication and division games, you'll need to think strategically to get closest to the target.

  • A chopped carrot beside a whole carrot. The carrot top sits away from the chopped carrot.
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    Remainders

    Age
    7 to 14
    Challenge level
    2 out of 3

    I'm thinking of a number. My number is both a multiple of 5 and a multiple of 6. What could my number be?

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    Doughnut Percents

    Age
    7 to 14
    Challenge level
    2 out of 3

    Can you make doughnuts by matching these fractions, decimals and percentages?

  • Number Lines in Disguise
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    Number Lines in Disguise

    Age
    7 to 14
    Challenge level
    2 out of 3

    Some of the numbers have fallen off Becky's number line. Can you figure out what they were?

  • Two and Two
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    Two and Two

    Age
    7 to 16
    Challenge level
    3 out of 3

    How many solutions can you find to this sum? Each of the different letters stands for a different number.

  • Summing Consecutive Numbers
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    Summing Consecutive Numbers

    Age
    11 to 14
    Challenge level
    1 out of 3

    15 = 7 + 8 and 10 = 1 + 2 + 3 + 4. Can you say which numbers can be expressed as the sum of two or more consecutive integers?

  • Reflecting Squarely
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    Reflecting Squarely

    Age
    11 to 14
    Challenge level
    1 out of 3

    In how many ways can you fit all three pieces together to make shapes with line symmetry?

  • Shady Symmetry
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    Shady Symmetry

    Age
    11 to 14
    Challenge level
    1 out of 3

    How many different symmetrical shapes can you make by shading triangles or squares?

  • Picturing Square Numbers
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    Picturing Square Numbers

    Age
    11 to 14
    Challenge level
    1 out of 3

    Square numbers can be represented as the sum of consecutive odd numbers. What is the sum of 1 + 3 + ..... + 149 + 151 + 153?

  • Consecutive Seven
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    Consecutive Seven

    Age
    11 to 14
    Challenge level
    1 out of 3

    Can you arrange these numbers into 7 subsets, each of three numbers, so that when the numbers in each are added together, they make seven consecutive numbers?

  • Odds and Evens
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    Odds and Evens

    Age
    11 to 14
    Challenge level
    1 out of 3

    Are these games fair? How can you tell?

  • Substitution Cipher
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    Substitution Cipher

    Age
    11 to 14
    Challenge level
    1 out of 3

    Find the frequency distribution for ordinary English, and use it to help you crack the code.

  • m, m and m
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    M, M and M

    Age
    11 to 14
    Challenge level
    1 out of 3

    If you are given the mean, median and mode of five positive whole numbers, can you find the numbers?

  • Going round in circles
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    Going Round in Circles

    Age
    11 to 14
    Challenge level
    1 out of 3

    Mathematicians are always looking for efficient methods for solving problems. How efficient can you be?

  • Shifting Times Tables
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    Shifting Times Tables

    Age
    11 to 14
    Challenge level
    1 out of 3

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

  • Mixing Lemonade
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    Mixing Lemonade

    Age
    11 to 14
    Challenge level
    1 out of 3

    Can you work out which drink has the stronger flavour?

  • Odds, Evens and More Evens
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    Odds, Evens and More Evens

    Age
    11 to 14
    Challenge level
    1 out of 3

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

  • Changing areas, changing perimeters
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    Changing Areas, Changing Perimeters

    Age
    11 to 14
    Challenge level
    1 out of 3

    How can you change the area of a shape but keep its perimeter the same? How can you change the perimeter but keep the area the same?

  • Magic Letters
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    Magic Letters

    Age
    11 to 14
    Challenge level
    1 out of 3

    Charlie has made a Magic V. Can you use his example to make some more? And how about Magic Ls, Ns and Ws?

  • Hidden Squares
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    Hidden Squares

    Age
    11 to 14
    Challenge level
    1 out of 3

    Can you find the squares hidden on these coordinate grids?

  • Perimeter Possibilities
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    Perimeter Possibilities

    Age
    11 to 14
    Challenge level
    1 out of 3

    I'm thinking of a rectangle with an area of 24. What could its perimeter be?