Year 8 Being curious

  • Subtraction Surprise
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    Subtraction surprise

    Age
    7 to 14
    Challenge level
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    Try out these calculations. Are you surprised by the results?

  • Method in multiplying madness?
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    Method in multiplying madness?

    Age
    7 to 14
    Challenge level
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    Watch our videos of multiplication methods that you may not have met before. Can you make sense of them?

  • Can they be equal?
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    Can they be equal?

    Age
    11 to 14
    Challenge level
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    Can you find rectangles where the value of the area is the same as the value of the perimeter?

  • How much can we spend?
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    How much can we spend?

    Age
    11 to 14
    Challenge level
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    A country has decided to have just two different coins, 3z and 5z coins. Which totals can be made? Is there a largest total that cannot be made? How do you know?

  • Your number was...
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    Your number was...

    Age
    11 to 14
    Challenge level
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    Think of a number and follow my instructions. Tell me your answer, and I'll tell you what you started with! Can you explain how I know?

  • What numbers can we make?
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    What numbers can we make?

    Age
    11 to 14
    Challenge level
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    Imagine we have four bags containing a large number of 1s, 4s, 7s and 10s. What numbers can we make?

  • Where can we visit?
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    Where can we visit?

    Age
    11 to 14
    Challenge level
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    Charlie and Abi put a counter on 42. They wondered if they could visit all the other numbers on their 1-100 board, moving the counter using just these two operations: x2 and -5. What do you think?

  • Farey Sequences
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    Farey sequences

    Age
    11 to 14
    Challenge level
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    There are lots of ideas to explore in these sequences of ordered fractions.

  • Stars
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    Stars

    Age
    11 to 14
    Challenge level
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    Can you work out what step size to take to ensure you visit all the dots on the circle?

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    Right angles

    Age
    11 to 14
    Challenge level
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    Can you make a right-angled triangle on this peg-board by joining up three points round the edge?