Year 9 Being resilient

  • Elevenses
    problem

    Elevenses

    Age
    11 to 14
    Challenge level
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    How many pairs of numbers can you find that add up to a multiple of 11? Do you notice anything interesting about your results?

  • Legs Eleven
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    Legs eleven

    Age
    11 to 14
    Challenge level
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    Take any four digit number. Move the first digit to the end and move the rest along. Now add your two numbers. Did you get a multiple of 11?

  • 1 Step 2 Step
    problem

    1 step 2 step

    Age
    11 to 14
    Challenge level
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    Liam's house has a staircase with 12 steps. He can go down the steps one at a time or two at time. In how many different ways can Liam go down the 12 steps?

  • Tower of Hanoi
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    Tower of Hanoi

    Age
    11 to 14
    Challenge level
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    The Tower of Hanoi is an ancient mathematical challenge. Working on the building blocks may help you to explain the patterns you notice.

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

    Age
    11 to 14
    Challenge level
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    Imagine we have four bags containing numbers from a sequence. What numbers can we make now?

  • Overlaps
    problem

    Overlaps

    Age
    11 to 14
    Challenge level
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    Can you find ways to put numbers in the overlaps so the rings have equal totals?

  • Triangles to Tetrahedra
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    Triangles to tetrahedra

    Age
    11 to 14
    Challenge level
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    Imagine you have an unlimited number of four types of triangle. How many different tetrahedra can you make?

  • How Many Miles To Go?
    problem

    How many miles to go?

    Age
    11 to 14
    Challenge level
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    How many more miles must the car travel before the numbers on the milometer and the trip meter contain the same digits in the same order?

  • Cuboids
    problem

    Cuboids

    Age
    11 to 14
    Challenge level
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    Can you find a cuboid that has a surface area of exactly 100 square units. Is there more than one? Can you find them all?

  • Funny Factorisation
    problem

    Funny factorisation

    Age
    11 to 16
    Challenge level
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    Using the digits 1 to 9, the number 4396 can be written as the product of two numbers. Can you find the factors?

  • Product Sudoku
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    Product Sudoku

    Age
    11 to 16
    Challenge level
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    The clues for this Sudoku are the product of the numbers in adjacent squares.

  • Wipeout
    problem

    Wipeout

    Age
    11 to 16
    Challenge level
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    Can you do a little mathematical detective work to figure out which number has been wiped out?

  • Nine Colours
    problem

    Nine colours

    Age
    11 to 16
    Challenge level
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    Can you use small coloured cubes to make a 3 by 3 by 3 cube so that each face of the bigger cube contains one of each colour?