Year 9 Being resilient

  • A cardboard carton of cherries.
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    Fruity Totals

    Age
    7 to 16
    Challenge level
    1 out of 3

    In this interactivity each fruit has a hidden value. Can you deduce what each one is worth?

  • Largest product
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    Largest Product

    Age
    11 to 14
    Challenge level
    1 out of 3

    Which set of numbers that add to 100 have the largest product?

  • Elevenses
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    Elevenses

    Age
    11 to 14
    Challenge level
    1 out of 3

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

  • Add to 200
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    Add to 200

    Age
    11 to 14
    Challenge level
    1 out of 3

    By selecting digits for an addition grid, what targets can you make?

  • Legs Eleven
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    Legs Eleven

    Age
    11 to 14
    Challenge level
    2 out of 3

    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
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    1 Step 2 Step

    Age
    11 to 14
    Challenge level
    2 out of 3

    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?

  • The Tower of Hanoi - three wooden poles, with several coloured rings of decreasing sizes on the middle pole.
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    Tower of Hanoi

    Age
    11 to 14
    Challenge level
    2 out of 3

    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
    2 out of 3

    Imagine we have four bags containing numbers from a sequence. What numbers can we make now?

  • Quadrilaterals in a Square
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    Quadrilaterals in a Square

    Age
    11 to 14
    Challenge level
    2 out of 3

    What's special about the area of quadrilaterals drawn in a square?

  • Overlaps
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    Overlaps

    Age
    11 to 14
    Challenge level
    2 out of 3

    Can you find ways to put numbers in the overlaps so the rings have equal totals?

  • Star Polygons
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    Star Polygons

    Age
    11 to 14
    Challenge level
    2 out of 3

    Draw some stars and measure the angles at their points. Can you find and prove a result about their sum?

  • The Farmers' Field Boundary
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    The Farmers' Field Boundary

    Age
    11 to 14
    Challenge level
    2 out of 3

    The farmers want to redraw their field boundary but keep the area the same. Can you advise them?

  • Terminating or not
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    Terminating or Not

    Age
    11 to 14
    Challenge level
    2 out of 3

    Is there a quick way to work out whether a fraction terminates or recurs when you write it as a decimal?

  • Triangles to Tetrahedra
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    Triangles to Tetrahedra

    Age
    11 to 14
    Challenge level
    3 out of 3

    Imagine you have an unlimited number of four types of triangle. How many different tetrahedra can you make?

  • Cuboids
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    Cuboids

    Age
    11 to 14
    Challenge level
    3 out of 3

    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?

  • Litov's Mean Value Theorem
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    Litov's Mean Value Theorem

    Age
    11 to 14
    Challenge level
    3 out of 3

    Start with two numbers and generate a sequence where the next number is the mean of the last two numbers...

  • Diamond Collector
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    Diamond Collector

    Age
    11 to 16
    Challenge level
    1 out of 3

    Collect as many diamonds as you can by drawing three straight lines.

  • What's it worth?
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    What's It Worth?

    Age
    11 to 16
    Challenge level
    1 out of 3

    There are lots of different methods to find out what the shapes are worth - how many can you find?

  • Funny Factorisation
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    Funny Factorisation

    Age
    11 to 16
    Challenge level
    2 out of 3

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

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    Marbles in a Box

    Age
    11 to 16
    Challenge level
    2 out of 3

    How many winning lines can you make in a three-dimensional version of noughts and crosses?

  • Product Sudoku
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    Product Sudoku

    Age
    11 to 16
    Challenge level
    2 out of 3

    The clues for this Sudoku are the product of the numbers in adjacent squares.

  • Pythagoras Proofs
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    Pythagoras Proofs

    Age
    11 to 16
    Challenge level
    2 out of 3

    Can you make sense of these three proofs of Pythagoras' Theorem?

  • Triangle in a Trapezium
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    Triangle in a Trapezium

    Age
    11 to 16
    Challenge level
    2 out of 3

    Can you find and prove the relationship between the area of a trapezium and the area of a triangle constructed within it?

  • Nine Colours
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    Nine Colours

    Age
    11 to 16
    Challenge level
    3 out of 3

    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?

  • Ben's Game
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    Ben's Game

    Age
    11 to 16
    Challenge level
    3 out of 3

    Ben, Jack and Emma passed counters to each other and ended with the same number of counters. How many did they start with?

  • Tree tops
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    Tree Tops

    Age
    14 to 16
    Challenge level
    2 out of 3

    Can you make sense of information about trees in order to maximise the profits of a forestry company?

  • Tet-Trouble
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    Tet-Trouble

    Age
    14 to 16
    Challenge level
    3 out of 3

    Is it possible to have a tetrahedron whose six edges have lengths 10, 20, 30, 40, 50 and 60 units?

  • Mixing More Paints
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    Mixing More Paints

    Age
    14 to 16
    Challenge level
    3 out of 3

    Can you find an efficent way to mix paints in any ratio?