Our latest Creativity feature for students encourages exploration of situations which require them to consider freedom and constraints.
This feature offers problems suitable for classroom use on the same theme, which you may wish to explore with your students.
This feature offers problems suitable for classroom use on the same theme, which you may wish to explore with your students.

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1 step 2 step
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?


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Cinema problem
A cinema has 100 seats. How can ticket sales make £100 for these different combinations of ticket prices?

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What numbers can we make?
Imagine we have four bags containing a large number of 1s, 4s, 7s and 10s. What numbers can we make?

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Take three from five
Caroline and James pick sets of five numbers. Charlie tries to find three that add together to make a multiple of three. Can they stop him?