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Train Carriages
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Train carriages

Age
5 to 11
Challenge level
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Suppose there is a train with 24 carriages which are going to be put together to make up some new trains. Can you find all the ways that this can be done?
Triangle Shapes
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Triangle shapes

Age
5 to 11
Challenge level
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This practical problem challenges you to create shapes and patterns with two different types of triangle. You could even try overlapping them.
tiling
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Tiling

Age
7 to 11
Challenge level
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An investigation that gives you the opportunity to make and justify predictions.
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Plants

Age
5 to 14
Challenge level
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Three children are going to buy some plants for their birthdays. They will plant them within circular paths. How could they do this?

Street Sequences
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Street sequences

Age
5 to 11
Challenge level
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Investigate what happens when you add house numbers along a street in different ways.

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Sweets in a box

Age
7 to 11
Challenge level
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How many different shaped boxes can you design for 36 sweets in one layer? Can you arrange the sweets so that no sweets of the same colour are next to each other in any direction?

2 Rings
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2 rings

Age
5 to 7
Challenge level
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The red ring is inside the blue ring in this picture. Can you rearrange the rings in different ways? Perhaps you can overlap them or put one outside another?

Follow the numbers
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Follow the numbers

Age
7 to 11
Challenge level
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What happens when you add the digits of a number then multiply the result by 2 and you keep doing this? You could try for different numbers and different rules.

Consecutive Numbers
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Consecutive numbers

Age
7 to 14
Challenge level
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An investigation involving adding and subtracting sets of consecutive numbers. Lots to find out, lots to explore.

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Caterpillars

Age
5 to 7
Challenge level
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These caterpillars have 16 parts. What different shapes do they make if each part lies in the small squares of a 4 by 4 square?