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Are you ready for a challenge? The tasks in this feature are designed to challenge your mathematical thinking!

Twenty Divided into Six
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Twenty divided into six

Age
7 to 11
Challenge level
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Katie had a pack of 20 cards numbered from 1 to 20. She arranged the cards into 6 unequal piles where each pile added to the same total. What was the total and how could this be done?

Which Scripts?
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Which scripts?

Age
7 to 11
Challenge level
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There are six numbers written in five different scripts. Can you sort out which is which?

Number Lines in Disguise
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Number lines in disguise

Age
7 to 14
Challenge level
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Some of the numbers have fallen off Becky's number line. Can you figure out what they were?

Domino Square
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Domino square

Age
7 to 11
Challenge level
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Use the 'double-3 down' dominoes to make a square so that each side has eight dots.