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Year 9 Working systematically

Fruity Totals
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Fruity totals

Age
7 to 16
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In this interactivity each fruit has a hidden value. Can you deduce what each one is worth?

Days and Dates
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Days and dates

Age
11 to 14
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Investigate how you can work out what day of the week your birthday will be on next year, and the year after...
What's it worth?
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What's it worth?

Age
11 to 16
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There are lots of different methods to find out what the shapes are worth - how many can you find?

Cinema Problem
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Cinema problem

Age
11 to 14
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A cinema has 100 seats. How can ticket sales make £100 for these different combinations of ticket prices?

Tilted Squares
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Tilted squares

Age
11 to 14
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It's easy to work out the areas of most squares that we meet, but what if they were tilted?

How far does it move?
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How far does it move?

Age
11 to 14
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Experiment with the interactivity of "rolling" regular polygons, and explore how the different positions of the dot affects the distance it travels at each stage.

Semi-regular Tessellations
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Semi-regular tessellations

Age
11 to 16
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Semi-regular tessellations combine two or more different regular polygons to fill the plane. Can you find all the semi-regular tessellations?

Elevenses
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Elevenses

Age
11 to 14
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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?
Growing Surprises
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Growing surprises

Age
11 to 14
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Can you find the connections between linear and quadratic patterns?
Counting Factors
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Counting factors

Age
11 to 14
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Is there an efficient way to work out how many factors a large number has?
Funny Factorisation
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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?
1 Step 2 Step
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1 step 2 step

Age
11 to 14
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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?
Speeding up, slowing down
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Speeding up, slowing down

Age
11 to 14
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Experiment with the interactivity of "rolling" regular polygons, and explore how the different positions of the dot affects its speed at each stage.

Product Sudoku
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Product Sudoku

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

Opposite vertices
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Opposite vertices

Age
11 to 14
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Can you recreate squares and rhombuses if you are only given a side or a diagonal?

Wipeout
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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?
Overlaps
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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?
Alison's quilt
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Alison's quilt

Age
11 to 14
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Nine squares are fitted together to form a rectangle. Can you find its dimensions?
Nine Colours
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Nine colours

Age
11 to 16
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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?
Triangles to Tetrahedra
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Triangles to tetrahedra

Age
11 to 14
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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?
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How many miles to go?

Age
11 to 14
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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?
Ben's Game
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Ben's game

Age
11 to 16
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Ben, Jack and Emma passed counters to each other and ended with the same number of counters. How many did they start with?
Cuboids
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Cuboids

Age
11 to 14
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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?
Up and across
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Up and across

Age
11 to 14
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Experiment with the interactivity of "rolling" regular polygons, and explore how the different positions of the dot affects its vertical and horizontal movement at each stage.

Which solids can we make?
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Which solids can we make?

Age
11 to 14
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Interior angles can help us to work out which polygons will tessellate. Can we use similar ideas to predict which polygons combine to create semi-regular solids?