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Bracelets
Stage: 2 Challenge Level: 
Investigate the different shaped bracelets you could make from 18 different spherical beads. How do they compare if you use 24 beads?
Sweets in a Box
Stage: 2 Challenge Level:
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?
Round and Round the Circle
Stage: 2 Challenge Level:
What happens if you join every second point on this circle? How about every third point? Try with different steps and see if you can predict what will happen.
Abundant Numbers
Stage: 2 Challenge Level:
48 is called an abundant number because it is less than the sum of its factors (without itself). Can you find some more abundant numbers?
Cutting it Out
Stage: 1 and 2 Challenge Level:
I cut this square into two different shapes. What can you say about the relationship between them?
Tiling
Stage: 2 Challenge Level:
An investigation that gives you the opportunity to make and justify predictions.
Triangular Hexagons
Stage: 2 Challenge Level:
Investigate these hexagons drawn from different sized equilateral triangles.
Gran, How Old Are You?
Stage: 2 Challenge Level:
When Charlie asked his grandmother how old she is, he didn't get a straightforward reply! Can you work out how old she is?
Egyptian Rope
Stage: 2 Challenge Level:
The ancient Egyptians were said to make right-angled triangles using a rope with twelve equal sections divided by knots. What other triangles could you make if you had a rope like this?
Ip Dip
Stage: 1 and 2 Challenge Level:
"Ip dip sky blue! Who's 'it'? It's you!" Where would you position yourself so that you are 'it' if there are two players? Three players ...?
It Figures
Stage: 2 Challenge Level:
Suppose we allow ourselves to use three numbers less than 10 and multiply them together. How many different products can you find? How do you know you've got them all?
Sets of Four Numbers
Stage: 2 Challenge Level:
There are ten children in Becky's group. Can you find a set of numbers for each of them? Are there any other sets?
Division Rules
Stage: 2 Challenge Level:
This challenge encourages you to explore dividing a three-digit number by a single-digit number.
Pebbles
Stage: 2 and 3 Challenge Level:
Place four pebbles on the sand in the form of a square. Keep adding as few pebbles as necessary to double the area. How many extra pebbles are added each time?
Sets of Numbers
Stage: 2 Challenge Level:
How many different sets of numbers with at least four members can you find in the numbers in this box?
Shaping It
Stage: 1 and 2 Challenge Level:
These pictures were made by starting with a square, finding the half-way point on each side and joining those points up. You could investigate your own starting shape.
Bean Bags for Bernard's Bag
Stage: 2 Challenge Level:
How could you put eight beanbags in the hoops so that there are four in the blue hoop, five in the red and six in the yellow? Can you find all the ways of doing this?
Magic Constants
Stage: 2 Challenge Level:
In a Magic Square all the rows, columns and diagonals add to the 'Magic Constant'. How would you change the magic constant of this square?
Calcunos
Stage: 2 Challenge Level:
If we had 16 light bars which digital numbers could we make? How will you know you've found them all?
Sometimes We Lose Things
Stage: 2 Challenge Level:
Well now, what would happen if we lost all the nines in our number system? Have a go at writing the numbers out in this way and have a look at the multiplications table.
Polo Square
Stage: 2 Challenge Level:
Arrange eight of the numbers between 1 and 9 in the Polo Square below so that each side adds to the same total.
Stairs
Stage: 1 and 2 Challenge Level:
This challenge is to design different step arrangements, which must go along a distance of 6 on the steps and must end up at 6 high.
Making Boxes
Stage: 2 Challenge Level:
Cut differently-sized square corners from a square piece of paper to make boxes without lids. Do they all have the same volume?
The Pied Piper of Hamelin
Stage: 2 Challenge Level:
This problem is based on the story of the Pied Piper of Hamelin. Investigate the different numbers of people and rats there could have been if you know how many legs there are altogether!
Crossing the Town Square
Stage: 2 and 3 Challenge Level:
This tricky challenge asks you to find ways of going across rectangles, going through exactly ten squares.
Building with Rods
Stage: 2 Challenge Level:
In how many ways can you stack these rods, following the rules?
So It's Times!
Stage: 2 and 3 Challenge Level:
How will you decide which way of flipping over and/or turning the grid will give you the highest total?
Tiling Into Slanted Rectangles
Stage: 2 and 3 Challenge Level:
A follow-up activity to Tiles in the Garden.
Sticks and Triangles
Stage: 2 Challenge Level:
Using different numbers of sticks, how many different triangles are you able to make? Can you make any rules about the numbers of sticks that make the most triangles?
Exploring Wild & Wonderful Number Patterns
Stage: 2 Challenge Level:
EWWNP means Exploring Wild and Wonderful Number Patterns Created by Yourself! Investigate what happens if we create number patterns using some simple rules.
Watch Your Feet
Stage: 2 Challenge Level:
I like to walk along the cracks of the paving stones, but not the outside edge of the path itself. How many different routes can you find for me to take?
New House
Stage: 2 Challenge Level:
In this investigation, you must try to make houses using cubes. If the base must not spill over 4 squares and you have 7 cubes which stand for 7 rooms, what different designs can you come up with?
My New Patio
Stage: 2 Challenge Level:
What is the smallest number of tiles needed to tile this patio? Can you investigate patios of different sizes?
Cubes Here and There
Stage: 2 Challenge Level:
How many shapes can you build from three red and two green cubes? Can you use what you've found out to predict the number for four red and two green?
Tessellating Triangles
Stage: 2 Challenge Level:
Can you make these equilateral triangles fit together to cover the paper without any gaps between them? Can you tessellate isosceles triangles?
Room Doubling
Stage: 2 Challenge Level:
Investigate the different ways you could split up these rooms so that you have double the number.
Halloween Investigation
Stage: 2 Challenge Level:
Ana and Ross looked in a trunk in the attic. They found old cloaks and gowns, hats and masks. How many possible costumes could they make?
Month Mania
Stage: 1 and 2 Challenge Level:
Can you design a new shape for the twenty-eight squares and arrange the numbers in a logical way? What patterns do you notice?
Ice Cream
Stage: 2 Challenge Level:
You cannot choose a selection of ice cream flavours that includes totally what someone has already chosen. Have a go and find all the different ways in which seven children can have ice cream.
Street Party
Stage: 2 Challenge Level:
The challenge here is to find as many routes as you can for a fence to go so that this town is divided up into two halves, each with 8 blocks.
Doplication
Stage: 2 Challenge Level:
We can arrange dots in a similar way to the 5 on a dice and they usually sit quite well into a rectangular shape. How many altogether in this 3 by 5? What happens for other sizes?
Tiles on a Patio
Stage: 2 Challenge Level:
How many ways can you find of tiling the square patio, using square tiles of different sizes?
Buying a Balloon
Stage: 2 Challenge Level:
Lolla bought a balloon at the circus. She gave the clown six coins to pay for it. What could Lolla have paid for the balloon?
Magazines
Stage: 2 Challenge Level:
Let's suppose that you are going to have a magazine which has 16 pages of A5 size. Can you find some different ways to make these pages? Investigate the pattern for each if you number the pages.
Train Carriages
Stage: 1 and 2 Challenge Level:
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?
Counting on Letters
Stage: 3 Challenge Level:
The letters of the word ABACUS have been arranged in the shape of a triangle. How many different ways can you find to read the word ABACUS from this triangular pattern?
3 Rings
Stage: 2 Challenge Level:
If you have three circular objects, you could arrange them so that they are separate, touching, overlapping or inside each other. Can you investigate all the different possibilities?
NRICH is part of the family of activities in the Millennium Mathematics Project.