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Making Cuboids
Stage: 2 Challenge Level: 
Let's say you can only use two different lengths - 2 units and 4 units. Using just these 2 lengths as the edges how many different cuboids can you make?
Cuboid-in-a-box
Stage: 2 Challenge Level:
What is the smallest cuboid that you can put in this box so that you cannot fit another that's the same into it?
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?
Newspapers
Stage: 2 Challenge Level:
When newspaper pages get separated at home we have to try to sort them out and get things in the correct order. How many ways can we arrange these pages so that the numbering may be different?
Brush Loads
Stage: 2 Challenge Level:
How can you arrange the 5 cubes so that you need the smallest number of Brush Loads of paint to cover them? Try with other numbers of cubes as well.
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?
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?
Room Doubling
Stage: 2 Challenge Level:
Investigate the different ways you could split up these rooms so that you have double the number.
Watch Your Feet
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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?
Three Sets of Cubes, Two Surfaces
Stage: 2 Challenge Level:
How many models can you find which obey these rules?
Building with Rods
Stage: 2 Challenge Level:
In how many ways can you stack these rods, following the rules?
Sticks and Triangles
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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?
Cubes Here and There
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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?
Two by One
Stage: 2 Challenge Level:
An activity making various patterns with 2 x 1 rectangular tiles.
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.
Two on Five
Stage: 1 and 2 Challenge Level:
Take 5 cubes of one colour and 2 of another colour. How many different ways can you join them if the 5 must touch the table and the 2 must not touch the table?
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.
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?
Little Boxes
Stage: 2 Challenge Level:
How many different cuboids can you make when you use four CDs or DVDs? How about using five, then six?
Double Your Popcorn, Double Your Pleasure
Stage: 2 Challenge Level:
We went to the cinema and decided to buy some bags of popcorn so we asked about the prices. Investigate how much popcorn each bag holds so find out which we might have bought.
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?
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?
It's All about 64
Stage: 2 Challenge Level:
Write the numbers up to 64 in an interesting way so that the shape they make at the end is interesting, different, more exciting ... than just a square.
Making Squares
Stage: 2
Investigate all the different squares you can make on this 5 by 5 grid by making your starting side go from the bottom left hand point. Can you find out the areas of all these squares?
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.
Christmas Presents
Stage: 2 Challenge Level:
We need to wrap up this cube-shaped present, remembering that we can have no overlaps. What shapes can you find to use?
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?
More Transformations on a Pegboard
Stage: 2 Challenge Level:
Use the interactivity to find all the different right-angled triangles you can make by just moving one corner of the starting triangle.
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?
Hexpentas
Stage: 1 and 2 Challenge Level:
How many different ways can you find of fitting five hexagons together? How will you know you have found all the ways?
Plants
Stage: 1 and 2 Challenge Level:
Three children are going to buy some plants for their birthdays. They will plant them within circular paths. How could they do this?
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?
New House
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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?
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.
Sweets in a Box
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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?
The Pied Piper of Hamelin
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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!
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?
Worms
Stage: 2 Challenge Level:
Place this "worm" on the 100 square and find the total of the four squares it covers. Keeping its head in the same place, what other totals can you make?
Lost Books
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While we were sorting some papers we found 3 strange sheets which seemed to come from small books but there were page numbers at the foot of each page. Did the pages come from the same book?
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?
Escher Tessellations
Stage: 2 Challenge Level:
This practical investigation invites you to make tessellating shapes in a similar way to the artist Escher.
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.
Cutting Corners
Stage: 2 Challenge Level:
Can you make the most extraordinary, the most amazing, the most unusual patterns/designs from these triangles which are made in a special way?
Street Sequences
Stage: 1 and 2 Challenge Level:
Investigate what happens when you add house numbers along a street in different ways.
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?
Teddy Town
Stage: 1, 2 and 3 Challenge Level:
There are nine teddies in Teddy Town - three red, three blue and three yellow. There are also nine houses, three of each colour. Can you put them on the map of Teddy Town according to the rules?
Sticky Triangles
Stage: 2 Challenge Level:
Can you continue this pattern of triangles and begin to predict how many sticks are used for each new "layer"?
NRICH is part of the family of activities in the Millennium Mathematics Project.