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Perimeter Possibilities
Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:
I'm thinking of a rectangle with an area of 24. What could its perimeter be?
Seven Squares
Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:
Watch these videos to see how Phoebe, Alice and Luke chose to draw 7 squares. How would they draw 100?
Twisting and Turning
Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:
Take a look at the video and try to find a sequence of moves that will untangle the ropes.
Method in Multiplying Madness?
Age 7 to 14 Challenge Level:
Watch our videos of multiplication methods that you may not have met before. Can you make sense of them?
Seven Squares - Group-worthy Task
Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:
Choose a couple of the sequences. Try to picture how to make the next, and the next, and the next... Can you describe your reasoning?
Take Three from Five
Age 14 to 16 Challenge Level:
Caroline and James pick sets of five numbers. Charlie chooses three of them that add together to make a multiple of three. Can they stop him?
Beelines
Age 14 to 16 Challenge Level:
Is there a relationship between the coordinates of the endpoints of a line and the number of grid squares it crosses?
Summing Consecutive Numbers
Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:
15 = 7 + 8 and 10 = 1 + 2 + 3 + 4. Can you say which numbers can be expressed as the sum of two or more consecutive integers?
Up, Down, Flying Around
Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:
Play this game to learn about adding and subtracting positive and negative numbers
Strange Bank Account
Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:
Imagine a very strange bank account where you are only allowed to do two things...
A Brief Introduction to Complex Numbers
Age 14 to 18 Challenge Level:
In this problem, we define complex numbers and invite you to explore what happens when you add and multiply them.
Sorted
Age 14 to 18 Challenge Level:
How can you quickly sort a suit of cards in order from Ace to King?
James's Code Challenge
Age 7 to 18 Challenge Level:
The Enigma Project's James Grime has created a video code challenge. Watch it here!
Constructing Triangles
Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:
Generate three random numbers to determine the side lengths of a triangle. What triangles can you draw?
Summing Geometric Progressions
Age 14 to 18 Challenge Level:
Watch the video to see how to sum the sequence. Can you adapt the method to sum other sequences?
Factorising with Multilink
Age 14 to 16 Challenge Level:
Can you find out what is special about the dimensions of rectangles you can make with squares, sticks and units?
Helicopters
Age 7 to 16 Challenge Level:
Design and test a paper helicopter. What is the best design?
Always a Multiple?
Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:
Think of a two digit number, reverse the digits, and add the numbers together. Something special happens...
Introduction to Number Plumber
Age 7 to 18 Challenge Level:
Video showing how to use the Number Plumber
Turning the Place Over
Age 11 to 18 Challenge Level:
As part of Liverpool08 European Capital of Culture there were a huge number of events and displays. One of the art installations was called "Turning the Place Over". Can you find our how it works?
Drawing Celtic Knots
Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:
Here is a chance to create some Celtic knots and explore the mathematics behind them.
Kingsfield School - Building on Rich Starting Points
Age 5 to 18
Alf and Tracy explain how the Kingsfield School maths department use common tasks to encourage all students to think mathematically about key areas in the curriculum.
Plaited Origami Polyhedra
Age 7 to 16 Challenge Level:
These models have appeared around the Centre for Mathematical Sciences. Perhaps you would like to try to make some similar models of your own.
Slick Summing
Age 14 to 16 Challenge Level:
Watch the video to see how Charlie works out the sum. Can you adapt his method?
Power Countdown
Age 14 to 16 Challenge Level:
In this twist on the well-known Countdown numbers game, use your knowledge of Powers and Roots to make a target.
Air Nets
Age 7 to 18 Challenge Level:
Can you visualise whether these nets fold up into 3D shapes? Watch the videos each time to see if you were correct.
Turning Tangles
Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:
Look carefully at the video of a tangle and explain what's happening.
ACE, TWO, THREE...
Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:
Can you picture how to order the cards to reproduce Charlie's card trick for yourself?
Symmetric Tangles
Age 14 to 16
The tangles created by the twists and turns of the Conway rope trick are surprisingly symmetrical. Here's why!
The Best Card Trick?
Age 11 to 16 Challenge Level:
Time for a little mathemagic! Choose any five cards from a pack and show four of them to your partner. How can they work out the fifth?
Frogs
Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:
How many moves does it take to swap over some red and blue frogs? Do you have a method?
Cyclic Quad Jigsaw
Age 14 to 16 Challenge Level:
A picture is made by joining five small quadrilaterals together to make a large quadrilateral. Is it possible to draw a similar picture if all the small quadrilaterals are cyclic?
