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Sprouts
Age 7 to 18 Challenge Level:
A game for 2 people. Take turns joining two dots, until your opponent is unable to move.
Square It
Age 11 to 16 Challenge Level:
Players take it in turns to choose a dot on the grid. The winner is the first to have four dots that can be joined to form a square.
Khun Phaen Escapes to Freedom
Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:
Slide the pieces to move Khun Phaen past all the guards into the position on the right from which he can escape to freedom.
Instant Insanity
Age 11 to 18 Challenge Level:
Given the nets of 4 cubes with the faces coloured in 4 colours, build a tower so that on each vertical wall no colour is repeated, that is all 4 colours appear.
Endless Noughts and Crosses
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
An extension of noughts and crosses in which the grid is enlarged and the length of the winning line can to altered to 3, 4 or 5.
World of Tan 17 - Weather
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
Can you fit the tangram pieces into the outline of the house?
Picturing Triangular Numbers
Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:
Triangular numbers can be represented by a triangular array of squares. What do you notice about the sum of identical triangle numbers?
Thinking Through, and By, Visualising
Age 7 to 16
This article is based on some of the ideas that emerged during the production of a book which takes visualising as its focus. We began to identify problems which helped us to take a structured view. . . .
Cogs
Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:
A and B are two interlocking cogwheels having p teeth and q teeth respectively. One tooth on B is painted red. Find the values of p and q for which the red tooth on B contacts every gap on the. . . .
World of Tan 19 - A Circular Problem
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
Can you fit the tangram pieces into the outline of this teacup?
Counters
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
Hover your mouse over the counters to see which ones will be removed. Click to remove them. The winner is the last one to remove a counter. How you can make sure you win?
Triangles in the Middle
Age 11 to 18 Challenge Level:
This task depends on groups working collaboratively, discussing and reasoning to agree a final product.
Baravelle
Age 7 to 16 Challenge Level:
What can you see? What do you notice? What questions can you ask?
Tetrahedra Tester
Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:
An irregular tetrahedron is composed of four different triangles. Can such a tetrahedron be constructed where the side lengths are 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9 units of length?
Clocking Off
Age 7 to 16 Challenge Level:
I found these clocks in the Arts Centre at the University of Warwick intriguing - do they really need four clocks and what times would be ambiguous with only two or three of them?
World of Tan 29 - the Telephone
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
Can you fit the tangram pieces into the outline of the telephone?
World of Tan 21 - Almost There Now
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
Can you fit the tangram pieces into the outlines of the lobster, yacht and cyclist?
World of Tan 13 - A Storm in a Tea Cup
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
Can you fit the tangram pieces into the outlines of the convex shapes?
World of Tan 25 - Pentominoes
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
Can you fit the tangram pieces into the outlines of the people?
Counter Roundup
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
A game for 1 or 2 people. Use the interactive version, or play with friends. Try to round up as many counters as possible.
Travelling Salesman
Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:
A Hamiltonian circuit is a continuous path in a graph that passes through each of the vertices exactly once and returns to the start. How many Hamiltonian circuits can you find in these graphs?
Tourism
Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:
If you can copy a network without lifting your pen off the paper and without drawing any line twice, then it is traversable. Decide which of these diagrams are traversable.
Put Yourself in a Box
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
A game for 2 players. Given a board of dots in a grid pattern, players take turns drawing a line by connecting 2 adjacent dots. Your goal is to complete more squares than your opponent.
Dice, Routes and Pathways
Age 5 to 14
This article for teachers discusses examples of problems in which there is no obvious method but in which children can be encouraged to think deeply about the context and extend their ability to. . . .
The Path of the Dice
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
A game for 1 person. Can you work out how the dice must be rolled from the start position to the finish? Play on line.
World of Tan 16 - Time Flies
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
Can you fit the tangram pieces into the outline of the candle?
World of Tan 10 - Butterflies
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
Can you fit the tangram pieces into the outline of the butterfly?
Sliding Puzzle
Age 11 to 16 Challenge Level:
The aim of the game is to slide the green square from the top right hand corner to the bottom left hand corner in the least number of moves.
Icosian Game
Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:
This problem is about investigating whether it is possible to start at one vertex of a platonic solid and visit every other vertex once only returning to the vertex you started at.
World of Tan 20 - Fractions
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
Can you fit the tangram pieces into the outlines of the chairs?
World of Tan 12 - All in a Fluff
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
Can you fit the tangram pieces into the outlines of the rabbits?
World of Tan 11 - the Past, Present and Future
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
Can you fit the tangram pieces into the outlines of the telescope and microscope?
World of Tan 9 - Animals
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
Can you fit the tangram pieces into the outlines of the camel and giraffe?
World of Tan 30 - Logical Thinking
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
Can you logically construct these silhouettes using the tangram pieces?
Königsberg
Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:
Can you cross each of the seven bridges that join the north and south of the river to the two islands, once and once only, without retracing your steps?
World of Tan 15 - Millennia
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
Can you fit the tangram pieces into the outlines of the numbers?
World of Tan 14 - Celebrations
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
Can you fit the tangram pieces into the outlines of Little Ming and Little Fung dancing?
World of Tan 24 - Clocks
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
Can you fit the tangram pieces into the outline of the clock?
Seeing Squares for Two
Age 5 to 11 Challenge Level:
Seeing Squares game for an adult and child. Can you come up with a way of always winning this game?
World of Tan 22 - an Appealing Stroll
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
Can you fit the tangram pieces into the outline of the child walking home from school?
World of Tan 28 - Concentrating on Coordinates
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
Can you fit the tangram pieces into the outline of the playing piece?
World of Tan 18 - Soup
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
Can you fit the tangram pieces into the outlines of Mah Ling and Chi Wing?
World of Tan 27 - Sharing
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
Can you fit the tangram pieces into the outline of Little Fung at the table?
World of Tan 26 - Old Chestnut
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
Can you fit the tangram pieces into the outline of the brazier for roasting chestnuts?
Konigsberg Plus
Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:
Euler discussed whether or not it was possible to stroll around Koenigsberg crossing each of its seven bridges exactly once. Experiment with different numbers of islands and bridges.
Right or Left?
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
Which of these dice are right-handed and which are left-handed?
On the Edge
Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:
If you move the tiles around, can you make squares with different coloured edges?
Pattern Power
Age 5 to 14
Mathematics is the study of patterns. Studying pattern is an opportunity to observe, hypothesise, experiment, discover and create.
Cutting a Cube
Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:
A half-cube is cut into two pieces by a plane through the long diagonal and at right angles to it. Can you draw a net of these pieces? Are they identical?
NRICH is part of the family of activities in the Millennium Mathematics Project.