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What Do You Need?
Stage: 2 Challenge Level: 
Four of these clues are needed to find the chosen number on this grid and four are true but do nothing to help in finding the number. Can you sort out the clues and find the number?
Flashing Lights
Stage: 2 Challenge Level:
Norrie sees two lights flash at the same time, then one of them flashes every 4th second, and the other flashes every 5th second. How many times do they flash together during a whole minute?
Number Tracks
Stage: 2 Challenge Level:
Ben’s class were cutting up number tracks. First they cut them into twos and added up the numbers on each piece. What patterns could they see?
Being Determined - Primary Number
Stage: 1 and 2 Challenge Level:
Number problems at primary level that may require determination.
Crossings
Stage: 2 Challenge Level:
In this problem we are looking at sets of parallel sticks that cross each other. What is the least number of crossings you can make? And the greatest?
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?
Zios and Zepts
Stage: 2 Challenge Level:
On the planet Vuv there are two sorts of creatures. The Zios have 3 legs and the Zepts have 7 legs. The great planetary explorer Nico counted 52 legs. How many Zios and how many Zepts were there?
Factor-multiple Chains
Stage: 2 Challenge Level:
Can you see how these factor-multiple chains work? Find the chain which contains the smallest possible numbers. How about the largest possible numbers?
Becky's Number Plumber
Stage: 2 Challenge Level:
Becky created a number plumber which multiplies by 5 and subtracts 4. What do you notice about the numbers that it produces? Can you explain your findings?
Multiplication Series: Number Arrays
Stage: 1 and 2
This article for teachers describes how number arrays can be a useful reprentation for many number concepts.
Always, Sometimes or Never? Number
Stage: 2 Challenge Level:
Are these statements always true, sometimes true or never true?
Got it for Two
Stage: 2 Challenge Level:
Got It game for an adult and child. How can you play so that you know you will always win?
Multiplication Square Jigsaw
Stage: 2 Challenge Level:
Can you complete this jigsaw of the multiplication square?
Divide it Out
Stage: 2 Challenge Level:
What is the lowest number which always leaves a remainder of 1 when divided by each of the numbers from 2 to 10?
Multiply Multiples 3
Stage: 2 Challenge Level:
Have a go at balancing this equation. Can you find different ways of doing it?
Hot Pursuit
Stage: 3 Challenge Level:
The sum of the first 'n' natural numbers is a 3 digit number in which all the digits are the same. How many numbers have been summed?
Scoring with Dice
Stage: 2 Challenge Level:
I throw three dice and get 5, 3 and 2. Add the scores on the three dice. What do you get? Now multiply the scores. What do you notice?
A Mixed-up Clock
Stage: 2 Challenge Level:
There is a clock-face where the numbers have become all mixed up. Can you find out where all the numbers have got to from these ten statements?
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.
Tom's Number
Stage: 2 Challenge Level:
Work out Tom's number from the answers he gives his friend. He will only answer 'yes' or 'no'.
Red Balloons, Blue Balloons
Stage: 2 Challenge Level:
Katie and Will have some balloons. Will's balloon burst at exactly the same size as Katie's at the beginning of a puff. How many puffs had Will done before his balloon burst?
Spelling Circle
Stage: 2 Challenge Level:
Find the words hidden inside each of the circles by counting around a certain number of spaces to find each letter in turn.
Eminit
Stage: 3 Challenge Level:
The number 8888...88M9999...99 is divisible by 7 and it starts with the digit 8 repeated 50 times and ends with the digit 9 repeated 50 times. What is the value of the digit M?
Biscuit Decorations
Stage: 1 and 2 Challenge Level:
Andrew decorated 20 biscuits to take to a party. He lined them up and put icing on every second biscuit and different decorations on other biscuits. How many biscuits weren't decorated?
Give Me Four Clues
Stage: 2 Challenge Level:
Four of these clues are needed to find the chosen number on this grid and four are true but do nothing to help in finding the number. Can you sort out the clues and find the number?
Which Is Quicker?
Stage: 2 Challenge Level:
Which is quicker, counting up to 30 in ones or counting up to 300 in tens? Why?
Tiling
Stage: 2 Challenge Level:
An investigation that gives you the opportunity to make and justify predictions.
Three Spinners
Stage: 2 Challenge Level:
These red, yellow and blue spinners were each spun 45 times in total. Can you work out which numbers are on each spinner?
Which Numbers? (1)
Stage: 2 Challenge Level:
I am thinking of three sets of numbers less than 101. They are the red set, the green set and the blue set. Can you find all the numbers in the sets from these clues?
Which Numbers? (2)
Stage: 2 Challenge Level:
I am thinking of three sets of numbers less than 101. Can you find all the numbers in each set from these clues?
Exploring Simple Mappings
Stage: 3 Challenge Level:
Explore the relationship between simple linear functions and their graphs.
Curious Number
Stage: 2 Challenge Level:
Can you order the digits from 1-3 to make a number which is divisible by 3 so when the last digit is removed it becomes a 2-figure number divisible by 2, and so on?
Being Collaborative - Primary Number
Stage: 1 and 2 Challenge Level:
Number problems at primary level to work on with others.
Three Neighbours
Stage: 2 Challenge Level:
Look at three 'next door neighbours' amongst the counting numbers. Add them together. What do you notice?
Odds and Threes
Stage: 2 Challenge Level:
A game for 2 people using a pack of cards Turn over 2 cards and try to make an odd number or a multiple of 3.
Multiply Multiples 2
Stage: 2 Challenge Level:
Can you work out some different ways to balance this equation?
Down to Nothing
Stage: 2 Challenge Level:
A game for 2 or more people. Starting with 100, subratct a number from 1 to 9 from the total. You score for making an odd number, a number ending in 0 or a multiple of 6.
Money Measure
Stage: 2 Challenge Level:
How can you use just one weighing to find out which box contains the lighter ten coins out of the ten boxes?
Multiply Multiples 1
Stage: 2 Challenge Level:
Can you complete this calculation by filling in the missing numbers? In how many different ways can you do it?
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?
Three Dice
Stage: 2 Challenge Level:
Investigate the sum of the numbers on the top and bottom faces of a line of three dice. What do you notice?
Factor Lines
Stage: 2 and 3 Challenge Level:
Arrange the four number cards on the grid, according to the rules, to make a diagonal, vertical or horizontal line.
What Two ...?
Stage: 2 Short Challenge Level:
56 406 is the product of two consecutive numbers. What are these two numbers?
Path to the Stars
Stage: 2 Challenge Level:
Is it possible to draw a 5-pointed star without taking your pencil off the paper? Is it possible to draw a 6-pointed star in the same way without taking your pen off?
Graphing Number Patterns
Stage: 2 Challenge Level:
Does a graph of the triangular numbers cross a graph of the six times table? If so, where? Will a graph of the square numbers cross the times table too?
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?
What's in the Box?
Stage: 2 Challenge Level:
This big box multiplies anything that goes inside it by the same number. If you know the numbers that come out, what multiplication might be going on in the box?
Remainders
Stage: 3 Challenge Level:
I'm thinking of a number. When my number is divided by 5 the remainder is 4. When my number is divided by 3 the remainder is 2. Can you find my number?
NRICH is part of the family of activities in the Millennium Mathematics Project.