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Comparing and Ordering numbers. Working systematically. Factors and multiples. Multiplication & division. Digit cards. Interactivities. Odd and even numbers. Generalising. Place value. Addition & subtraction.There are 144 results
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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?
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?
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.
Which Is Quicker?
Stage: 2 Challenge Level:
Which is quicker, counting up to 30 in ones or counting up to 300 in tens? Why?
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?
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?
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?
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?
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?
What Two ...?
Stage: 2 Short Challenge Level:
56 406 is the product of two consecutive numbers. What are these two numbers?
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?
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?
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.
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'.
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?
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?
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?
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?
Three Neighbours
Stage: 2 Challenge Level:
Look at three 'next door neighbours' amongst the counting numbers. Add them together. What do you notice?
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?
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?
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?
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.
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?
Being Resilient - Primary Number
Stage: 1 and 2 Challenge Level:
Number problems at primary level that may require resilience.
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?
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.
The Moons of Vuvv
Stage: 2 Challenge Level:
The planet of Vuvv has seven moons. Can you work out how long it is between each super-eclipse?
Mystery Matrix
Stage: 2 Challenge Level:
Can you fill in this table square? The numbers 2 -12 were used to generate it with just one number used twice.
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?
Making Pathways
Stage: 2 Challenge Level:
Can you find different ways of creating paths using these paving slabs?
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?
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?
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?
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?
A First Product Sudoku
Stage: 3 Challenge Level:
Given the products of adjacent cells, can you complete this Sudoku?
Table Patterns Go Wild!
Stage: 2 Challenge Level:
Nearly all of us have made table patterns on hundred squares, that is 10 by 10 grids. This problem looks at the patterns on differently sized square grids.
A Dotty Problem
Stage: 2 Challenge Level:
Starting with the number 180, take away 9 again and again, joining up the dots as you go. Watch out - don't join all the dots!
Have You Got It?
Stage: 3 Challenge Level:
Can you explain the strategy for winning this game with any target?
Seven Flipped
Stage: 2 Challenge Level:
Investigate the smallest number of moves it takes to turn these mats upside-down if you can only turn exactly three at a time.
Neighbours
Stage: 2 Challenge Level:
In a square in which the houses are evenly spaced, numbers 3 and 10 are opposite each other. What is the smallest and what is the largest possible number of houses in the square?
How Old Are the Children?
Stage: 3 Challenge Level:
A student in a maths class was trying to get some information from her teacher. She was given some clues and then the teacher ended by saying, "Well, how old are they?"
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?
Multiplication Squares
Stage: 2 Challenge Level:
Can you work out the arrangement of the digits in the square so that the given products are correct? The numbers 1 - 9 may be used once and once only.
Add the Weights
Stage: 2 Challenge Level:
If you have only four weights, where could you place them in order to balance this equaliser?
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?
Repeaters
Stage: 3 Challenge Level:
Choose any 3 digits and make a 6 digit number by repeating the 3 digits in the same order (e.g. 594594). Explain why whatever digits you choose the number will always be divisible by 7, 11 and 13.
Being Collaborative - Primary Number
Stage: 1 and 2 Challenge Level:
Number problems at primary level to work on with others.
NRICH is part of the family of activities in the Millennium Mathematics Project.