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Scoring with Dice
Age 7 to 11 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?
Being Resilient - Primary Number
Age 5 to 11 Challenge Level:
Number problems at primary level that may require resilience.
Zios and Zepts
Age 7 to 11 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?
Abundant Numbers
Age 7 to 11 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?
Being Collaborative - Primary Number
Age 5 to 11 Challenge Level:
Number problems at primary level to work on with others.
The Moons of Vuvv
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
The planet of Vuvv has seven moons. Can you work out how long it is between each super-eclipse?
Number Tracks
Age 7 to 11 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?
Making Pathways
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
Can you find different ways of creating paths using these paving slabs?
It Figures
Age 7 to 11 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?
Fitted
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
Nine squares with side lengths 1, 4, 7, 8, 9, 10, 14, 15, and 18 cm can be fitted together to form a rectangle. What are the dimensions of the rectangle?
In the Money
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
One quarter of these coins are heads but when I turn over two coins, one third are heads. How many coins are there?
Divide it Out
Age 7 to 11 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?
Ducking and Dividing
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
Your vessel, the Starship Diophantus, has become damaged in deep space. Can you use your knowledge of times tables and some lightning reflexes to survive?
Path to the Stars
Age 7 to 11 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?
Two Primes Make One Square
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
Can you make square numbers by adding two prime numbers together?
Multiplication Squares
Age 7 to 11 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.
A Mixed-up Clock
Age 7 to 11 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?
Sets of Numbers
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
How many different sets of numbers with at least four members can you find in the numbers in this box?
Sweets in a Box
Age 7 to 11 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?
Tom's Number
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
Work out Tom's number from the answers he gives his friend. He will only answer 'yes' or 'no'.
Round and Round the Circle
Age 7 to 11 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.
Mystery Matrix
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
Can you fill in this table square? The numbers 2 -12 were used to generate it with just one number used twice.
Sets of Four Numbers
Age 7 to 11 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?
What Two ...?
Age 7 to 11 Short Challenge Level:
56 406 is the product of two consecutive numbers. What are these two numbers?
Pebbles
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
Place four pebbles on the sand in the form of a square. Keep adding as few pebbles as necessary to double the area. How many extra pebbles are added each time?
Gran, How Old Are You?
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
When Charlie asked his grandmother how old she is, he didn't get a straightforward reply! Can you work out how old she is?
Surprising Split
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
Does this 'trick' for calculating multiples of 11 always work? Why or why not?
Ip Dip
Age 5 to 11 Challenge Level:
"Ip dip sky blue! Who's 'it'? It's you!" Where would you position yourself so that you are 'it' if there are two players? Three players ...?
Factor-multiple Chains
Age 7 to 11 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?
Give Me Four Clues
Age 7 to 11 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?
Multiply Multiples 3
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
Have a go at balancing this equation. Can you find different ways of doing it?
Multiply Multiples 2
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
Can you work out some different ways to balance this equation?
Fractions in a Box
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
The discs for this game are kept in a flat square box with a square hole for each. Use the information to find out how many discs of each colour there are in the box.
Multiply Multiples 1
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
Can you complete this calculation by filling in the missing numbers? In how many different ways can you do it?
Which Is Quicker?
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
Which is quicker, counting up to 30 in ones or counting up to 300 in tens? Why?
Adding All Nine
Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:
Make a set of numbers that use all the digits from 1 to 9, once and once only. Add them up. The result is divisible by 9. Add each of the digits in the new number. What is their sum? Now try some. . . .
Spelling Circle
Age 7 to 11 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.
Factor Track
Age 7 to 14 Challenge Level:
Factor track is not a race but a game of skill. The idea is to go round the track in as few moves as possible, keeping to the rules.
Curious Number
Age 7 to 11 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 Dice
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
Investigate the sum of the numbers on the top and bottom faces of a line of three dice. What do you notice?
Flashing Lights
Age 7 to 11 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?
Bracelets
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
Investigate the different shaped bracelets you could make from 18 different spherical beads. How do they compare if you use 24 beads?
Crossings
Age 7 to 11 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?
Money Measure
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
How can you use just one weighing to find out which box contains the lighter ten coins out of the ten boxes?
Which Numbers? (2)
Age 7 to 11 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)
Age 7 to 11 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?
Multiplication Series: Number Arrays
Age 5 to 11
This article for teachers describes how number arrays can be a useful reprentation for many number concepts.
One to Eight
Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:
Complete the following expressions so that each one gives a four digit number as the product of two two digit numbers and uses the digits 1 to 8 once and only once.
What's in the Box?
Age 7 to 11 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?
NRICH is part of the family of activities in the Millennium Mathematics Project.