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Football Sum
Stage: 3 Challenge Level: 
Find the values of the nine letters in the sum: FOOT + BALL = GAME
Cayley
Stage: 3 Challenge Level:
The letters in the following addition sum represent the digits 1 ... 9. If A=3 and D=2, what number is represented by "CAYLEY"?
Making Maths: Double-sided Magic Square
Stage: 2 and 3 Challenge Level:
Make your own double-sided magic square. But can you complete both sides once you've made the pieces?
Pair Sums
Stage: 3 Challenge Level:
Five numbers added together in pairs produce: 0, 2, 4, 4, 6, 8, 9, 11, 13, 15 What are the five numbers?
First Connect Three for Two
Stage: 2 and 3 Challenge Level:
First Connect Three game for an adult and child. Use the dice numbers and either addition or subtraction to get three numbers in a straight line.
Adding and Subtracting Positive and Negative Numbers
Stage: 3
How can we help students make sense of addition and subtraction of negative numbers?
Got it Article
Stage: 2 and 3
This article gives you a few ideas for understanding the Got It! game and how you might find a winning strategy.
Reach 100
Stage: 2 and 3 Challenge Level:
Choose four different digits from 1-9 and put one in each box so that the resulting four two-digit numbers add to a total of 100.
Making Sense of Positives and Negatives
Stage: 3
This article suggests some ways of making sense of calculations involving positive and negative numbers.
Weights
Stage: 3 Challenge Level:
Different combinations of the weights available allow you to make different totals. Which totals can you make?
First Connect Three
Stage: 2 and 3 Challenge Level:
The idea of this game is to add or subtract the two numbers on the dice and cover the result on the grid, trying to get a line of three. Are there some numbers that are good to aim for?
Number Pyramids
Stage: 3 Challenge Level:
Try entering different sets of numbers in the number pyramids. How does the total at the top change?
Consecutive Negative Numbers
Stage: 3 Challenge Level:
Do you notice anything about the solutions when you add and/or subtract consecutive negative numbers?
Score
Stage: 3 Challenge Level:
There are exactly 3 ways to add 4 odd numbers to get 10. Find all the ways of adding 8 odd numbers to get 20. To be sure of getting all the solutions you will need to be systematic. What about. . . .
Multiply the Addition Square
Stage: 3 Challenge Level:
If you take a three by three square on a 1-10 addition square and multiply the diagonally opposite numbers together, what is the difference between these products. Why?
Nice or Nasty
Stage: 2 and 3 Challenge Level:
There are nasty versions of this dice game but we'll start with the nice ones...
Consecutive Numbers
Stage: 2 and 3 Challenge Level:
An investigation involving adding and subtracting sets of consecutive numbers. Lots to find out, lots to explore.
Two and Two
Stage: 3 Challenge Level:
How many solutions can you find to this sum? Each of the different letters stands for a different number.
Countdown
Stage: 2 and 3 Challenge Level:
Here is a chance to play a version of the classic Countdown Game.
More Plant Spaces
Stage: 2 and 3 Challenge Level:
This challenging activity involves finding different ways to distribute fifteen items among four sets, when the sets must include three, four, five and six items.
More Children and Plants
Stage: 2 and 3 Challenge Level:
This challenge extends the Plants investigation so now four or more children are involved.
Have You Got It?
Stage: 3 Challenge Level:
Can you explain the strategy for winning this game with any target?
Arrange the Digits
Stage: 3 Challenge Level:
Can you arrange the digits 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9 into three 3-digit numbers such that their total is close to 1500?
Cubes Within Cubes
Stage: 2 and 3 Challenge Level:
We start with one yellow cube and build around it to make a 3x3x3 cube with red cubes. Then we build around that red cube with blue cubes and so on. How many cubes of each colour have we used?
Pole Star Sudoku 2
Stage: 3 and 4 Challenge Level:
This Sudoku, based on differences. Using the one clue number can you find the solution?
Crossed Ends
Stage: 3 Challenge Level:
Crosses can be drawn on number grids of various sizes. What do you notice when you add opposite ends?
And So on and So On
Stage: 3 Challenge Level:
If you wrote all the possible four digit numbers made by using each of the digits 2, 4, 5, 7 once, what would they add up to?
Number Daisy
Stage: 3 Challenge Level:
Can you find six numbers to go in the Daisy from which you can make all the numbers from 1 to a number bigger than 25?
The Patent Solution
Stage: 3 Challenge Level:
A combination mechanism for a safe comprises thirty-two tumblers numbered from one to thirty-two in such a way that the numbers in each wheel total 132... Could you open the safe?
As Easy as 1,2,3
Stage: 3 Challenge Level:
When I type a sequence of letters my calculator gives the product of all the numbers in the corresponding memories. What numbers should I store so that when I type 'ONE' it returns 1, and when I type. . . .
Cunning Card Trick
Stage: 3 Challenge Level:
Delight your friends with this cunning trick! Can you explain how it works?
Digit Sum
Stage: 3 Challenge Level:
What is the sum of all the digits in all the integers from one to one million?
Make 37
Stage: 2 and 3 Challenge Level:
Four bags contain a large number of 1s, 3s, 5s and 7s. Pick any ten numbers from the bags above so that their total is 37.
An Introduction to Magic Squares
Stage: 1, 2, 3 and 4
Find out about Magic Squares in this article written for students. Why are they magic?!
Alphabet Soup
Stage: 3 Challenge Level:
This challenge is to make up YOUR OWN alphanumeric. Each letter represents a digit and where the same letter appears more than once it must represent the same digit each time.
Top-heavy Pyramids
Stage: 3 Challenge Level:
Use the numbers in the box below to make the base of a top-heavy pyramid whose top number is 200.
Countdown Fractions
Stage: 3 and 4 Challenge Level:
Here is a chance to play a fractions version of the classic Countdown Game.
Clocked
Stage: 3 Challenge Level:
Is it possible to rearrange the numbers 1,2......12 around a clock face in such a way that every two numbers in adjacent positions differ by any of 3, 4 or 5 hours?
Got It
Stage: 2 and 3 Challenge Level:
A game for two people, or play online. Given a target number, say 23, and a range of numbers to choose from, say 1-4, players take it in turns to add to the running total to hit their target.
Always the Same
Stage: 3 Challenge Level:
Arrange the numbers 1 to 16 into a 4 by 4 array. Choose a number. Cross out the numbers on the same row and column. Repeat this process. Add up you four numbers. Why do they always add up to 34?
Chameleons
Stage: 3 Challenge Level:
Whenever two chameleons of different colours meet they change colour to the third colour. Describe the shortest sequence of meetings in which all the chameleons change to green if you start with 12. . . .
Aba
Stage: 3 Challenge Level:
In the following sum the letters A, B, C, D, E and F stand for six distinct digits. Find all the ways of replacing the letters with digits so that the arithmetic is correct.
Pairs
Stage: 3 Challenge Level:
Ann thought of 5 numbers and told Bob all the sums that could be made by adding the numbers in pairs. The list of sums is 6, 7, 8, 8, 9, 9, 10,10, 11, 12. Help Bob to find out which numbers Ann was. . . .
3388
Stage: 3 Challenge Level:
Using some or all of the operations of addition, subtraction, multiplication and division and using the digits 3, 3, 8 and 8 each once and only once make an expression equal to 24.
Constellation Sudoku
Stage: 4 and 5 Challenge Level:
Special clue numbers related to the difference between numbers in two adjacent cells and values of the stars in the "constellation" make this a doubly interesting problem.
Tis Unique
Stage: 3 Challenge Level:
This addition sum uses all ten digits 0, 1, 2...9 exactly once. Find the sum and show that the one you give is the only possibility.
NRICH is part of the family of activities in the Millennium Mathematics Project.