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Carroll Diagrams
Age 5 to 11 Challenge Level:
Use the interactivities to fill in these Carroll diagrams. How do you know where to place the numbers?
Seeing Squares
Age 5 to 11 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.
Poly Plug Pattern
Age 5 to 7 Challenge Level:
Create a pattern on the left-hand grid. How could you extend your pattern on the right-hand grid?
All Change
Age 5 to 7 Challenge Level:
There are three versions of this challenge. The idea is to change the colour of all the spots on the grid. Can you do it in fewer throws of the dice?
Poly Plug Rectangles
Age 5 to 7 Challenge Level:
The computer has made a rectangle and will tell you the number of spots it uses in total. Can you find out where the rectangle is?
Light the Lights
Age 5 to 7 Challenge Level:
Investigate which numbers make these lights come on. What is the smallest number you can find that lights up all the lights?
Light the Lights Again
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
Each light in this interactivity turns on according to a rule. What happens when you enter different numbers? Can you find the smallest number that lights up all four lights?
I Like ...
Age 5 to 7 Challenge Level:
Mr Gilderdale is playing a game with his class. What rule might he have chosen? How would you test your idea?
Times Tables Shifts
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
In this activity, the computer chooses a times table and shifts it. Can you work out the table and the shift each time?
Coded Hundred Square
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
This 100 square jigsaw is written in code. It starts with 1 and ends with 100. Can you build it up?
Countdown
Age 7 to 14 Challenge Level:
Here is a chance to play a version of the classic Countdown Game.
Cops and Robbers
Age 7 to 16 Challenge Level:
Can you find a reliable strategy for choosing coordinates that will locate the robber in the minimum number of guesses?
Find the Difference
Age 5 to 7 Challenge Level:
Place the numbers 1 to 6 in the circles so that each number is the difference between the two numbers just below it.
Stop the Clock
Age 5 to 7 Challenge Level:
This is a game for two players. Can you find out how to be the first to get to 12 o'clock?
Tug of War
Age 5 to 7 Challenge Level:
Can you use the numbers on the dice to reach your end of the number line before your partner beats you?
First Connect Three
Age 7 to 14 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?
Overlapping Again
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
What shape is the overlap when you slide one of these shapes half way across another? Can you picture it in your head? Use the interactivity to check your visualisation.
Overlaps
Age 5 to 7 Challenge Level:
What does the overlap of these two shapes look like? Try picturing it in your head and then use the interactivity to test your prediction.
More Carroll Diagrams
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
How have the numbers been placed in this Carroll diagram? Which labels would you put on each row and column?
Getting the Balance
Age 5 to 7 Challenge Level:
If you hang two weights on one side of this balance, in how many different ways can you hang three weights on the other side for it to be balanced?
Turning
Age 5 to 7 Challenge Level:
Use your mouse to move the red and green parts of this disc. Can you make images which show the turnings described?
Inside Triangles
Age 5 to 7 Challenge Level:
How many different triangles can you draw on the dotty grid which each have one dot in the middle?
Matching Triangles
Age 5 to 7 Challenge Level:
Can you sort these triangles into three different families and explain how you did it?
Growing Garlic
Age 5 to 7 Challenge Level:
Ben and his mum are planting garlic. Use the interactivity to help you find out how many cloves of garlic they might have had.
Multiplication Square Jigsaw
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
Can you complete this jigsaw of the multiplication square?
Twice as Big?
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
Investigate how the four L-shapes fit together to make an enlarged L-shape. You could explore this idea with other shapes too.
Turning Man
Age 5 to 7 Challenge Level:
Use the interactivity to find out how many quarter turns the man must rotate through to look like each of the pictures.
Factors and Multiples Game
Age 7 to 16 Challenge Level:
A game in which players take it in turns to choose a number. Can you block your opponent?
Multiples Grid
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
What do the numbers shaded in blue on this hundred square have in common? What do you notice about the pink numbers? How about the shaded numbers in the other squares?
Sort the Street
Age 5 to 7 Challenge Level:
Sort the houses in my street into different groups. Can you do it in any other ways?
Sizing Them Up
Age 5 to 7 Challenge Level:
Can you put these shapes in order of size? Start with the smallest.
More Transformations on a Pegboard
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
Use the interactivity to find all the different right-angled triangles you can make by just moving one corner of the starting triangle.
Triangle Animals
Age 5 to 7 Challenge Level:
How many different ways can you find to join three equilateral triangles together? Can you convince us that you have found them all?
Are You Well Balanced?
Age 5 to 7 Challenge Level:
Can you work out how to balance this equaliser? You can put more than one weight on a hook.
Weighted Numbers
Age 5 to 7 Challenge Level:
Use the number weights to find different ways of balancing the equaliser.
Number Balance
Age 5 to 7 Challenge Level:
Can you hang weights in the right place to make the equaliser balance?
Cuisenaire Environment
Age 5 to 11 Challenge Level:
An environment which simulates working with Cuisenaire rods.
Same Length Trains
Age 5 to 7 Challenge Level:
How many trains can you make which are the same length as Matt's, using rods that are identical?
Complete the Square
Age 5 to 7 Challenge Level:
Complete the squares - but be warned some are trickier than they look!
Board Block Challenge
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
Choose the size of your pegboard and the shapes you can make. Can you work out the strategies needed to block your opponent?
Odds or Sixes?
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
Use the interactivity or play this dice game yourself. How could you make it fair?
Three Ball Line Up
Age 5 to 7 Challenge Level:
Use the interactivity to help get a feel for this problem and to find out all the possible ways the balls could land.
Nine-pin Triangles
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
How many different triangles can you make on a circular pegboard that has nine pegs?
Number Differences
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
Place the numbers from 1 to 9 in the squares below so that the difference between joined squares is odd. How many different ways can you do this?
