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Magic Potting Sheds
Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:
Mr McGregor has a magic potting shed. Overnight, the number of plants in it doubles. He'd like to put the same number of plants in each of three gardens, planting one garden each day. Can he do it?
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?
More Magic Potting Sheds
Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:
The number of plants in Mr McGregor's magic potting shed increases overnight. He'd like to put the same number of plants in each of his gardens, planting one garden each day. How can he do it?
Partitioning Revisited
Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:
We can show that (x + 1)² = x² + 2x + 1 by considering the area of an (x + 1) by (x + 1) square. Show in a similar way that (x + 2)² = x² + 4x + 4
Cogs
Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:
A and B are two interlocking cogwheels having p teeth and q teeth respectively. One tooth on B is painted red. Find the values of p and q for which the red tooth on B contacts every gap on the. . . .
Number Pyramids
Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:
Try entering different sets of numbers in the number pyramids. How does the total at the top change?
Got it Article
Age 7 to 14
This article gives you a few ideas for understanding the Got It! game and how you might find a winning strategy.
Have You Got It?
Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:
Can you explain the strategy for winning this game with any target?
Olympic Magic
Age 14 to 16 Challenge Level:
in how many ways can you place the numbers 1, 2, 3 … 9 in the nine regions of the Olympic Emblem (5 overlapping circles) so that the amount in each ring is the same?
Countdown
Age 7 to 14 Challenge Level:
Here is a chance to play a version of the classic Countdown Game.
Ratio Pairs 3
Age 11 to 16 Challenge Level:
Match pairs of cards so that they have equivalent ratios.
Nim-interactive
Age 11 to 16 Challenge Level:
Start with any number of counters in any number of piles. 2 players take it in turns to remove any number of counters from a single pile. The winner is the player to take the last counter.
Khun Phaen Escapes to Freedom
Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:
Slide the pieces to move Khun Phaen past all the guards into the position on the right from which he can escape to freedom.
Disappearing Square
Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:
Do you know how to find the area of a triangle? You can count the squares. What happens if we turn the triangle on end? Press the button and see. Try counting the number of units in the triangle now. . . .
Cubic Net
Age 14 to 18 Challenge Level:
This is an interactive net of a Rubik's cube. Twists of the 3D cube become mixes of the squares on the 2D net. Have a play and see how many scrambles you can undo!
Jam
Age 14 to 16 Challenge Level:
To avoid losing think of another very well known game where the patterns of play are similar.
Countdown Fractions
Age 11 to 16 Challenge Level:
Here is a chance to play a fractions version of the classic Countdown Game.
Icosian Game
Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:
This problem is about investigating whether it is possible to start at one vertex of a platonic solid and visit every other vertex once only returning to the vertex you started at.
When Will You Pay Me? Say the Bells of Old Bailey
Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:
Use the interactivity to play two of the bells in a pattern. How do you know when it is your turn to ring, and how do you know which bell to ring?
Diagonal Dodge
Age 7 to 14 Challenge Level:
A game for 2 players. Can be played online. One player has 1 red counter, the other has 4 blue. The red counter needs to reach the other side, and the blue needs to trap the red.
Sliding Puzzle
Age 11 to 16 Challenge Level:
The aim of the game is to slide the green square from the top right hand corner to the bottom left hand corner in the least number of moves.
Magic W
Age 14 to 16 Challenge Level:
Find all the ways of placing the numbers 1 to 9 on a W shape, with 3 numbers on each leg, so that each set of 3 numbers has the same total.
Factor Lines
Age 7 to 14 Challenge Level:
Arrange the four number cards on the grid, according to the rules, to make a diagonal, vertical or horizontal line.
Square It
Age 11 to 16 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.
Inside Out
Age 14 to 16 Challenge Level:
There are 27 small cubes in a 3 x 3 x 3 cube, 54 faces being visible at any one time. Is it possible to reorganise these cubes so that by dipping the large cube into a pot of paint three times you. . . .
You Owe Me Five Farthings, Say the Bells of St Martin's
Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:
Use the interactivity to listen to the bells ringing a pattern. Now it's your turn! Play one of the bells yourself. How do you know when it is your turn to ring?
Lost on Alpha Prime
Age 14 to 16 Challenge Level:
On the 3D grid a strange (and deadly) animal is lurking. Using the tracking system can you locate this creature as quickly as possible?
Napier's Location Arithmetic
Age 14 to 16 Challenge Level:
Have you seen this way of doing multiplication ?
Changing Places
Age 14 to 16 Challenge Level:
Place a red counter in the top left corner of a 4x4 array, which is covered by 14 other smaller counters, leaving a gap in the bottom right hand corner (HOME). What is the smallest number of moves. . . .
Shear Magic
Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:
What are the areas of these triangles? What do you notice? Can you generalise to other "families" of triangles?
Conway's Chequerboard Army
Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:
Here is a solitaire type environment for you to experiment with. Which targets can you reach?
Picturing Triangular Numbers
Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:
Triangular numbers can be represented by a triangular array of squares. What do you notice about the sum of identical triangle numbers?
Colour in the Square
Age 7 to 16 Challenge Level:
Can you put the 25 coloured tiles into the 5 x 5 square so that no column, no row and no diagonal line have tiles of the same colour in them?
Just Rolling Round
Age 14 to 16 Challenge Level:
P is a point on the circumference of a circle radius r which rolls, without slipping, inside a circle of radius 2r. What is the locus of P?
More Number Pyramids
Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:
When number pyramids have a sequence on the bottom layer, some interesting patterns emerge...
Teddy Town
Age 5 to 14 Challenge Level:
There are nine teddies in Teddy Town - three red, three blue and three yellow. There are also nine houses, three of each colour. Can you put them on the map of Teddy Town according to the rules?
Instant Insanity
Age 11 to 18 Challenge Level:
Given the nets of 4 cubes with the faces coloured in 4 colours, build a tower so that on each vertical wall no colour is repeated, that is all 4 colours appear.
A Tilted Square
Age 14 to 16 Challenge Level:
The opposite vertices of a square have coordinates (a,b) and (c,d). What are the coordinates of the other vertices?
Excel Interactive Resource: Interactive Division
Age 11 to 16 Challenge Level:
Use an Excel to investigate division. Explore the relationships between the process elements using an interactive spreadsheet.
Tilting Triangles
Age 14 to 16 Challenge Level:
A right-angled isosceles triangle is rotated about the centre point of a square. What can you say about the area of the part of the square covered by the triangle as it rotates?
Excel Interactive Resource: Fraction Multiplication
Age 11 to 16 Challenge Level:
Use Excel to explore multiplication of fractions.
Card Game (a Simple Version of Clock Patience)
Age 14 to 16 Challenge Level:
Four cards are shuffled and placed into two piles of two. Starting with the first pile of cards - turn a card over... You win if all your cards end up in the trays before you run out of cards in. . . .
Balancing 1
Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:
Meg and Mo need to hang their marbles so that they balance. Use the interactivity to experiment and find out what they need to do.
Fifteen
Age 7 to 14 Challenge Level:
Can you spot the similarities between this game and other games you know? The aim is to choose 3 numbers that total 15.
Simple Counting Machine
Age 11 to 16 Challenge Level:
Can you set the logic gates so that the number of bulbs which are on is the same as the number of switches which are on?
NRICH is part of the family of activities in the Millennium Mathematics Project.