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The Thousands Game
Stage: 2 Challenge Level: 
Each child in Class 3 took four numbers out of the bag. Who had made the highest even number?
Four-digit Targets
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You have two sets of the digits 0 – 9. Can you arrange these in the five boxes to make four-digit numbers as close to the target numbers as possible?
Song Book
Stage: 2 Challenge Level:
A school song book contains 700 songs. The numbers of the songs are displayed by combining special small single-digit boards. What is the minimum number of small boards that is needed?
Becky's Number Plumber
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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?
Which Scripts?
Stage: 2 Challenge Level:
There are six numbers written in five different scripts. Can you sort out which is which?
(w)holy Numbers
Stage: 2 Challenge Level:
A church hymn book contains 700 hymns. The numbers of the hymns are displayed by combining special small single-digit boards. What is the minimum number of small boards that is needed?
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?
That Number Square!
Stage: 1 and 2 Challenge Level:
Exploring the structure of a number square: how quickly can you put the number tiles in the right place on the grid?
Being Curious - Primary Number
Stage: 1 and 2 Challenge Level:
Number problems for inquiring primary learners.
All the Digits
Stage: 2 Challenge Level:
This multiplication uses each of the digits 0 - 9 once and once only. Using the information given, can you replace the stars in the calculation with figures?
The Deca Tree
Stage: 2 Challenge Level:
Find out what a Deca Tree is and then work out how many leaves there will be after the woodcutter has cut off a trunk, a branch, a twig and a leaf.
Napier's Bones
Stage: 2 Challenge Level:
The Scot, John Napier, invented these strips about 400 years ago to help calculate multiplication and division. Can you work out how to use Napier's bones to find the answer to these multiplications?
Being Determined - Primary Number
Stage: 1 and 2 Challenge Level:
Number problems at primary level that may require determination.
Snail One Hundred
Stage: 1 and 2 Challenge Level:
This is a game in which your counters move in a spiral round the snail's shell. It is about understanding tens and units.
Being Thoughtful - Primary Number
Stage: 1 and 2 Challenge Level:
Number problems at primary level that require careful consideration.
Round the Dice Decimals 1
Stage: 2 Challenge Level:
Use two dice to generate two numbers with one decimal place. What happens when you round these numbers to the nearest whole number?
Digit Sum
Stage: 3 Challenge Level:
What is the sum of all the digits in all the integers from one to one million?
Nice or Nasty for Two
Stage: 2 Challenge Level:
Some Games That May Be Nice or Nasty for an adult and child. Use your knowledge of place value to beat your opponent.
Multiply Multiples 3
Stage: 2 Challenge Level:
Have a go at balancing this equation. Can you find different ways of doing it?
Trebling
Stage: 2 Challenge Level:
Can you replace the letters with numbers? Is there only one solution in each case?
Diagonal Sums
Stage: 2 Challenge Level:
In this 100 square, look at the green square which contains the numbers 2, 3, 12 and 13. What is the sum of the numbers that are diagonally opposite each other? What do you notice?
Round the Four Dice
Stage: 2 Challenge Level:
This activity involves rounding four-digit numbers to the nearest thousand.
Multiply Multiples 1
Stage: 2 Challenge Level:
Can you complete this calculation by filling in the missing numbers? In how many different ways can you do it?
Exploring Simple Mappings
Stage: 3 Challenge Level:
Explore the relationship between simple linear functions and their graphs.
Being Collaborative - Primary Number
Stage: 1 and 2 Challenge Level:
Number problems at primary level to work on with others.
Multiply Multiples 2
Stage: 2 Challenge Level:
Can you work out some different ways to balance this equation?
Round the Three Dice
Stage: 2 Challenge Level:
What happens when you round these three-digit numbers to the nearest 100?
Which Is Quicker?
Stage: 2 Challenge Level:
Which is quicker, counting up to 30 in ones or counting up to 300 in tens? Why?
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?
Six Is the Sum
Stage: 2 Challenge Level:
What do the digits in the number fifteen add up to? How many other numbers have digits with the same total but no zeros?
Even Up
Stage: 3 Challenge Level:
Consider all of the five digit numbers which we can form using only the digits 2, 4, 6 and 8. If these numbers are arranged in ascending order, what is the 512th number?
ABC
Stage: 2 Challenge Level:
In the multiplication calculation, some of the digits have been replaced by letters and others by asterisks. Can you reconstruct the original multiplication?
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.
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.
Basically
Stage: 3 Challenge Level:
The number 3723(in base 10) is written as 123 in another base. What is that base?
One Million to Seven
Stage: 2 Challenge Level:
Start by putting one million (1 000 000) into the display of your calculator. Can you reduce this to 7 using just the 7 key and add, subtract, multiply, divide and equals as many times as you like?
Method in Multiplying Madness?
Stage: 2 and 3 Challenge Level:
Watch our videos of multiplication methods that you may not have met before. Can you make sense of them?
Power Mad!
Stage: 3 Challenge Level:
Powers of numbers behave in surprising ways. Take a look at some of these and try to explain why they are true.
Dicey Operations for Two
Stage: 2 Challenge Level:
Dicey Operations for an adult and child. Can you get close to 1000 than your partner?
Football Sum
Stage: 3 Challenge Level:
Find the values of the nine letters in the sum: FOOT + BALL = GAME
Round the Dice Decimals 2
Stage: 2 Challenge Level:
What happens when you round these numbers to the nearest whole number?
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.
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...
X Marks the Spot
Stage: 3 Challenge Level:
When the number x 1 x x x is multiplied by 417 this gives the answer 9 x x x 0 5 7. Find the missing digits, each of which is represented by an "x" .
Skeleton
Stage: 3 Challenge Level:
Amazing as it may seem the three fives remaining in the following `skeleton' are sufficient to reconstruct the entire long division sum.
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.
NRICH is part of the family of activities in the Millennium Mathematics Project.