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A Chordingly
Stage: 3 Challenge Level: 
Find the area of the annulus in terms of the length of the chord which is tangent to the inner circle.
Appearing Square
Stage: 3 Challenge Level:
Make an eight by eight square, the layout is the same as a chessboard. You can print out and use the square below. What is the area of the square? Divide the square in the way shown by the red dashed. . . .
Coins on a Plate
Stage: 3 Challenge Level:
Points A, B and C are the centres of three circles, each one of which touches the other two. Prove that the perimeter of the triangle ABC is equal to the diameter of the largest circle.
The Pillar of Chios
Stage: 3 Challenge Level:
Semicircles are drawn on the sides of a rectangle ABCD. A circle passing through points ABCD carves out four crescent-shaped regions. Prove that the sum of the areas of the four crescents is equal to. . . .
Fitting In
Stage: 4 Challenge Level:
The largest square which fits into a circle is ABCD and EFGH is a square with G and H on the line CD and E and F on the circumference of the circle. Show that AB = 5EF. Similarly the largest. . . .
Ratty
Stage: 3 Challenge Level:
If you know the sizes of the angles marked with coloured dots in this diagram which angles can you find by calculation?
Disappearing Square
Stage: 3 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. . . .
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.
Triangle Inequality
Stage: 3 Challenge Level:
ABC is an equilateral triangle and P is a point in the interior of the triangle. We know that AP = 3cm and BP = 4cm. Prove that CP must be less than 10 cm.
Thirty Nine, Seventy Five
Stage: 3 Challenge Level:
We have exactly 100 coins. There are five different values of coins. We have decided to buy a piece of computer software for 39.75. We have the correct money, not a penny more, not a penny less! Can. . . .
More Mathematical Mysteries
Stage: 3 Challenge Level:
Write down a three-digit number Change the order of the digits to get a different number Find the difference between the two three digit numbers Follow the rest of the instructions then try. . . .
Not Necessarily in That Order
Stage: 3 Challenge Level:
Baker, Cooper, Jones and Smith are four people whose occupations are teacher, welder, mechanic and programmer, but not necessarily in that order. What is each person’s occupation?
Cycle It
Stage: 3 Challenge Level:
Carry out cyclic permutations of nine digit numbers containing the digits from 1 to 9 (until you get back to the first number). Prove that whatever number you choose, they will add to the same total.
The Genie in the Jar
Stage: 3 Challenge Level:
This jar used to hold perfumed oil. It contained enough oil to fill granid silver bottles. Each bottle held enough to fill ozvik golden goblets and each goblet held enough to fill vaswik crystal. . . .
Go Forth and Generalise
Stage: 3
Spotting patterns can be an important first step - explaining why it is appropriate to generalise is the next step, and often the most interesting and important.
Round and Round
Stage: 4 Challenge Level:
Prove that the shaded area of the semicircle is equal to the area of the inner circle.
Matter of Scale
Stage: 4 Challenge Level:
Prove Pythagoras' Theorem using enlargements and scale factors.
Paradoxes
Stage: 2 and 3
A paradox is a statement that seems to be both untrue and true at the same time. This article looks at a few examples and challenges you to investigate them for yourself.
Rhombus in Rectangle
Stage: 4 Challenge Level:
Take any rectangle ABCD such that AB > BC. The point P is on AB and Q is on CD. Show that there is exactly one position of P and Q such that APCQ is a rhombus.
Logic
Stage: 2 and 3
What does logic mean to us and is that different to mathematical logic? We will explore these questions in this article.
Online
Stage: 2 and 3 Challenge Level:
A game for 2 players that can be played online. Players take it in turns to select a word from the 9 words given. The aim is to select all the occurrences of the same letter.
Salinon
Stage: 4 Challenge Level:
This shape comprises four semi-circles. What is the relationship between the area of the shaded region and the area of the circle on AB as diameter?
Con Tricks
Stage: 3
Here are some examples of 'cons', and see if you can figure out where the trick is.
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.
Rotating Triangle
Stage: 3 and 4 Challenge Level:
What happens to the perimeter of triangle ABC as the two smaller circles change size and roll around inside the bigger circle?
Cross-country Race
Stage: 3 Challenge Level:
Eight children enter the autumn cross-country race at school. How many possible ways could they come in at first, second and third places?
Tri-colour
Stage: 3 Challenge Level:
Six points are arranged in space so that no three are collinear. How many line segments can be formed by joining the points in pairs?
Winning Team
Stage: 3 Challenge Level:
Nine cross country runners compete in a team competition in which there are three matches. If you were a judge how would you decide who would win?
More Marbles
Stage: 3 Challenge Level:
I start with a red, a blue, a green and a yellow marble. I can trade any of my marbles for three others, one of each colour. Can I end up with exactly two marbles of each colour?
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?
Rolling Coins
Stage: 4 Challenge Level:
A blue coin rolls round two yellow coins which touch. The coins are the same size. How many revolutions does the blue coin make when it rolls all the way round the yellow coins? Investigate for a. . . .
Greetings
Stage: 3 Challenge Level:
From a group of any 4 students in a class of 30, each has exchanged Christmas cards with the other three. Show that some students have exchanged cards with all the other students in the class. How. . . .
Marbles
Stage: 3 Challenge Level:
I start with a red, a green and a blue marble. I can trade any of my marbles for two others, one of each colour. Can I end up with five more blue marbles than red after a number of such trades?
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.
Konigsberg Plus
Stage: 3 Challenge Level:
Euler discussed whether or not it was possible to stroll around Koenigsberg crossing each of its seven bridges exactly once. Experiment with different numbers of islands and bridges.
Tourism
Stage: 3 Challenge Level:
If you can copy a network without lifting your pen off the paper and without drawing any line twice, then it is traversable. Decide which of these diagrams are traversable.
No Right Angle Here
Stage: 4 Challenge Level:
Prove that the internal angle bisectors of a triangle will never be perpendicular to each other.
Calculating with Cosines
Stage: 4 and 5 Challenge Level:
If I tell you two sides of a right-angled triangle, you can easily work out the third. But what if the angle between the two sides is not a right angle?
Three Frogs
Stage: 4 Challenge Level:
Three frogs hopped onto the table. A red frog on the left a green in the middle and a blue frog on the right. Then frogs started jumping randomly over any adjacent frog. Is it possible for them to. . . .
9 Weights
Stage: 3 Challenge Level:
You have been given nine weights, one of which is slightly heavier than the rest. Can you work out which weight is heavier in just two weighings of the balance?
Three Balls
Stage: 4 Challenge Level:
A circle has centre O and angle POR = angle QOR. Construct tangents at P and Q meeting at T. Draw a circle with diameter OT. Do P and Q lie inside, or on, or outside this circle?
Natural Sum
Stage: 4 Challenge Level:
The picture illustrates the sum 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 = (4 x 5)/2. Prove the general formula for the sum of the first n natural numbers and the formula for the sum of the cubes of the first n natural. . . .
Seven Squares - Group-worthy Task
Stage: 3 Challenge Level:
Choose a couple of the sequences. Try to picture how to make the next, and the next, and the next... Can you describe your reasoning?
More Number Pyramids
Stage: 3 Challenge Level:
When number pyramids have a sequence on the bottom layer, some interesting patterns emerge...
NRICH is part of the family of activities in the Millennium Mathematics Project.