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Making Maths: Double-sided Magic Square
Age 7 to 14
Challenge Level
Make your own double-sided magic square. But can you complete both sides once you've made the pieces?
Making Maths: Happy Families
Age 5 to 11
Challenge Level
Here is a version of the game 'Happy Families' for you to make and play.
Sort Them Out (2)
Age 7 to 11
Challenge Level
Can you each work out the number on your card? What do you notice? How could you sort the cards?
Tangram Pictures
Age 5 to 14
Challenge Level
Use the tangram pieces to make our pictures, or to design some of your own!
Map Folding
Age 7 to 11
Challenge Level
Take a rectangle of paper and fold it in half, and half again, to make four smaller rectangles. How many different ways can you fold it up?
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?
Factors and Multiples Game for Two
Age 7 to 14
Challenge Level
Factors and Multiples game for an adult and child. How can you make sure you win this game?
Seven Flipped
Age 7 to 11
Challenge Level
Investigate the smallest number of moves it takes to turn these mats upside-down if you can only turn exactly three at a time.
Making Maths: Birds from an Egg
Age 7 to 11
Challenge Level
Can you make the birds from the egg tangram?
Making Maths: Snake Pits
Age 5 to 14
Challenge Level
A game to make and play based on the number line.
Making Sticks
Age 5 to 7
Challenge Level
Kimie and Sebastian were making sticks from interlocking cubes and lining them up. Can they make their lines the same length? Can they make any other lines?
Order the Changes
Age 7 to 11
Challenge Level
Can you order pictures of the development of a frog from frogspawn and of a bean seed growing into a plant?
Making Cuboids
Age 7 to 11
Challenge Level
Let's say you can only use two different lengths - 2 units and 4 units. Using just these 2 lengths as the edges how many different cuboids can you make?
Three Sets of Cubes, Two Surfaces
Age 7 to 11
Challenge Level
How many models can you find which obey these rules?
Dice Stairs
Age 7 to 11
Challenge Level
Can you make dice stairs using the rules stated? How do you know you have all the possible stairs?
Creating Cubes
Age 7 to 11
Challenge Level
Arrange 9 red cubes, 9 blue cubes and 9 yellow cubes into a large 3 by 3 cube. No row or column of cubes must contain two cubes of the same colour.
Two on Five
Age 5 to 11
Challenge Level
Take 5 cubes of one colour and 2 of another colour. How many different ways can you join them if the 5 must touch the table and the 2 must not touch the table?
Pairs of Numbers
Age 5 to 7
Challenge Level
If you have ten counters numbered 1 to 10, how many can you put into pairs that add to 10? Which ones do you have to leave out? Why?
Tangram Tangle
Age 5 to 7
Challenge Level
If you split the square into these two pieces, it is possible to fit the pieces together again to make a new shape. How many new shapes can you make?
Four Colours
Age 5 to 11
Challenge Level
Kate has eight multilink cubes. She has two red ones, two yellow, two green and two blue. She wants to fit them together to make a cube so that each colour shows on each face just once.
Back to the Practical?
Age 7 to 14
In this article for teachers, Bernard uses some problems to suggest that once a numerical pattern has been spotted from a practical starting point, going back to the practical can help explain. . . .
Square Corners
Age 7 to 11
Challenge Level
What is the greatest number of counters you can place on the grid below without four of them lying at the corners of a square?
Making Maths: Be a Mathemagician
Age 7 to 11
Challenge Level
Surprise your friends with this magic square trick.
Three Squares
Age 5 to 11
Challenge Level
What is the greatest number of squares you can make by overlapping three squares?
Dienes' Logiblocs
Age 5 to 7
Challenge Level
This problem focuses on Dienes' Logiblocs. What is the same and what is different about these pairs of shapes? Can you describe the shapes in the picture?
Egyptian Rope
Age 7 to 11
Challenge Level
The ancient Egyptians were said to make right-angled triangles using a rope with twelve equal sections divided by knots. What other triangles could you make if you had a rope like this?
Shaping Up
Age 7 to 11
Challenge Level
Are all the possible combinations of two shapes included in this set of 27 cards? How do you know?
Cover the Tray
Age 7 to 11
Challenge Level
These practical challenges are all about making a 'tray' and covering it with paper.
Sea Defences
Age 7 to 14
Challenge Level
These are pictures of the sea defences at New Brighton. Can you work out what a basic shape might be in both images of the sea wall and work out a way they might fit together?
Cuisenaire Squares
Age 7 to 11
Challenge Level
These squares have been made from Cuisenaire rods. Can you describe the pattern? What would the next square look like?
Cereal Packets
Age 7 to 11
Challenge Level
How can you put five cereal packets together to make different shapes if you must put them face-to-face?
Music to My Ears
Age 7 to 11
Challenge Level
Can you predict when you'll be clapping and when you'll be clicking if you start this rhythm? How about when a friend begins a new rhythm at the same time?
Clapping Times
Age 5 to 7
Challenge Level
If you count from 1 to 20 and clap more loudly on the numbers in the two times table, as well as saying those numbers loudly, which numbers will be loud?
How Tall?
Age 5 to 11
Challenge Level
A group of children are discussing the height of a tall tree. How would you go about finding out its height?
Two-digit Targets
Age 5 to 7
Challenge Level
You have a set of the digits from 0 – 9. Can you arrange these in the five boxes to make two-digit numbers as close to the targets as possible?
Counter Ideas
Age 7 to 11
Challenge Level
Here are some ideas to try in the classroom for using counters to investigate number patterns.
Counting Counters
Age 7 to 11
Challenge Level
Take a counter and surround it by a ring of other counters that MUST touch two others. How many are needed?
Sticks and Triangles
Age 7 to 11
Challenge Level
Using different numbers of sticks, how many different triangles are you able to make? Can you make any rules about the numbers of sticks that make the most triangles?
Two by One
Age 7 to 11
Challenge Level
An activity making various patterns with 2 x 1 rectangular tiles.
Cuboid-in-a-box
Age 7 to 11
Challenge Level
What is the smallest cuboid that you can put in this box so that you cannot fit another that's the same into it?
Building Patterns
Age 7 to 11
Challenge Level
Can you deduce the pattern that has been used to lay out these bottle tops?
Jig Shapes
Age 5 to 11
Challenge Level
Can you each work out what shape you have part of on your card? What will the rest of it look like?
Little Boxes
Age 7 to 11
Challenge Level
How many different cuboids can you make when you use four CDs or DVDs? How about using five, then six?
Cutting Corners
Age 7 to 11
Challenge Level
Can you make the most extraordinary, the most amazing, the most unusual patterns/designs from these triangles which are made in a special way?
Making Longer, Making Shorter
Age 5 to 7
Challenge Level
Ahmed is making rods using different numbers of cubes. Which rod is twice the length of his first rod?
Baked Bean Cans
Age 5 to 7
Challenge Level
Is there a best way to stack cans? What do different supermarkets do? How high can you safely stack the cans?
Fractional Triangles
Age 7 to 11
Challenge Level
Use the lines on this figure to show how the square can be divided into 2 halves, 3 thirds, 6 sixths and 9 ninths.
Tricky Triangles
Age 5 to 7
Challenge Level
Use the three triangles to fill these outline shapes. Perhaps you can create some of your own shapes for a friend to fill?
NRICH is part of the family of activities in the Millennium Mathematics Project.