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Factors and multiples. Creating and manipulating expressions and formulae. Mathematical reasoning & proof. Modular arithmetic. Combinations. Describing Sequences. Interactivities. Fractions. Indices. Cuisenaire rods.There are 107 results
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Cuisenaire Environment
Age 5 to 16 Challenge Level:
An environment which simulates working with Cuisenaire rods.
Beads
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
Three beads are threaded on a circular wire and are coloured either red or blue. Can you find all four different combinations?
Tea Cups
Age 7 to 14 Challenge Level:
Place the 16 different combinations of cup/saucer in this 4 by 4 arrangement so that no row or column contains more than one cup or saucer of the same colour.
Cuisenaire Counting
Age 5 to 7 Challenge Level:
Here are some rods that are different colours. How could I make a yellow rod using white and red rods?
Domino Sorting
Age 5 to 7 Challenge Level:
Try grouping the dominoes in the ways described. Are there any left over each time? Can you explain why?
Triangle Edges
Age 5 to 7 Challenge Level:
How many triangles can you make using sticks that are 3cm, 4cm and 5cm long?
Let's Investigate Triangles
Age 5 to 7 Challenge Level:
Vincent and Tara are making triangles with the class construction set. They have a pile of strips of different lengths. How many different triangles can they make?
Prison Cells
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
There are 78 prisoners in a square cell block of twelve cells. The clever prison warder arranged them so there were 25 along each wall of the prison block. How did he do it?
Briefcase Lock
Age 5 to 7 Challenge Level:
My briefcase has a three-number combination lock, but I have forgotten the combination. I remember that there's a 3, a 5 and an 8. How many possible combinations are there to try?
Robot Monsters
Age 5 to 7 Challenge Level:
Use these head, body and leg pieces to make Robot Monsters which are different heights.
Team Scream
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
Seven friends went to a fun fair with lots of scary rides. They decided to pair up for rides until each friend had ridden once with each of the others. What was the total number rides?
Here to There 1 2 3
Age 5 to 7 Challenge Level:
Move from the START to the FINISH by moving across or down to the next square. Can you find a route to make these totals?
Mixed-up Socks
Age 5 to 7 Challenge Level:
Start with three pairs of socks. Now mix them up so that no mismatched pair is the same as another mismatched pair. Is there more than one way to do it?
Plates of Biscuits
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
Can you rearrange the biscuits on the plates so that the three biscuits on each plate are all different and there is no plate with two biscuits the same as two biscuits on another plate?
What Shape and Colour?
Age 5 to 7 Challenge Level:
Can you fill in the empty boxes in the grid with the right shape and colour?
Two Dice
Age 5 to 7 Challenge Level:
Find all the numbers that can be made by adding the dots on two dice.
Elf Suits
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
If these elves wear a different outfit every day for as many days as possible, how many days can their fun last?
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?
Home City
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
Use the clues to work out which cities Mohamed, Sheng, Tanya and Bharat live in.
Magic Triangle
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
Place the digits 1 to 9 into the circles so that each side of the triangle adds to the same total.
Jumping Cricket
Age 5 to 7 Challenge Level:
El Crico the cricket has to cross a square patio to get home. He can jump the length of one tile, two tiles and three tiles. Can you find a path that would get El Crico home in three jumps?
Ladybirds in the Garden
Age 5 to 7 Challenge Level:
In Sam and Jill's garden there are two sorts of ladybirds with 7 spots or 4 spots. What numbers of total spots can you make?
Rod Measures
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
Using 3 rods of integer lengths, none longer than 10 units and not using any rod more than once, you can measure all the lengths in whole units from 1 to 10 units. How many ways can you do this?
Super Value Shapes
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
If each of these three shapes has a value, can you find the totals of the combinations? Perhaps you can use the shapes to make the given totals?
Button-up Some More
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
How many ways can you find to do up all four buttons on my coat? How about if I had five buttons? Six ...?
Button-up
Age 5 to 7 Challenge Level:
My coat has three buttons. How many ways can you find to do up all the buttons?
Number Round Up
Age 5 to 7 Challenge Level:
Arrange the numbers 1 to 6 in each set of circles below. The sum of each side of the triangle should equal the number in its centre.
Calendar Cubes
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
Make a pair of cubes that can be moved to show all the days of the month from the 1st to the 31st.
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.
3 Blocks Towers
Age 5 to 7 Challenge Level:
Take three differently coloured blocks - maybe red, yellow and blue. Make a tower using one of each colour. How many different towers can you make?
Red Express Train
Age 5 to 7 Challenge Level:
The Red Express Train usually has five red carriages. How many ways can you find to add two blue carriages?
Nineteen Hexagons
Age 5 to 7 Challenge Level:
In this maze of hexagons, you start in the centre at 0. The next hexagon must be a multiple of 2 and the next a multiple of 5. What are the possible paths you could take?
The School Trip
Age 5 to 7 Challenge Level:
Lorenzie was packing his bag for a school trip. He packed four shirts and three pairs of pants. "I will be able to have a different outfit each day", he said. How many days will Lorenzie be away?
On Target
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
You have 5 darts and your target score is 44. How many different ways could you score 44?
Hubble, Bubble
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
Winifred Wytsh bought a box each of jelly babies, milk jelly bears, yellow jelly bees and jelly belly beans. In how many different ways could she make a jolly jelly feast with 32 legs?
Two Egg Timers
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
You have two egg timers. One takes 4 minutes exactly to empty and the other takes 7 minutes. What times in whole minutes can you measure and how?
Four-triangle Arrangements
Age 5 to 7 Challenge Level:
How many different shapes can you make by putting four right- angled isosceles triangles together?
Penta Primes
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
Using all ten cards from 0 to 9, rearrange them to make five prime numbers. Can you find any other ways of doing it?
Six Is the Sum
Age 7 to 11 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?
Delia's Routes
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
A little mouse called Delia lives in a hole in the bottom of a tree.....How many days will it be before Delia has to take the same route again?
The Puzzling Sweet Shop
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
There were chews for 2p, mini eggs for 3p, Chocko bars for 5p and lollypops for 7p in the sweet shop. What could each of the children buy with their money?
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?
A Rod and a Pole
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
A lady has a steel rod and a wooden pole and she knows the length of each. How can she measure out an 8 unit piece of pole?
Wag Worms
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
When intergalactic Wag Worms are born they look just like a cube. Each year they grow another cube in any direction. Find all the shapes that five-year-old Wag Worms can be.
Two and One
Age 5 to 7 Challenge Level:
Terry and Ali are playing a game with three balls. Is it fair that Terry wins when the middle ball is red?
More Plant Spaces
Age 7 to 14 Challenge Level:
This challenging activity involves finding different ways to distribute fifteen items among four sets, when the sets must include three, four, five and six items.
Penta Post
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
Here are the prices for 1st and 2nd class mail within the UK. You have an unlimited number of each of these stamps. Which stamps would you need to post a parcel weighing 825g?
Finding Fifteen
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
Tim had nine cards each with a different number from 1 to 9 on it. How could he have put them into three piles so that the total in each pile was 15?
More Children and Plants
Age 7 to 14 Challenge Level:
This challenge extends the Plants investigation so now four or more children are involved.
NRICH is part of the family of activities in the Millennium Mathematics Project.