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Working systematically. Interactivities. Cubes & cuboids. Visualising. Arithmetic sequences. Matchsticks. Investigations. Practical Activity. Tangram. Generalising.There are 24 results
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Matchsticks
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
Reasoning about the number of matches needed to build squares that share their sides.
Seven Squares
Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:
Watch these videos to see how Phoebe, Alice and Luke chose to draw 7 squares. How would they draw 100?
Coordinate Patterns
Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:
Charlie and Alison have been drawing patterns on coordinate grids. Can you picture where the patterns lead?
Charlie's Delightful Machine
Age 11 to 16 Challenge Level:
Here is a machine with four coloured lights. Can you develop a strategy to work out the rules controlling each light?
Seven Squares - Group-worthy Task
Age 11 to 14 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?
Tables Without Tens
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
Investigate and explain the patterns that you see from recording just the units digits of numbers in the times tables.
More Number Pyramids
Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:
When number pyramids have a sequence on the bottom layer, some interesting patterns emerge...
Squares, Squares and More Squares
Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:
Can you dissect a square into: 4, 7, 10, 13... other squares? 6, 9, 12, 15... other squares? 8, 11, 14... other squares?
Investigating Pascal's Triangle
Age 7 to 14 Challenge Level:
In this investigation, we look at Pascal's Triangle in a slightly different way - rotated and with the top line of ones taken off.
Multiplication Square Jigsaw
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
Can you complete this jigsaw of the multiplication square?
Squares in Rectangles
Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:
A 2 by 3 rectangle contains 8 squares and a 3 by 4 rectangle contains 20 squares. What size rectangle(s) contain(s) exactly 100 squares? Can you find them all?
Doplication
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
We can arrange dots in a similar way to the 5 on a dice and they usually sit quite well into a rectangular shape. How many altogether in this 3 by 5? What happens for other sizes?
The Great Tiling Count
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
Compare the numbers of particular tiles in one or all of these three designs, inspired by the floor tiles of a church in Cambridge.
Cherries Come in Twos
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
Susie took cherries out of a bowl by following a certain pattern. How many cherries had there been in the bowl to start with if she was left with 14 single ones?
Maxagon
Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:
What's the greatest number of sides a polygon on a dotty grid could have?
Alphabet Blocks
Age 5 to 11 Challenge Level:
These alphabet bricks are painted in a special way. A is on one brick, B on two bricks, and so on. How many bricks will be painted by the time they have got to other letters of the alphabet?
What Numbers Can We Make?
Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:
Imagine we have four bags containing a large number of 1s, 4s, 7s and 10s. What numbers can we make?
Red Balloons, Blue Balloons
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
Katie and Will have some balloons. Will's balloon burst at exactly the same size as Katie's at the beginning of a puff. How many puffs had Will done before his balloon burst?
Transformations Tables
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
These grids are filled according to some rules - can you complete them?
Odds, Evens and More Evens
Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:
Alison, Bernard and Charlie have been exploring sequences of odd and even numbers, which raise some intriguing questions...
Mobile Numbers
Age 5 to 11 Challenge Level:
In this investigation, you are challenged to make mobile phone numbers which are easy to remember. What happens if you make a sequence adding 2 each time?
Days and Dates
Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:
Investigate how you can work out what day of the week your birthday will be on next year, and the year after...
Shifting Times Tables
Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:
Can you find a way to identify times tables after they have been shifted up or down?
Pocket Money
Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:
Which of these pocket money systems would you rather have?
NRICH is part of the family of activities in the Millennium Mathematics Project.