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Jigsaw Pieces
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
How will you go about finding all the jigsaw pieces that have one peg and one hole?
Putting Two and Two Together
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
In how many ways can you fit two of these yellow triangles together? Can you predict the number of ways two blue triangles can be fitted together?
Single Track
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
What is the best way to shunt these carriages so that each train can continue its journey?
Counters
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
Hover your mouse over the counters to see which ones will be removed. Click to remove them. The winner is the last one to remove a counter. How you can make sure you win?
Display Boards
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
Design an arrangement of display boards in the school hall which fits the requirements of different people.
Open Boxes
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
Can you work out how many cubes were used to make this open box? What size of open box could you make if you had 112 cubes?
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?
Nine-pin Triangles
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
How many different triangles can you make on a circular pegboard that has nine pegs?
Shunting Puzzle
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
Can you shunt the trucks so that the Cattle truck and the Sheep truck change places and the Engine is back on the main line?
Quadrilaterals
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
How many DIFFERENT quadrilaterals can be made by joining the dots on the 8-point circle?
Hexpentas
Age 5 to 11 Challenge Level:
How many different ways can you find of fitting five hexagons together? How will you know you have found all the ways?
Knight's Swap
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
Swap the stars with the moons, using only knights' moves (as on a chess board). What is the smallest number of moves possible?
Waiting for Blast Off
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
10 space travellers are waiting to board their spaceships. There are two rows of seats in the waiting room. Using the rules, where are they all sitting? Can you find all the possible ways?
Painting Possibilities
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
This task, written for the National Young Mathematicians' Award 2016, involves open-topped boxes made with interlocking cubes. Explore the number of units of paint that are needed to cover the boxes. . . .
Red Even
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
You have 4 red and 5 blue counters. How many ways can they be placed on a 3 by 3 grid so that all the rows columns and diagonals have an even number of red counters?
Triple Cubes
Age 5 to 11 Challenge Level:
This challenge involves eight three-cube models made from interlocking cubes. Investigate different ways of putting the models together then compare your constructions.
Tetrafit
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
A tetromino is made up of four squares joined edge to edge. Can this tetromino, together with 15 copies of itself, be used to cover an eight by eight chessboard?
Counting Cards
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
A magician took a suit of thirteen cards and held them in his hand face down. Every card he revealed had the same value as the one he had just finished spelling. How did this work?
Neighbours
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
In a square in which the houses are evenly spaced, numbers 3 and 10 are opposite each other. What is the smallest and what is the largest possible number of houses in the square?
Four Triangles Puzzle
Age 5 to 11 Challenge Level:
Cut four triangles from a square as shown in the picture. How many different shapes can you make by fitting the four triangles back together?
Paw Prints
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
A dog is looking for a good place to bury his bone. Can you work out where he started and ended in each case? What possible routes could he have taken?
Brush Loads
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
How can you arrange the 5 cubes so that you need the smallest number of Brush Loads of paint to cover them? Try with other numbers of cubes as well.
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?
Move a Match
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
How can you arrange these 10 matches in four piles so that when you move one match from three of the piles into the fourth, you end up with the same arrangement?
Folded Number Line
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
When I fold a 0-20 number line, I end up with 'stacks' of numbers on top of each other. These challenges involve varying the length of the number line and investigating the 'stack totals'.
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?
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?
Sponge Sections
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
You have been given three shapes made out of sponge: a sphere, a cylinder and a cone. Your challenge is to find out how to cut them to make different shapes for printing.
Domino Numbers
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
Can you see why 2 by 2 could be 5? Can you predict what 2 by 10 will be?
Triangular Faces
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
This problem invites you to build 3D shapes using two different triangles. Can you make the shapes from the pictures?
Counter Roundup
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
A game for 1 or 2 people. Use the interactive version, or play with friends. Try to round up as many counters as possible.
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.
Redblue
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
Investigate the number of paths you can take from one vertex to another in these 3D shapes. Is it possible to take an odd number and an even number of paths to the same vertex?
Regular Rings 1
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
Can you work out what shape is made by folding in this way? Why not create some patterns using this shape but in different sizes?
Three Squares
Age 5 to 11 Challenge Level:
What is the greatest number of squares you can make by overlapping three squares?
Midpoint Triangle
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
Can you cut up a square in the way shown and make the pieces into a triangle?
Folding Flowers 2
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
Make a flower design using the same shape made out of different sizes of paper.
Jomista Mat
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
Looking at the picture of this Jomista Mat, can you decribe what you see? Why not try and make one yourself?
Folding, Cutting and Punching
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
Exploring and predicting folding, cutting and punching holes and making spirals.
Dodecamagic
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
Here you see the front and back views of a dodecahedron. Each vertex has been numbered so that the numbers around each pentagonal face add up to 65. Can you find all the missing numbers?
28 and It's Upward and Onward
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
Can you find ways of joining cubes together so that 28 faces are visible?
Move Those Halves
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
For this task, you'll need an A4 sheet and two A5 transparent sheets. Decide on a way of arranging the A5 sheets on top of the A4 sheet and explore ...
Multiplication Series: Illustrating Number Properties with Arrays
Age 5 to 11
This article for teachers describes how modelling number properties involving multiplication using an array of objects not only allows children to represent their thinking with concrete materials,. . . .
Colour Wheels
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
Imagine a wheel with different markings painted on it at regular intervals. Can you predict the colour of the 18th mark? The 100th mark?
Making Maths: Rolypoly
Age 5 to 11 Challenge Level:
Paint a stripe on a cardboard roll. Can you predict what will happen when it is rolled across a sheet of paper?
Odd Squares
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
Think of a number, square it and subtract your starting number. Is the number you’re left with odd or even? How do the images help to explain this?
Inside Seven Squares
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
What is the total area of the four outside triangles which are outlined in red in this arrangement of squares inside each other?
Taking Steps
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
In each of the pictures the invitation is for you to: Count what you see. Identify how you think the pattern would continue.
Construct-o-straws
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
Make a cube out of straws and have a go at this practical challenge.
NRICH is part of the family of activities in the Millennium Mathematics Project.