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Succession in Randomia
Age 16 to 18 Challenge Level:
By tossing a coin one of three princes is chosen to be the next King of Randomia. Does each prince have an equal chance of taking the throne?
Time to Evolve 2
Age 16 to 18 Challenge Level:
How is the length of time between the birth of an animal and the birth of its great great ... great grandparent distributed?
Excel Interactive Resource: Long Multiplication
Age 11 to 16 Challenge Level:
Use an Excel spreadsheet to explore long multiplication.
Excel Interactive Resource: Number Grid Functions
Age 11 to 16 Challenge Level:
Use Excel to investigate the effect of translations around a number grid.
Excel Investigation: Target Decimal
Age 11 to 16 Challenge Level:
Use an Excel spreadsheet to approximate a decimal using trial and improvement.
Excel Technique: LOOKUP Functions
Age 11 to 16 Challenge Level:
Learn how to use lookup functions to create exciting interactive Excel spreadsheets.
The Legacy
Age 14 to 16 Challenge Level:
Your school has been left a million pounds in the will of an ex- pupil. What model of investment and spending would you use in order to ensure the best return on the money?
Excel Interactive Resource: Equivalent Fraction Bars
Age 11 to 16 Challenge Level:
A simple file for the Interactive whiteboard or PC screen, demonstrating equivalent fractions.
Excel Investigation: Happy Numbers
Age 11 to 16 Challenge Level:
Take any whole number between 1 and 999, add the squares of the digits to get a new number. Use a spreadsheet to investigate this sequence.
Excel Technique: Triangular Arrays by Turning Off Zeros
Age 11 to 16 Challenge Level:
Learn how to use Excel to create triangular arrays.
Excel Interactive Resource: the up and Down Game
Age 11 to 16 Challenge Level:
Use an interactive Excel spreadsheet to explore number in this exciting game!
Excel Technique: Conditional Formatting
Age 11 to 16 Challenge Level:
Learn how to use conditional formatting to create attractive interactive spreadsheets in Excel.
Excel Investigation: Pascal Multiples
Age 11 to 16 Challenge Level:
This spreadsheet highlights multiples of numbers up to 20 in Pascal's triangle. What patterns can you see?
Excel Investigation: Number Pyramids
Age 11 to 16 Challenge Level:
Use Excel to create some number pyramids. How are the numbers in the base line related to each other? Investigate using the spreadsheet.
Excel Technique: Logic Tests
Age 11 to 16 Challenge Level:
Learn how to use logic tests to create interactive resources using Excel.
Percentages for Key Stage 4
Age 14 to 16 Challenge Level:
A group of interactive resources to support work on percentages Key Stage 4.
Excel Interactive Resource: Interactive Division
Age 11 to 16 Challenge Level:
Use an Excel to investigate division. Explore the relationships between the process elements using an interactive spreadsheet.
Peaches in General
Age 14 to 16 Challenge Level:
It's like 'Peaches Today, Peaches Tomorrow' but interestingly generalized.
Excel Technique: Composite Bar Charts
Age 11 to 16 Challenge Level:
Learn how to use composite bar charts in Excel.
Excel Investigation: Ring on a String
Age 11 to 16 Challenge Level:
This investigation uses Excel to optimise a characteristic of interest.
Minus One Two Three
Age 14 to 16 Challenge Level:
Substitute -1, -2 or -3, into an algebraic expression and you'll get three results. Is it possible to tell in advance which of those three will be the largest ?
Excel Interactive Resource: Multiples Chain
Age 11 to 16 Challenge Level:
Use an interactive Excel spreadsheet to investigate factors and multiples.
Excel Investigation: Fraction Combinations
Age 11 to 16 Challenge Level:
Choose four numbers and make two fractions. Use an Excel spreadsheet to investigate their properties. Can you generalise?
Tree Tops
Age 14 to 16 Challenge Level:
Can you make sense of information about trees in order to maximise the profits of a forestry company?
Excel Interactive Resource: Fraction Addition & Fraction Subtraction
Age 11 to 16 Challenge Level:
Use Excel to practise adding and subtracting fractions.
Excel Technique: Inserting an Increment Button
Age 11 to 16 Challenge Level:
Learn how to use increment buttons and scroll bars to create interactive Excel resources.
Excel Interactive Resource: Fraction Multiplication
Age 11 to 16 Challenge Level:
Use Excel to explore multiplication of fractions.
Excel Investigation: More Beads
Age 11 to 16 Challenge Level:
A heap of beads was shared out by a professional bead sharer. Use the information given to find out how many beads there were at the start.
Excel Technique: Making a Table for a Function of Two Independent
Age 11 to 16 Challenge Level:
Learn how to make a simple table using Excel.
Excel Interactive Resource: Make a Copy
Age 11 to 16 Challenge Level:
Investigate factors and multiples using this interactive Excel spreadsheet. Use the increment buttons for experimentation and feedback.
Excel Interactive Resource: Haitch
Age 11 to 16 Challenge Level:
An Excel spreadsheet with an investigation.
Excel Investigation: Difference Tuples
Age 11 to 16 Challenge Level:
Use an Excel spreadsheet to investigate differences between four numbers. Which set of start numbers give the longest run before becoming 0 0 0 0?
Excel Investigation: Planks
Age 11 to 16 Challenge Level:
I have an unlimited supply of planks, of lengths 7 and 9 units. Putting planks end to end, what total lengths can be achieved? Use Excel to investigate.
Excel Investigation: Power Crazy
Age 11 to 16 Challenge Level:
When is 7^n + 3^n a multiple of 10? Use Excel to investigate, and try to explain what you find out.
Excel Investigation: the Difference of Two (same) Powers
Age 11 to 16 Challenge Level:
If you take two integers and look at the difference between the square of each value, there is a nice relationship between the original numbers and that difference. Can you find the pattern using. . . .
Getting to Know Excel
Age 11 to 16 Challenge Level:
A number of useful techniques that can extend your use of Excel.
Excel Investigation: Pythagorean Triples
Age 11 to 16 Challenge Level:
Use Excel to find sets of three numbers so that the sum of the squares of the first two is equal to the square of the third.
Excel Investigation: Multiples of Three
Age 11 to 16 Challenge Level:
Use Excel to investigate digit sums of multiples of three. Can you explain your findings?
Excel Investigation: Beads
Age 11 to 16 Challenge Level:
Use Excel to investigate remainders and divisors. Was your result predictable?
Excel Technique: LCM & HCF (or GCD)
Age 11 to 16 Challenge Level:
Learn how to use the Excel functions LCM and GCD.
Excel Technique: Using Paste Special to Lift a Copy of Values
Age 11 to 16 Challenge Level:
Learn how to use advanced pasting techniques to create interactive spreadsheets.
Funnel
Age 14 to 16 Challenge Level:
A plastic funnel is used to pour liquids through narrow apertures. What shape funnel would use the least amount of plastic to manufacture for any specific volume ?
Unusual Long Division - Square Roots Before Calculators
Age 14 to 16 Challenge Level:
However did we manage before calculators? Is there an efficient way to do a square root if you have to do the work yourself?
Zeller's Birthday
Age 14 to 16 Challenge Level:
What day of the week were you born on? Do you know? Here's a way to find out.
The Fire-fighter's Car Keys
Age 14 to 16 Challenge Level:
A fire-fighter needs to fill a bucket of water from the river and take it to a fire. What is the best point on the river bank for the fire-fighter to fill the bucket ?.
Under the Ribbon
Age 14 to 16 Challenge Level:
A ribbon is nailed down with a small amount of slack. What is the largest cube that can pass under the ribbon ?
Peeling the Apple or the Cone That Lost Its Head
Age 14 to 16 Challenge Level:
How much peel does an apple have?
Odd Differences
Age 14 to 16 Challenge Level:
The diagram illustrates the formula: 1 + 3 + 5 + ... + (2n - 1) = n² Use the diagram to show that any odd number is the difference of two squares.
NRICH is part of the family of activities in the Millennium Mathematics Project.