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What is the smallest number of answers you need to reveal in order to work out the missing headers?
Interior angles can help us to work out which polygons will tessellate. Can we use similar ideas to predict which polygons combine to create semi-regular solids?
Engage in a little mathematical detective work to see if you can spot the fakes.
Imagine a room full of people who keep flipping coins until they get a tail. Will anyone get six heads in a row?
Move your counters through this snake of cards and see how far you can go. Are you surprised by where you end up?
Here is a machine with four coloured lights. Can you develop a strategy to work out the rules controlling each light?
Here is a machine with four coloured lights. Can you make two lights switch on at once? Three lights? All four lights?
Can you find a way to identify times tables after they have been shifted up or down?
The Tower of Hanoi is an ancient mathematical challenge. Working on the building blocks may help you to explain the patterns you notice.
A country has decided to have just two different coins, 3z and 5z coins. Which totals can be made? Is there a largest total that cannot be made? How do you know?
Who said that adding, subtracting, multiplying and dividing couldn't be fun?
There are nasty versions of this dice game but we'll start with the nice ones...
What can you see? What do you notice? What questions can you ask?
Play this game and see if you can figure out the computer's chosen number.
Can you find a reliable strategy for choosing coordinates that will locate the treasure in the minimum number of guesses?
On the graph there are 28 marked points. These points all mark the vertices (corners) of eight hidden squares. Can you find the eight hidden squares?
If you are given the mean, median and mode of five positive whole numbers, can you find the numbers?
Can you work out which spinners were used to generate the frequency charts?
Use the differences to find the solution to this Sudoku.
Imagine you were given the chance to win some money... and imagine you had nothing to lose...
Why not challenge a friend to play this transformation game?
Find the frequency distribution for ordinary English, and use it to help you crack the code.
The clues for this Sudoku are the product of the numbers in adjacent squares.
Semi-regular tessellations combine two or more different regular polygons to fill the plane. Can you find all the semi-regular tessellations?
Six balls are shaken. You win if at least one red ball ends in a corner. What is the probability of winning?
Seven balls are shaken. You win if the two blue balls end up touching. What is the probability of winning?
A game in which players take it in turns to try to draw quadrilaterals (or triangles) with particular properties. Is it possible to fill the game grid?
A game in which players take it in turns to turn up two cards. If they can draw a triangle which satisfies both properties they win the pair of cards. And a few challenging questions to follow...
A game for 2 or more people, based on the traditional card game Rummy.
Can you find the values at the vertices when you know the values on the edges?
Can you work out what step size to take to ensure you visit all the dots on the circle?
Draw some isosceles triangles with an area of $9$cm$^2$ and a vertex at (20,20). If all the vertices must have whole number coordinates, how many is it possible to draw?
Players take it in turns to choose a dot on the grid. The winner is the first to have four dots that can be joined to form a square.
If you move the tiles around, can you make squares with different coloured edges?
Can you find a cuboid that has a surface area of exactly 100 square units. Is there more than one? Can you find them all?
A spider is sitting in the middle of one of the smallest walls in a room and a fly is resting beside the window. What is the shortest distance the spider would have to crawl to catch the fly?
My two digit number is special because adding the sum of its digits to the product of its digits gives me my original number. What could my number be?
A hexagon, with sides alternately a and b units in length, is inscribed in a circle. How big is the radius of the circle?
How many different symmetrical shapes can you make by shading triangles or squares?
How many moves does it take to swap over some red and blue frogs? Do you have a method?
Imagine you have an unlimited number of four types of triangle. How many different tetrahedra can you make?
Chris and Jo put two red and four blue ribbons in a box. They each pick a ribbon from the box without looking. Jo wins if the two ribbons are the same colour. Is the game fair?
Charlie likes tablecloths that use as many colours as possible, but insists that his tablecloths have some symmetry. Can you work out how many colours he needs for different tablecloth designs?
How many winning lines can you make in a three-dimensional version of noughts and crosses?
How many solutions can you find to this sum? Each of the different letters stands for a different number.
Charlie and Abi put a counter on 42. They wondered if they could visit all the other numbers on their 1-100 board, moving the counter using just these two operations: x2 and -5. What do you think?
Using the digits 1 to 9, the number 4396 can be written as the product of two numbers. Can you find the factors?
In 15 years' time my age will be the square of my age 15 years ago. Can you work out my age, and when I had other special birthdays?