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Four-digit Targets
Age 7 to 11
Challenge Level
You have two sets of the digits 0 – 9. Can you arrange these in the five boxes to make four-digit numbers as close to the target numbers as possible?
Times Tables Shifts
Age 7 to 11
Challenge Level
In this activity, the computer chooses a times table and shifts it. Can you work out the table and the shift each time?
Multiplication Square Jigsaw
Age 7 to 11
Challenge Level
Can you complete this jigsaw of the multiplication square?
Shape Times Shape
Age 7 to 11
Challenge Level
These eleven shapes each stand for a different number. Can you use the number sentences to work out what they are?
Dicey Operations in Line
Age 7 to 11
Challenge Level
Who said that adding, subtracting, multiplying and dividing couldn't be fun?
Multiples Grid
Age 7 to 11
Challenge Level
What do the numbers shaded in blue on this hundred square have in common? What do you notice about the pink numbers? How about the shaded numbers in the other squares?
The Deca Tree
Age 7 to 11
Challenge Level
Find out what a Deca Tree is and then work out how many leaves there will be after the woodcutter has cut off a trunk, a branch, a twig and a leaf.
Fractions in a Box
Age 7 to 11
Challenge Level
The discs for this game are kept in a flat square box with a square hole for each. Use the information to find out how many discs of each colour there are in the box.
Table Patterns Go Wild!
Age 7 to 11
Challenge Level
Nearly all of us have made table patterns on hundred squares, that is 10 by 10 grids. This problem looks at the patterns on differently sized square grids.
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?
Zios and Zepts
Age 7 to 11
Challenge Level
On the planet Vuv there are two sorts of creatures. The Zios have 3 legs and the Zepts have 7 legs. The great planetary explorer Nico counted 52 legs. How many Zios and how many Zepts were there?
Andy's Marbles
Age 7 to 11
Challenge Level
Andy had a big bag of marbles but unfortunately the bottom of it split and all the marbles spilled out. Use the information to find out how many there were in the bag originally.
Nine-pin Triangles
Age 7 to 11
Challenge Level
How many different triangles can you make on a circular pegboard that has nine pegs?
Light the Lights Again
Age 7 to 11
Challenge Level
Each light in this interactivity turns on according to a rule. What happens when you enter different numbers? Can you find the smallest number that lights up all four lights?
Symmetry Challenge
Age 7 to 11
Challenge Level
Systematically explore the range of symmetric designs that can be created by shading parts of the motif below. Use normal square lattice paper to record your results.
Carrying Cards
Age 7 to 11
Challenge Level
These sixteen children are standing in four lines of four, one behind the other. They are each holding a card with a number on it. Can you work out the missing numbers?
Counters in the Middle
Age 7 to 11
Challenge Level
This task depends on groups working collaboratively, discussing and reasoning to agree a final product.
Round the Dice Decimals 1
Age 7 to 11
Challenge Level
Use two dice to generate two numbers with one decimal place. What happens when you round these numbers to the nearest whole number?
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.
Eight Hidden Squares
Age 7 to 14
Challenge Level
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?
Shapes on the Playground
Age 7 to 11
Challenge Level
Sally and Ben were drawing shapes in chalk on the school playground. Can you work out what shapes each of them drew using the clues?
Nice or Nasty
Age 7 to 14
Challenge Level
There are nasty versions of this dice game but we'll start with the nice ones...
Cut it Out
Age 7 to 11
Challenge Level
Can you dissect an equilateral triangle into 6 smaller ones? What number of smaller equilateral triangles is it NOT possible to dissect a larger equilateral triangle into?
Twice as Big?
Age 7 to 11
Challenge Level
Investigate how the four L-shapes fit together to make an enlarged L-shape. You could explore this idea with other shapes too.
The Remainders Game
Age 7 to 14
Challenge Level
Play this game and see if you can figure out the computer's chosen number.
Remainders
Age 7 to 14
Challenge Level
I'm thinking of a number. My number is both a multiple of 5 and a multiple of 6. What could my number be?
Coordinate Challenge
Age 7 to 11
Challenge Level
Use the clues about the symmetrical properties of these letters to place them on the grid.
Dicey Operations
Age 11 to 14
Challenge Level
Who said that adding, subtracting, multiplying and dividing couldn't be fun?
Discuss and Choose
Age 5 to 11
Challenge Level
This activity challenges you to decide on the 'best' number to use in each statement. You may need to do some estimating, some calculating and some research.
Let Us Divide!
Age 7 to 11
Challenge Level
Look at different ways of dividing things. What do they mean? How might you show them in a picture, with things, with numbers and symbols?
Bryony's Triangle
Age 7 to 11
Challenge Level
Watch the video to see how to fold a square of paper to create a flower. What fraction of the piece of paper is the small triangle?
Torn Shapes
Age 7 to 11
Challenge Level
These rectangles have been torn. How many squares did each one have inside it before it was ripped?
Stringy Quads
Age 7 to 11
Challenge Level
This practical problem challenges you to make quadrilaterals with a loop of string. You'll need some friends to help!
Reflector ! Rotcelfer
Age 7 to 11
Challenge Level
Can you place the blocks so that you see the reflection in the picture?
Let Us Reflect
Age 7 to 11
Challenge Level
Where can you put the mirror across the square so that you can still "see" the whole square? How many different positions are possible?
Fractional Wall
Age 7 to 11
Challenge Level
Using the picture of the fraction wall, can you find equivalent fractions?
Chocolate
Age 7 to 14
Challenge Level
There are three tables in a room with blocks of chocolate on each. Where would be the best place for each child in the class to sit if they came in one at a time?
Quad Match
Age 7 to 11
Challenge Level
A task which depends on members of the group noticing the needs of others and responding.
Sorting Logic Blocks
Age 5 to 11
Challenge Level
This activity focuses on similarities and differences between shapes.
What Shape?
Age 7 to 14
Challenge Level
This task develops spatial reasoning skills. By framing and asking questions a member of the team has to find out what mathematical object they have chosen.
A Cartesian Puzzle
Age 7 to 11
Challenge Level
Find the missing coordinates which will form these eight quadrilaterals. These coordinates themselves will then form a shape with rotational and line symmetry.
Satisfying Four Statements
Age 7 to 11
Challenge Level
Can you find any two-digit numbers that satisfy all of these statements?
Reasoned Rounding
Age 7 to 14
Challenge Level
Four strategy dice games to consolidate pupils' understanding of rounding.
Representing Numbers
Age 7 to 11
Challenge Level
Find as many different ways of representing this number of dots as you can.
What Distance?
Age 7 to 11
Challenge Level
This task gives an opportunity to perform some subtractions in a slightly realistic situation.
Ordering Journeys
Age 7 to 11
Challenge Level
How would you put these journey lengths in order? Give a bit of a place value challenge with subtractions set out not as a calculation.
Count Me In
Age 7 to 11
Challenge Level
How do you know whether you will reach these numbers when you count in steps of six from zero?
NRICH is part of the family of activities in the Millennium Mathematics Project.