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Trial and improvement. Digit cards. Combinations. Addition & subtraction. Place value. Multiplication & division. Introducing algebra. Generalising. Factors and multiples. Working systematically.There are 49 results
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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?
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.
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?
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?
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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
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?
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?
Multiplication Square Jigsaw
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
Can you complete this jigsaw of the multiplication square?
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?
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?
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.
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?
Dicey Operations in Line
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
Who said that adding, subtracting, multiplying and dividing couldn't be fun?
Coordinate Challenge
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
Use the clues about the symmetrical properties of these letters to place them on the grid.
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?
Nine-pin Triangles
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
How many different triangles can you make on a circular pegboard that has nine pegs?
Dicey Operations
Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:
Who said that adding, subtracting, multiplying and dividing couldn't be fun?
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?
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?
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?
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?
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?
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.
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.
More Carroll Diagrams
Age 7 to 14 Challenge Level:
How have the numbers been placed in this Carroll diagram? Which labels would you put on each row and column?
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!
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?
Reflector ! Rotcelfer
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
Can you place the blocks so that you see the reflection in the picture?
Sorting Logic Blocks
Age 5 to 11 Challenge Level:
This interactivity allows you to sort logic blocks by dragging their images.
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?
Quad Match
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
A task which depends on members of the group noticing the needs of others and responding.
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.
Reasoned Rounding
Age 7 to 14 Challenge Level:
Four strategy dice games to consolidate pupils' understanding of rounding.
Satisfying Four Statements
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
Can you find any two-digit numbers that satisfy all of these statements?
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.
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.