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Games Related to Nim
Age 5 to 16
This article for teachers describes several games, found on the site, all of which have a related structure that can be used to develop the skills of strategic planning.
Triangles to Tetrahedra
Age 11 to 14
Challenge Level
Imagine you have an unlimited number of four types of triangle. How many different tetrahedra can you make?
Summing Consecutive Numbers
Age 11 to 14
Challenge Level
15 = 7 + 8 and 10 = 1 + 2 + 3 + 4. Can you say which numbers can be expressed as the sum of two or more consecutive integers?
Window Frames
Age 5 to 14
Challenge Level
This task encourages you to investigate the number of edging pieces and panes in different sized windows.
Maths Trails
Age 7 to 14
The NRICH team are always looking for new ways to engage teachers and pupils in problem solving. Here we explain the thinking behind maths trails.
Calcunos
Age 7 to 11
Challenge Level
If we had 16 light bars which digital numbers could we make? How will you know you've found them all?
Diagonal Product Sudoku
Age 11 to 16
Challenge Level
Given the products of diagonally opposite cells - can you complete this Sudoku?
Another Quadruple Clue Sudoku
Age 11 to 16
Challenge Level
This is a variation of sudoku which contains a set of special clue-numbers. Each set of 4 small digits stands for the numbers in the four cells of the grid adjacent to this set.
9 Weights
Age 11 to 14
Challenge Level
You have been given nine weights, one of which is slightly heavier than the rest. Can you work out which weight is heavier in just two weighings of the balance?
Seven Flipped
Age 7 to 11
Challenge Level
Investigate the smallest number of moves it takes to turn these mats upside-down if you can only turn exactly three at a time.
Colour Islands Sudoku
Age 11 to 14
Challenge Level
An extra constraint means this Sudoku requires you to think in diagonals as well as horizontal and vertical lines and boxes of nine.
Simultaneous Equations Sudoku
Age 11 to 16
Challenge Level
Solve the equations to identify the clue numbers in this Sudoku problem.
Magazines
Age 7 to 11
Challenge Level
Let's suppose that you are going to have a magazine which has 16 pages of A5 size. Can you find some different ways to make these pages? Investigate the pattern for each if you number the pages.
Squares in Rectangles
Age 11 to 14
Challenge Level
A 2 by 3 rectangle contains 8 squares and a 3 by 4 rectangle contains 20 squares. What size rectangle(s) contain(s) exactly 100 squares? Can you find them all?
Newspapers
Age 7 to 11
Challenge Level
When newspaper pages get separated at home we have to try to sort them out and get things in the correct order. How many ways can we arrange these pages so that the numbering may be different?
Two and Two
Age 11 to 16
Challenge Level
How many solutions can you find to this sum? Each of the different letters stands for a different number.
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?
Ice Cream
Age 7 to 11
Challenge Level
You cannot choose a selection of ice cream flavours that includes totally what someone has already chosen. Have a go and find all the different ways in which seven children can have ice cream.
Multiply the Addition Square
Age 11 to 14
Challenge Level
If you take a three by three square on a 1-10 addition square and multiply the diagonally opposite numbers together, what is the difference between these products. Why?
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?
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?
Sticky Numbers
Age 11 to 14
Challenge Level
Can you arrange the numbers 1 to 17 in a row so that each adjacent pair adds up to a square number?
Read This Page
Age 11 to 14
Challenge Level
Replace the letters with numbers to make the addition work out correctly. R E A D + T H I S = P A G E
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?
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?
More Magic Potting Sheds
Age 11 to 14
Challenge Level
The number of plants in Mr McGregor's magic potting shed increases overnight. He'd like to put the same number of plants in each of his gardens, planting one garden each day. How can he do it?
Colour in the Square
Age 7 to 16
Challenge Level
Can you put the 25 coloured tiles into the 5 x 5 square so that no column, no row and no diagonal line have tiles of the same colour in them?
Quadruple Clue Sudoku
Age 11 to 16
Challenge Level
Four numbers on an intersection that need to be placed in the surrounding cells. That is all you need to know to solve this sudoku.
Special Numbers
Age 11 to 14
Challenge Level
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?
Halloween Investigation
Age 7 to 11
Challenge Level
Ana and Ross looked in a trunk in the attic. They found old cloaks and gowns, hats and masks. How many possible costumes could they make?
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?
Charitable Pennies
Age 7 to 14
Challenge Level
Investigate the different ways that fifteen schools could have given money in a charity fundraiser.
3 Rings
Age 7 to 11
Challenge Level
If you have three circular objects, you could arrange them so that they are separate, touching, overlapping or inside each other. Can you investigate all the different possibilities?
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.
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?
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?
Nine-pin Triangles
Age 7 to 11
Challenge Level
How many different triangles can you make on a circular pegboard that has nine pegs?
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?
Street Party
Age 7 to 11
Challenge Level
The challenge here is to find as many routes as you can for a fence to go so that this town is divided up into two halves, each with 8 blocks.
Addition Equation Sudoku
Age 11 to 14
Challenge Level
You need to find the values of the stars before you can apply normal Sudoku rules.
Gabriel's Problem
Age 11 to 14
Challenge Level
Gabriel multiplied together some numbers and then erased them. Can you figure out where each number was?
Consecutive Negative Numbers
Age 11 to 14
Challenge Level
Do you notice anything about the solutions when you add and/or subtract consecutive negative numbers?
Tetrahedra Tester
Age 11 to 14
Challenge Level
An irregular tetrahedron is composed of four different triangles. Can such a tetrahedron be constructed where the side lengths are 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9 units of length?
Where Can We Visit?
Age 11 to 14
Challenge Level
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?
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