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Factors and Multiples Game for Two

Age 7 to 14Challenge Level

Factors and Multiples game for an adult and child. How can you make sure you win this game?

Factor Lines

Age 7 to 14Challenge Level

Arrange the four number cards on the grid, according to the rules, to make a diagonal, vertical or horizontal line.

Stars

Age 11 to 14Challenge Level

Can you work out what step size to take to ensure you visit all the dots on the circle?

Factors and Multiples Game

Age 7 to 16Challenge Level

A game in which players take it in turns to choose a number. Can you block your opponent?

Sieve of Eratosthenes

Age 11 to 14Challenge Level

Follow this recipe for sieving numbers and see what interesting patterns emerge.

Star Product Sudoku

Age 11 to 16Challenge Level

The puzzle can be solved by finding the values of the unknown digits (all indicated by asterisks) in the squares of the $9\times9$ grid.

Colour Wheels

Age 7 to 11Challenge Level

Imagine a wheel with different markings painted on it at regular intervals. Can you predict the colour of the 18th mark? The 100th mark?

Factors and Multiples - Secondary Resources

Age 11 to 16Challenge Level

A collection of resources to support work on Factors and Multiples at Secondary level.

Diagonal Product Sudoku

Age 11 to 16Challenge Level

Given the products of diagonally opposite cells - can you complete this Sudoku?

Charlie's Delightful Machine

Age 11 to 16Challenge Level

Here is a machine with four coloured lights. Can you develop a strategy to work out the rules controlling each light?

How Old Are the Children?

Age 11 to 14Challenge Level

A student in a maths class was trying to get some information from her teacher. She was given some clues and then the teacher ended by saying, "Well, how old are they?"

Statement Snap

Age 7 to 14Challenge Level

You'll need to know your number properties to win a game of Statement Snap...

Got It

Age 7 to 14Challenge Level

A game for two people, or play online. Given a target number, say 23, and a range of numbers to choose from, say 1-4, players take it in turns to add to the running total to hit their target.

What Two ...?

Age 7 to 11 ShortChallenge Level

56 406 is the product of two consecutive numbers. What are these two numbers?

Cuboids

Age 11 to 14Challenge Level

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?

In the Money

Age 7 to 11Challenge Level

One quarter of these coins are heads but when I turn over two coins, one third are heads. How many coins are there?

Ben's Game

Age 11 to 16Challenge Level

Ben, Jack and Emma passed counters to each other and ended with the same number of counters. How many did they start with?

American Billions

Age 11 to 14Challenge Level

Play the divisibility game to create numbers in which the first two digits make a number divisible by 2, the first three digits make a number divisible by 3...

Counting Cogs

Age 7 to 14Challenge Level

Which pairs of cogs let the coloured tooth touch every tooth on the other cog? Which pairs do not let this happen? Why?

Down to Nothing

Age 7 to 11Challenge Level

A game for 2 or more people. Starting with 100, subratct a number from 1 to 9 from the total. You score for making an odd number, a number ending in 0 or a multiple of 6.

Counting Factors

Age 11 to 14Challenge Level

Is there an efficient way to work out how many factors a large number has?

What's in the Box?

Age 7 to 11Challenge Level

This big box multiplies anything that goes inside it by the same number. If you know the numbers that come out, what multiplication might be going on in the box?

Seven Flipped

Age 7 to 11Challenge 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.

Product Sudoku

Age 11 to 16Challenge Level

The clues for this Sudoku are the product of the numbers in adjacent squares.

Tom's Number

Age 7 to 11Challenge Level

Work out Tom's number from the answers he gives his friend. He will only answer 'yes' or 'no'.

The Remainders Game

Age 7 to 14Challenge Level

Play this game and see if you can figure out the computer's chosen number.

Power Crazy

Age 11 to 14Challenge Level

What can you say about the values of n that make $7^n + 3^n$ a multiple of 10? Are there other pairs of integers between 1 and 10 which have similar properties?

Spelling Circle

Age 7 to 11Challenge Level

Find the words hidden inside each of the circles by counting around a certain number of spaces to find each letter in turn.

Age 11 to 14Challenge Level

Great Granddad is very proud of his telegram from the Queen congratulating him on his hundredth birthday and he has friends who are even older than he is... When was he born?

Three Times Seven

Age 11 to 14Challenge Level

A three digit number abc is always divisible by 7 when 2a+3b+c is divisible by 7. Why?

Have You Got It?

Age 11 to 14Challenge Level

Can you explain the strategy for winning this game with any target?

Give Me Four Clues

Age 7 to 11Challenge Level

There are eight clues to help you find the mystery number on the grid. Four of them are helpful but the other four aren't! Can you sort out the clues and find the number?

Multiples Sudoku

Age 11 to 14Challenge Level

Each clue in this Sudoku is the product of the two numbers in adjacent cells.

Factors and Multiples Puzzle

Age 11 to 14Challenge Level

Using your knowledge of the properties of numbers, can you fill all the squares on the board?

Got it for Two

Age 7 to 14Challenge Level

Got It game for an adult and child. How can you play so that you know you will always win?

A First Product Sudoku

Age 7 to 14Challenge Level

Given the products of adjacent cells, can you complete this Sudoku?

Number Families

Age 11 to 14Challenge Level

How many different number families can you find?

Playing with Factors and Multiples

Age 5 to 11

This article for primary teachers outlines why developing an intuitive 'feel' for numbers matters, and how our activities focusing on factors and multiples can help.

Age 11 to 14Challenge Level

List any 3 numbers. It is always possible to find a subset of adjacent numbers that add up to a multiple of 3. Can you explain why and prove it?

One to Eight

Age 11 to 14Challenge Level

Complete the following expressions so that each one gives a four digit number as the product of two two digit numbers and uses the digits 1 to 8 once and only once.

Cogs

Age 11 to 14Challenge Level

A and B are two interlocking cogwheels having p teeth and q teeth respectively. One tooth on B is painted red. Find the values of p and q for which the red tooth on B contacts every gap on the. . . .

Transposition Cipher

Age 11 to 16Challenge Level

Can you work out what size grid you need to read our secret message?

Inclusion Exclusion

Age 11 to 14Challenge Level

How many integers between 1 and 1200 are NOT multiples of any of the numbers 2, 3 or 5?

Which Is Quicker?

Age 7 to 11Challenge Level

Which is quicker, counting up to 30 in ones or counting up to 300 in tens? Why?

Factoring Factorials

Age 11 to 14Challenge Level

Find the highest power of 11 that will divide into 1000! exactly.

Money Measure

Age 7 to 11Challenge Level

How can you use just one weighing to find out which box contains the lighter ten coins out of the ten boxes?

Thirty Six Exactly

Age 11 to 14Challenge Level

The number 12 = 2^2 × 3 has 6 factors. What is the smallest natural number with exactly 36 factors?

Crossings

Age 7 to 11Challenge Level

In this problem we are looking at sets of parallel sticks that cross each other. What is the least number of crossings you can make? And the greatest?

Eminit

Age 11 to 14Challenge Level

The number 8888...88M9999...99 is divisible by 7 and it starts with the digit 8 repeated 50 times and ends with the digit 9 repeated 50 times. What is the value of the digit M?