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Addition & subtraction. Mathematical reasoning & proof. Creating and manipulating expressions and formulae. Visualising. Generalising. Making and proving conjectures. Working systematically. Interactivities. Games. Factors and multiples.There are 144 results
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Have You Got It?
Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:
Can you explain the strategy for winning this game with any target?
Got it for Two
Age 7 to 14 Challenge Level:
Got It game for an adult and child. How can you play so that you know you will always win?
Neighbourly Addition
Age 7 to 14 Challenge Level:
I added together some of my neighbours' house numbers. Can you explain the patterns I noticed?
Multiplication Square Jigsaw
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
Can you complete this jigsaw of the multiplication square?
Add the Weights
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
If you have only four weights, where could you place them in order to balance this equaliser?
Crossings
Age 7 to 11 Challenge 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?
Three Dice
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
Investigate the sum of the numbers on the top and bottom faces of a line of three dice. What do you notice?
Got It
Age 7 to 14 Challenge 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.
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?
Colour Wheels
Age 7 to 11 Challenge 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?
Always, Sometimes or Never? Number
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
Are these statements always true, sometimes true or never true?
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.
Mystery Matrix
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
Can you fill in this table square? The numbers 2 -12 were used to generate it with just one number used twice.
Even So
Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:
Find some triples of whole numbers a, b and c such that a^2 + b^2 + c^2 is a multiple of 4. Is it necessarily the case that a, b and c must all be even? If so, can you explain why?
The Moons of Vuvv
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
The planet of Vuvv has seven moons. Can you work out how long it is between each super-eclipse?
Diagonal Product Sudoku
Age 11 to 16 Challenge Level:
Given the products of diagonally opposite cells - can you complete this Sudoku?
Odds and Threes
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
A game for 2 people using a pack of cards Turn over 2 cards and try to make an odd number or a multiple of 3.
Down to Nothing
Age 7 to 11 Challenge 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.
Hot Pursuit
Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:
I added together the first 'n' positive integers and found that my answer was a 3 digit number in which all the digits were the same...
Cuboids
Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:
Find a cuboid (with edges of integer values) that has a surface area of exactly 100 square units. Is there more than one? Can you find them all?
Three Times Seven
Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:
A three digit number abc is always divisible by 7 when 2a+3b+c is divisible by 7. Why?
Multiplication Squares
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
Can you work out the arrangement of the digits in the square so that the given products are correct? The numbers 1 - 9 may be used once and once only.
Product Sudoku
Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:
The clues for this Sudoku are the product of the numbers in adjacent squares.
Tiling
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
An investigation that gives you the opportunity to make and justify predictions.
Factor Lines
Age 7 to 14 Challenge Level:
Arrange the four number cards on the grid, according to the rules, to make a diagonal, vertical or horizontal line.
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?
Three Neighbours
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
Look at three 'next door neighbours' amongst the counting numbers. Add them together. What do you notice?
Repeaters
Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:
Choose any 3 digits and make a 6 digit number by repeating the 3 digits in the same order (e.g. 594594). Explain why whatever digits you choose the number will always be divisible by 7, 11 and 13.
Rearranged Rectangle
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
How many different rectangles can you make using this set of rods?
Helen's Conjecture
Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:
Helen made the conjecture that "every multiple of six has more factors than the two numbers either side of it". Is this conjecture true?
Special Sums and Products
Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:
Find some examples of pairs of numbers such that their sum is a factor of their product. eg. 4 + 12 = 16 and 4 × 12 = 48 and 16 is a factor of 48.
Adding in Rows
Age 11 to 14 Challenge 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?
What Numbers Can We Make Now?
Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:
Imagine we have four bags containing numbers from a sequence. What numbers can we make now?
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?
Multiply Multiples 1
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
Can you complete this calculation by filling in the missing numbers? In how many different ways can you do it?
Which Is Quicker?
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
Which is quicker, counting up to 30 in ones or counting up to 300 in tens? Why?
Multiply Multiples 2
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
Can you work out some different ways to balance this equation?
Multiply Multiples 3
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
Have a go at balancing this equation. Can you find different ways of doing it?
Neighbours
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
In a square in which the houses are evenly spaced, numbers 3 and 10 are opposite each other. What is the smallest and what is the largest possible number of houses in the square?
Factors and Multiples Game for Two
Age 7 to 14 Challenge Level:
Factors and Multiples game for an adult and child. How can you make sure you win this game?
Give Me Four Clues
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
Four of these clues are needed to find the chosen number on this grid and four are true but do nothing to help in finding the number. Can you sort out the clues and find the number?
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?
It Figures
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
Suppose we allow ourselves to use three numbers less than 10 and multiply them together. How many different products can you find? How do you know you've got them all?
A First Product Sudoku
Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:
Given the products of adjacent cells, can you complete this Sudoku?
Scoring with Dice
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
I throw three dice and get 5, 3 and 2. Add the scores on the three dice. What do you get? Now multiply the scores. What do you notice?
American Billions
Age 11 to 14 Challenge 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...
Can You Find a Perfect Number?
Age 7 to 14
Can you find any perfect numbers? Read this article to find out more...
Number Tracks
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
Ben’s class were cutting up number tracks. First they cut them into twos and added up the numbers on each piece. What patterns could they see?
The Remainders Game
Age 7 to 14 Challenge Level:
Play this game and see if you can figure out the computer's chosen number.
NRICH is part of the family of activities in the Millennium Mathematics Project.