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Making and proving conjectures. Mathematical reasoning & proof. Addition & subtraction. Factors and multiples. Interactivities. Games. Working systematically. Generalising. Visualising. Creating and manipulating expressions and formulae.There are 140 results
Broad Topics > Numbers and the Number System > Factors and multiples
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?
Diagonal Product Sudoku
Age 11 to 16 Challenge Level:
Given the products of diagonally opposite cells - can you complete this Sudoku?
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.
Neighbourly Addition
Age 7 to 14 Challenge Level:
I added together some of my neighbours' house numbers. Can you explain the patterns I noticed?
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?
Multiplication Square Jigsaw
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
Can you complete this jigsaw of the multiplication square?
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?
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.
Cuboids
Age 11 to 14 Challenge 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?
Factors and Multiples - Secondary Resources
Age 11 to 16 Challenge Level:
A collection of resources to support work on Factors and Multiples at Secondary level.
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?
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?
Charlie's Delightful Machine
Age 11 to 16 Challenge Level:
Here is a machine with four coloured lights. Can you develop a strategy to work out the rules controlling each light?
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.
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.
Factors and Multiples Game
Age 7 to 16 Challenge Level:
A game in which players take it in turns to choose a number. Can you block your opponent?
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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
Stars
Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:
Can you find a relationship between the number of dots on the circle and the number of steps that will ensure that all points are hit?
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?
Product Sudoku
Age 11 to 16 Challenge Level:
The clues for this Sudoku are the product of the numbers in adjacent squares.
Always, Sometimes or Never? Number
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
Are these statements always true, sometimes true or never true?
Tiling
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
An investigation that gives you the opportunity to make and justify predictions.
Star Product Sudoku
Age 11 to 16 Challenge 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.
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.
A First Product Sudoku
Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:
Given the products of adjacent cells, can you complete this Sudoku?
The Remainders Game
Age 7 to 14 Challenge Level:
Play this game and see if you can figure out the computer's chosen number.
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?
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?
How Old Are the Children?
Age 11 to 14 Challenge 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?"
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?
Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:
Imagine we have four bags containing a large number of 1s, 4s, 7s and 10s. What numbers can we make?
Shopping Basket
Age 11 to 16 Challenge Level:
The items in the shopping basket add and multiply to give the same amount. What could their prices be?
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?
Becky's Number Plumber
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
Becky created a number plumber which multiplies by 5 and subtracts 4. What do you notice about the numbers that it produces? Can you explain your findings?
Rearranged Rectangle
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
How many different rectangles can you make using this set of rods?
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 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?
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...
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?
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?
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...
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?
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?
Fitted
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
Nine squares with side lengths 1, 4, 7, 8, 9, 10, 14, 15, and 18 cm can be fitted together to form a rectangle. What are the dimensions of the rectangle?
Multiply Multiples 2
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
Can you work out some different ways to balance this equation?
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