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Money Line-up
Age 5 to 7 Challenge Level:
In this game for two players, the aim is to make a row of four coins which total one dollar.
Double or Halve?
Age 5 to 7 Challenge Level:
Throw the dice and decide whether to double or halve the number. Will you be the first to reach the target?
Difference
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
Place the numbers 1 to 10 in the circles so that each number is the difference between the two numbers just below it.
Pass the Peas, Please
Age 5 to 7 Challenge Level:
A game for 2 or more players. Practise your addition and subtraction with the aid of a game board and some dried peas!
Ladybird Box
Age 5 to 11 Challenge Level:
Place six toy ladybirds into the box so that there are two ladybirds in every column and every row.
A Square of Numbers
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
Can you put the numbers 1 to 8 into the circles so that the four calculations are correct?
1, 2, 3 Magic Square
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
Arrange three 1s, three 2s and three 3s in this square so that every row, column and diagonal adds to the same total.
Here to There 1 2 3
Age 5 to 7 Challenge Level:
Move from the START to the FINISH by moving across or down to the next square. Can you find a route to make these totals?
Robot Monsters
Age 5 to 7 Challenge Level:
Use these head, body and leg pieces to make Robot Monsters which are different heights.
Code Breaker
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
This problem is based on a code using two different prime numbers less than 10. You'll need to multiply them together and shift the alphabet forwards by the result. Can you decipher the code?
The Clockmaker's Birthday Cake
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
The clockmaker's wife cut up his birthday cake to look like a clock face. Can you work out who received each piece?
Five Coins
Age 5 to 11 Challenge Level:
Ben has five coins in his pocket. How much money might he have?
The Puzzling Sweet Shop
Age 5 to 11 Challenge Level:
There were chews for 2p, mini eggs for 3p, Chocko bars for 5p and lollypops for 7p in the sweet shop. What could each of the children buy with their money?
Routes 1 and 5
Age 5 to 7 Challenge Level:
Find your way through the grid starting at 2 and following these operations. What number do you end on?
Pouring the Punch Drink
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
There are 4 jugs which hold 9 litres, 7 litres, 4 litres and 2 litres. Find a way to pour 9 litres of drink from one jug to another until you are left with exactly 3 litres in three of the jugs.
Adding Plus
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
Can you put plus signs in so this is true? 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 = 99 How many ways can you do it?
The Money Maze
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
Go through the maze, collecting and losing your money as you go. Which route gives you the highest return? And the lowest?
Domino Numbers
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
Can you see why 2 by 2 could be 5? Can you predict what 2 by 10 will be?
Painting Possibilities
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
This task, written for the National Young Mathematicians' Award 2016, involves open-topped boxes made with interlocking cubes. Explore the number of units of paint that are needed to cover the boxes. . . .
Napier's Bones
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
The Scot, John Napier, invented these strips about 400 years ago to help calculate multiplication and division. Can you work out how to use Napier's bones to find the answer to these multiplications?
Calendar Calculations
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
Try adding together the dates of all the days in one week. Now multiply the first date by 7 and add 21. Can you explain what happens?
Number Juggle
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
Fill in the missing numbers so that adding each pair of corner numbers gives you the number between them (in the box).
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.
Reverse Trick
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
Tell your friends that you have a strange calculator that turns numbers backwards. What secret number do you have to enter to make 141 414 turn around?
Maze 100
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
Can you go through this maze so that the numbers you pass add to exactly 100?
Starfish Spotting
Age 5 to 7 Challenge Level:
How many starfish could there be on the beach, and how many children, if I can see 28 arms?
A Rod and a Pole
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
A lady has a steel rod and a wooden pole and she knows the length of each. How can she measure out an 8 unit piece of pole?
Domino Join Up
Age 5 to 7 Challenge Level:
Can you arrange fifteen dominoes so that all the touching domino pieces add to 6 and the ends join up? Can you make all the joins add to 7?
Homes
Age 5 to 7 Challenge Level:
There are to be 6 homes built on a new development site. They could be semi-detached, detached or terraced houses. How many different combinations of these can you find?
Fair Exchange
Age 5 to 7 Challenge Level:
In your bank, you have three types of coins. The number of spots shows how much they are worth. Can you choose coins to exchange with the groups given to make the same total?
Hubble, Bubble
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
Winifred Wytsh bought a box each of jelly babies, milk jelly bears, yellow jelly bees and jelly belly beans. In how many different ways could she make a jolly jelly feast with 32 legs?
On Target
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
You have 5 darts and your target score is 44. How many different ways could you score 44?
How Much Did it Cost?
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
Use your logical-thinking skills to deduce how much Dan's crisps and ice-cream cost altogether.
Rod Measures
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
Using 3 rods of integer lengths, none longer than 10 units and not using any rod more than once, you can measure all the lengths in whole units from 1 to 10 units. How many ways can you do this?
Big Dog, Little Dog
Age 5 to 7 Challenge Level:
Woof is a big dog. Yap is a little dog. Emma has 16 dog biscuits to give to the two dogs. She gave Woof 4 more biscuits than Yap. How many biscuits did each dog get?
Magic Triangle
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
Place the digits 1 to 9 into the circles so that each side of the triangle adds to the same total.
Christmas Shopping
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
Vera is shopping at a market with these coins in her purse. Which things could she give exactly the right amount for?
Up and Down
Age 5 to 7 Challenge Level:
Sam got into an elevator. He went down five floors, up six floors, down seven floors, then got out on the second floor. On what floor did he get on?
The Amazing Splitting Plant
Age 5 to 7 Challenge Level:
Can you work out how many flowers there will be on the Amazing Splitting Plant after it has been growing for six weeks?
Mrs Beeswax
Age 5 to 7 Challenge Level:
In how many ways could Mrs Beeswax put ten coins into her three puddings so that each pudding ended up with at least two coins?
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?
Asteroid Blast
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
A game for 2 people. Use your skills of addition, subtraction, multiplication and division to blast the asteroids.
Ring a Ring of Numbers
Age 5 to 7 Challenge Level:
Choose four of the numbers from 1 to 9 to put in the squares so that the differences between joined squares are odd.
What's in a Name?
Age 5 to 7 Challenge Level:
What do you notice about these squares of numbers? What is the same? What is different?
Dart Target
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
This task, written for the National Young Mathematicians' Award 2016, invites you to explore the different combinations of scores that you might get on these dart boards.
Penta Post
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
Here are the prices for 1st and 2nd class mail within the UK. You have an unlimited number of each of these stamps. Which stamps would you need to post a parcel weighing 825g?
Tug of War
Age 5 to 7 Challenge Level:
Can you use the numbers on the dice to reach your end of the number line before your partner beats you?
More Playing with Number Lower Primary
Age 5 to 7
Some additional activities to develop children's understanding of addition and subtraction of number through playing with number.
Journeys
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
Investigate the different distances of these car journeys and find out how long they take.
NRICH is part of the family of activities in the Millennium Mathematics Project.