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Trial and improvement. Games. Working systematically. Factors and multiples. Combinations. Addition & subtraction. Comparing and Ordering numbers. Generalising. Investigations. Multiplication & division.There are 199 results
Broad Topics > Calculations and Numerical Methods > Addition & subtraction
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?
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?
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?
A Numbered Route
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
Can you draw a continuous line through 16 numbers on this grid so that the total of the numbers you pass through is as high as possible?
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?
Street Sequences
Age 5 to 11 Challenge Level:
Investigate what happens when you add house numbers along a street in different ways.
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?
Twizzle's Journey
Age 5 to 7 Challenge Level:
Twizzle, a female giraffe, needs transporting to another zoo. Which route will give the fastest journey?
The 24 Game
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
There are over sixty different ways of making 24 by adding, subtracting, multiplying and dividing all four numbers 4, 6, 6 and 8 (using each number only once). How many can you find?
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?
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?
Being Resourceful - Primary Number
Age 5 to 11 Challenge Level:
Number problems at primary level that require careful consideration.
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.
Spell by Numbers
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
Can you substitute numbers for the letters in these sums?
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?
Open Squares
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
This task, written for the National Young Mathematicians' Award 2016, focuses on 'open squares'. What would the next five open squares look like?
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?
Sometimes We Lose Things
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
Well now, what would happen if we lost all the nines in our number system? Have a go at writing the numbers out in this way and have a look at the multiplications table.
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?
One Wasn't Square
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
Mrs Morgan, the class's teacher, pinned numbers onto the backs of three children. Use the information to find out what the three numbers were.
The Pied Piper of Hamelin
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
This problem is based on the story of the Pied Piper of Hamelin. Investigate the different numbers of people and rats there could have been if you know how many legs there are altogether!
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.
Clock Face
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
Where can you draw a line on a clock face so that the numbers on both sides have the same total?
Throw a 100
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
Can you score 100 by throwing rings on this board? Is there more than way to do it?
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.
The Puzzling Sweet Shop
Age 7 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?
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?
Sisters and Brothers
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
Cassandra, David and Lachlan are brothers and sisters. They range in age between 1 year and 14 years. Can you figure out their exact ages from the clues?
A Mixed-up Clock
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
There is a clock-face where the numbers have become all mixed up. Can you find out where all the numbers have got to from these ten statements?
Numbered Cars
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
I was looking at the number plate of a car parked outside. Using my special code S208VBJ adds to 65. Can you crack my code and use it to find out what both of these number plates add up to?
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?
Bean Bags for Bernard's Bag
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
How could you put eight beanbags in the hoops so that there are four in the blue hoop, five in the red and six in the yellow? Can you find all the ways of doing this?
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.
Digit Addition
Age 5 to 11 Challenge Level:
Try out this number trick. What happens with different starting numbers? What do you notice?
Next Number
Age 7 to 11 Short Challenge Level:
Find the next number in this pattern: 3, 7, 19, 55 ...
Bundles of Cubes
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
Watch this animation. What do you notice? What happens when you try more or fewer cubes in a bundle?
Build it up More
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
This task follows on from Build it Up and takes the ideas into three dimensions!
Sums and Differences 2
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
Find the sum and difference between a pair of two-digit numbers. Now find the sum and difference between the sum and difference! What happens?
Sums and Differences 1
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
This challenge focuses on finding the sum and difference of pairs of two-digit numbers.
Journeys
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
Investigate the different distances of these car journeys and find out how long they take.
Journeys in Numberland
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
Tom and Ben visited Numberland. Use the maps to work out the number of points each of their routes scores.
Follow the Numbers
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
What happens when you add the digits of a number then multiply the result by 2 and you keep doing this? You could try for different numbers and different rules.
Sorting the Numbers
Age 5 to 11 Challenge Level:
Complete these two jigsaws then put one on top of the other. What happens when you add the 'touching' numbers? What happens when you change the position of the jigsaws?
How Do You Do It?
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
This group activity will encourage you to share calculation strategies and to think about which strategy might be the most efficient.
Planet Plex Time
Age 5 to 7 Challenge Level:
On Planet Plex, there are only 6 hours in the day. Can you answer these questions about how Arog the Alien spends his day?
Six Is the Sum
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
What do the digits in the number fifteen add up to? How many other numbers have digits with the same total but no zeros?
NRICH is part of the family of activities in the Millennium Mathematics Project.