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Mathematical reasoning & proof. Combinatorics. Permutations. Describing Sequences. Combinations. Working systematically. Counting. Addition & subtraction. Investigations. Selecting and using information.There are 65 results
Broad Topics > Calculations and Numerical Methods > Addition & subtraction
Postage
Age 14 to 16 Challenge Level:
The country Sixtania prints postage stamps with only three values 6 lucres, 10 lucres and 15 lucres (where the currency is in lucres).Which values cannot be made up with combinations of these postage. . . .
Plants
Age 5 to 14 Challenge Level:
Three children are going to buy some plants for their birthdays. They will plant them within circular paths. How could they do this?
And So on and So On
Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:
If you wrote all the possible four digit numbers made by using each of the digits 2, 4, 5, 7 once, what would they add up to?
More Plant Spaces
Age 7 to 14 Challenge Level:
This challenging activity involves finding different ways to distribute fifteen items among four sets, when the sets must include three, four, five and six items.
More Children and Plants
Age 7 to 14 Challenge Level:
This challenge extends the Plants investigation so now four or more children are involved.
Pole Star Sudoku 2
Age 11 to 16 Challenge Level:
This Sudoku, based on differences. Using the one clue number can you find the solution?
Constellation Sudoku
Age 14 to 18 Challenge Level:
Special clue numbers related to the difference between numbers in two adjacent cells and values of the stars in the "constellation" make this a doubly interesting problem.
Eight Dominoes
Age 7 to 16 Challenge Level:
Using the 8 dominoes make a square where each of the columns and rows adds up to 8
Clocked
Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:
Is it possible to rearrange the numbers 1,2......12 around a clock face in such a way that every two numbers in adjacent positions differ by any of 3, 4 or 5 hours?
Number Daisy
Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:
Can you find six numbers to go in the Daisy from which you can make all the numbers from 1 to a number bigger than 25?
Pairs
Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:
Ann thought of 5 numbers and told Bob all the sums that could be made by adding the numbers in pairs. The list of sums is 6, 7, 8, 8, 9, 9, 10,10, 11, 12. Help Bob to find out which numbers Ann was. . . .
Making Maths: Double-sided Magic Square
Age 7 to 14 Challenge Level:
Make your own double-sided magic square. But can you complete both sides once you've made the pieces?
Score
Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:
There are exactly 3 ways to add 4 odd numbers to get 10. Find all the ways of adding 8 odd numbers to get 20. To be sure of getting all the solutions you will need to be systematic. What about. . . .
Top-heavy Pyramids
Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:
Use the numbers in the box below to make the base of a top-heavy pyramid whose top number is 200.
Cunning Card Trick
Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:
Delight your friends with this cunning trick! Can you explain how it works?
Multiply the Addition Square
Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:
If you take a three by three square on a 1-10 addition square and multiply the diagonally opposite numbers together, what is the difference between these products. Why?
Making Sense of Positives and Negatives
Age 11 to 14
This article suggests some ways of making sense of calculations involving positive and negative numbers.
Jugs of Wine
Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:
You have four jugs of 9, 7, 4 and 2 litres capacity. The 9 litre jug is full of wine, the others are empty. Can you divide the wine into three equal quantities?
Subtraction Surprise
Age 7 to 14 Challenge Level:
Try out some calculations. Are you surprised by the results?
Magic Squares
Age 14 to 18
An account of some magic squares and their properties and and how to construct them for yourself.
Double Digit
Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:
Choose two digits and arrange them to make two double-digit numbers. Now add your double-digit numbers. Now add your single digit numbers. Divide your double-digit answer by your single-digit answer. . . .
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?
Weights
Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:
Different combinations of the weights available allow you to make different totals. Which totals can you make?
Number Pyramids
Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:
Try entering different sets of numbers in the number pyramids. How does the total at the top change?
Countdown Fractions
Age 11 to 16 Challenge Level:
Here is a chance to play a fractions version of the classic Countdown Game.
Adding All Nine
Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:
Make a set of numbers that use all the digits from 1 to 9, once and once only. Add them up. The result is divisible by 9. Add each of the digits in the new number. What is their sum? Now try some. . . .
Twenty20
Age 7 to 16 Challenge Level:
Fancy a game of cricket? Here is a mathematical version you can play indoors without breaking any windows.
Crossed Ends
Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:
Crosses can be drawn on number grids of various sizes. What do you notice when you add opposite ends?
2010: A Year of Investigations
Age 5 to 14
This article for teachers suggests ideas for activities built around 10 and 2010.
Arrange the Digits
Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:
Can you arrange the digits 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9 into three 3-digit numbers such that their total is close to 1500?
Countdown
Age 7 to 14 Challenge Level:
Here is a chance to play a version of the classic Countdown Game.
Consecutive Negative Numbers
Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:
Do you notice anything about the solutions when you add and/or subtract consecutive negative numbers?
Largest Number
Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:
What is the largest number you can make using the three digits 2, 3 and 4 in any way you like, using any operations you like? You can only use each digit once.
Magic Squares for Special Occasions
Age 11 to 16
This article explains how to make your own magic square to mark a special occasion with the special date of your choice on the top line.
As Easy as 1,2,3
Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:
When I type a sequence of letters my calculator gives the product of all the numbers in the corresponding memories. What numbers should I store so that when I type 'ONE' it returns 1, and when I type. . . .
Have You Got It?
Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:
Can you explain the strategy for winning this game with any target?
Alphabetti Sudoku
Age 11 to 16 Challenge Level:
This Sudoku requires you to do some working backwards before working forwards.
Digit Sum
Age 14 to 16 Short Challenge Level:
What is the sum of all the digits in all the integers from one to one million?
Always the Same
Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:
Arrange the numbers 1 to 16 into a 4 by 4 array. Choose a number. Cross out the numbers on the same row and column. Repeat this process. Add up you four numbers. Why do they always add up to 34?
Adding and Subtracting Positive and Negative Numbers
Age 11 to 14
How can we help students make sense of addition and subtraction of negative numbers?
Football Sum
Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:
Find the values of the nine letters in the sum: FOOT + BALL = GAME
The Patent Solution
Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:
A combination mechanism for a safe comprises thirty-two tumblers numbered from one to thirty-two in such a way that the numbers in each wheel total 132... Could you open the safe?
An Introduction to Magic Squares
Age 7 to 16
Find out about Magic Squares in this article written for students. Why are they magic?!
Cubes Within Cubes
Age 7 to 14 Challenge Level:
We start with one yellow cube and build around it to make a 3x3x3 cube with red cubes. Then we build around that red cube with blue cubes and so on. How many cubes of each colour have we used?
Charitable Pennies
Age 7 to 14 Challenge Level:
Investigate the different ways that fifteen schools could have given money in a charity fundraiser.
Connect Three
Age 11 to 16 Challenge Level:
In this game the winner is the first to complete a row of three. Are some squares easier to land on than others?
Aba
Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:
In the following sum the letters A, B, C, D, E and F stand for six distinct digits. Find all the ways of replacing the letters with digits so that the arithmetic is correct.
NRICH is part of the family of activities in the Millennium Mathematics Project.