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Divisibility. Working systematically. Place value. Factors and multiples. Interactivities. Generalising. Addition & subtraction. Multiplication & division. Odd and even numbers. Properties of numbers.There are 135 results
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What Two ...?
Age 7 to 11 Short Challenge Level:
56 406 is the product of two consecutive numbers. What are these two numbers?
Clever Santa
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
All the girls would like a puzzle each for Christmas and all the boys would like a book each. Solve the riddle to find out how many puzzles and books Santa left.
Being Resilient - Primary Number
Age 5 to 11 Challenge Level:
Number problems at primary level that may require resilience.
Ducking and Dividing
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
Your vessel, the Starship Diophantus, has become damaged in deep space. Can you use your knowledge of times tables and some lightning reflexes to survive?
Surprising Split
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
Does this 'trick' for calculating multiples of 11 always work? Why or why not?
1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
Using the numbers 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 once and only once, and the operations x and ÷ once and only once, what is the smallest whole number you can make?
Tom's Number
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
Work out Tom's number from the answers he gives his friend. He will only answer 'yes' or 'no'.
Divide it Out
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
What is the lowest number which always leaves a remainder of 1 when divided by each of the numbers from 2 to 10?
Book Codes
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
Look on the back of any modern book and you will find an ISBN code. Take this code and calculate this sum in the way shown. Can you see what the answers always have in common?
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?
3388
Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:
Using some or all of the operations of addition, subtraction, multiplication and division and using the digits 3, 3, 8 and 8 each once and only once make an expression equal to 24.
One Million to Seven
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
Start by putting one million (1 000 000) into the display of your calculator. Can you reduce this to 7 using just the 7 key and add, subtract, multiply, divide and equals as many times as you like?
Please Explain
Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:
Visitors to Earth from the distant planet of Zub-Zorna were amazed when they found out that when the digits in this multiplication were reversed, the answer was the same! Find a way to explain. . . .
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.
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.
Super Shapes
Age 7 to 11 Short Challenge Level:
The value of the circle changes in each of the following problems. Can you discover its value in each problem?
A First Product Sudoku
Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:
Given the products of adjacent cells, can you complete this Sudoku?
Oh! Hidden Inside?
Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:
Find the number which has 8 divisors, such that the product of the divisors is 331776.
Power Mad!
Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:
Powers of numbers behave in surprising ways. Take a look at some of these and try to explain why they are true.
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?
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?
Difficulties with Division
Age 5 to 11
This article for teachers looks at how teachers can use problems from the NRICH site to help them teach division.
Looking at Lego
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
This task offers an opportunity to explore all sorts of number relationships, but particularly multiplication.
Amy's Dominoes
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
Amy has a box containing domino pieces but she does not think it is a complete set. She has 24 dominoes in her box and there are 125 spots on them altogether. Which of her domino pieces are missing?
Eminit
Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:
The number 8888...88M9999...99 is divisible by 7 and it starts with the digit 8 repeated 50 times and ends with the digit 9 repeated 50 times. What is the value of the digit M?
Two Many
Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:
What is the least square number which commences with six two's?
Long Multiplication
Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:
A 3 digit number is multiplied by a 2 digit number and the calculation is written out as shown with a digit in place of each of the *'s. Complete the whole multiplication sum.
Ones Only
Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:
Find the smallest whole number which, when mutiplied by 7, gives a product consisting entirely of ones.
Escape from the Castle
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
Skippy and Anna are locked in a room in a large castle. The key to that room, and all the other rooms, is a number. The numbers are locked away in a problem. Can you help them to get out?
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?
Remainders
Age 7 to 14 Challenge Level:
I'm thinking of a number. My number is both a multiple of 5 and a multiple of 6. What could my number be?
Jumping
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
After training hard, these two children have improved their results. Can you work out the length or height of their first jumps?
Square Subtraction
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
Look at what happens when you take a number, square it and subtract your answer. What kind of number do you get? Can you prove it?
Learning Times Tables
Age 5 to 11 Challenge Level:
In November, Liz was interviewed for an article on a parents' website about learning times tables. Read the article here.
Multiples Sudoku
Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:
Each clue in this Sudoku is the product of the two numbers in adjacent cells.
Like Powers
Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:
Investigate $1^n + 19^n + 20^n + 51^n + 57^n + 80^n + 82^n $ and $2^n + 12^n + 31^n + 40^n + 69^n + 71^n + 85^n$ for different values of n.
Six Numbered Cubes
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
This task combines spatial awareness with addition and multiplication.
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?
Four Go for Two
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
Four Go game for an adult and child. Will you be the first to have four numbers in a row on the number line?
Current Playing with Number Upper Primary Teacher
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
Resources to support understanding of multiplication and division through playing with number.
X Marks the Spot
Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:
When the number x 1 x x x is multiplied by 417 this gives the answer 9 x x x 0 5 7. Find the missing digits, each of which is represented by an "x" .
Six Ten Total
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
This challenge combines addition, multiplication, perseverance and even proof.
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?
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!
Magic Potting Sheds
Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:
Mr McGregor has a magic potting shed. Overnight, the number of plants in it doubles. He'd like to put the same number of plants in each of three gardens, planting one garden each day. Can he do it?
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?
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.
NRICH is part of the family of activities in the Millennium Mathematics Project.