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Combinations. Investigations. Factors and multiples. Games. Interactivities. Addition & subtraction. Visualising. Generalising. Odd and even numbers. Working systematically.There are 64 results
Broad Topics > Numbers and the Number System > Odd and even numbers
Arrangements
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
Is it possible to place 2 counters on the 3 by 3 grid so that there is an even number of counters in every row and every column? How about if you have 3 counters or 4 counters or....?
Red Even
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
You have 4 red and 5 blue counters. How many ways can they be placed on a 3 by 3 grid so that all the rows columns and diagonals have an even number of red counters?
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.
What Could it Be?
Age 5 to 7 Challenge Level:
In this calculation, the box represents a missing digit. What could the digit be? What would the solution be in each case?
How Odd
Age 5 to 7 Challenge Level:
This problem challenges you to find out how many odd numbers there are between pairs of numbers. Can you find a pair of numbers that has four odds between them?
Domino Sorting
Age 5 to 7 Challenge Level:
Try grouping the dominoes in the ways described. Are there any left over each time? Can you explain why?
Carroll Diagrams
Age 5 to 11 Challenge Level:
Use the interactivities to fill in these Carroll diagrams. How do you know where to place the numbers?
One of Thirty-six
Age 5 to 7 Challenge Level:
Can you find the chosen number from the grid using the clues?
Part the Piles
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
Try to stop your opponent from being able to split the piles of counters into unequal numbers. Can you find a strategy?
Break it Up!
Age 5 to 11 Challenge Level:
In how many different ways can you break up a stick of 7 interlocking cubes? Now try with a stick of 8 cubes and a stick of 6 cubes.
Play to 37
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
In this game for two players, the idea is to take it in turns to choose 1, 3, 5 or 7. The winner is the first to make the total 37.
Number Round Up
Age 5 to 7 Challenge Level:
Arrange the numbers 1 to 6 in each set of circles below. The sum of each side of the triangle should equal the number in its centre.
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.
Take Three Numbers
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
What happens when you add three numbers together? Will your answer be odd or even? How do you know?
Number Differences
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
Place the numbers from 1 to 9 in the squares below so that the difference between joined squares is odd. How many different ways can you do this?
More Numbers in the Ring
Age 5 to 7 Challenge Level:
If there are 3 squares in the ring, can you place three different numbers in them so that their differences are odd? Try with different numbers of squares around the ring. What do you notice?
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?
Curious Number
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
Can you order the digits from 1-3 to make a number which is divisible by 3 so when the last digit is removed it becomes a 2-figure number divisible by 2, and so on?
Pairs of Numbers
Age 5 to 7 Challenge Level:
If you have ten counters numbered 1 to 10, how many can you put into pairs that add to 10? Which ones do you have to leave out? Why?
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?
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?
Odd Squares
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
Think of a number, square it and subtract your starting number. Is the number you’re left with odd or even? How do the images help to explain this?
Sets of Four Numbers
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
There are ten children in Becky's group. Can you find a set of numbers for each of them? Are there any other sets?
Sorting Numbers
Age 5 to 7 Challenge Level:
Can you sort numbers into sets? Can you give each set a name?
More Carroll Diagrams
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
How have the numbers been placed in this Carroll diagram? Which labels would you put on each row and column?
Numbers as Shapes
Age 5 to 7 Challenge Level:
Use cubes to continue making the numbers from 7 to 20. Are they sticks, rectangles or squares?
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.
Always, Sometimes or Never?
Age 5 to 11 Challenge Level:
Are these statements relating to odd and even numbers always true, sometimes true or never true?
Cube Bricks and Daisy Chains
Age 5 to 7 Challenge Level:
Daisy and Akram were making number patterns. Daisy was using beads that looked like flowers and Akram was using cube bricks. First they were counting in twos.
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.
Sets of Numbers
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
How many different sets of numbers with at least four members can you find in the numbers in this box?
I Like ...
Age 5 to 7 Challenge Level:
Mr Gilderdale is playing a game with his class. What rule might he have chosen? How would you test your idea?
Always, Sometimes or Never? Number
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
Are these statements always true, sometimes true or never true?
Largest Even
Age 5 to 7 Challenge Level:
How would you create the largest possible two-digit even number from the digit I've given you and one of your choice?
Pairs of Legs
Age 5 to 7 Challenge Level:
How many legs do each of these creatures have? How many pairs is that?
Two Numbers Under the Microscope
Age 5 to 7 Challenge Level:
This investigates one particular property of number by looking closely at an example of adding two odd numbers together.
Odd Times Even
Age 5 to 7 Challenge Level:
This problem looks at how one example of your choice can show something about the general structure of multiplication.
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?
Light the Lights
Age 5 to 7 Challenge Level:
Investigate which numbers make these lights come on. What is the smallest number you can find that lights up all the lights?
Next-door Numbers
Age 5 to 7 Challenge Level:
Florence, Ethan and Alma have each added together two 'next-door' numbers. What is the same about their answers?
Even and Odd
Age 5 to 7 Challenge Level:
This activity is best done with a whole class or in a large group. Can you match the cards? What happens when you add pairs of the numbers together?
Grouping Goodies
Age 5 to 7 Challenge Level:
Pat counts her sweets in different groups and both times she has some left over. How many sweets could she have had?
Diagonal Trace
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
You can trace over all of the diagonals of a pentagon without lifting your pencil and without going over any more than once. Can the same thing be done with a hexagon or with a heptagon?
Magic Vs
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
Can you put the numbers 1-5 in the V shape so that both 'arms' have the same total?
Three Spinners
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
These red, yellow and blue spinners were each spun 45 times in total. Can you work out which numbers are on each spinner?
Make 37
Age 7 to 14 Challenge Level:
Four bags contain a large number of 1s, 3s, 5s and 7s. Pick any ten numbers from the bags above so that their total is 37.
NRICH is part of the family of activities in the Millennium Mathematics Project.