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Addition & subtraction. Place value. Odd and even numbers. Working systematically. Multiplication & division. Mathematical reasoning & proof. Factors and multiples. Digit cards. Generalising. Comparing and ordering numbers.There are 50 results
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The Thousands Game
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
Each child in Class 3 took four numbers out of the bag. Who had made the highest even number?
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.
Diagonal Sums
Age 7 to 14 Challenge Level:
In this 100 square, look at the green square which contains the numbers 2, 3, 12 and 13. What is the sum of the numbers that are diagonally opposite each other? What do you notice?
Making Pathways
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
Can you find different ways of creating paths using these paving slabs?
Interactive Balance
Age 5 to 11 Challenge Level:
In this simulation of a balance, you can drag numbers and parts of number sentences on to the trays. Have a play!
Being Resourceful - Primary Number
Age 5 to 11 Challenge Level:
Number problems at primary level that require careful consideration.
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?
Nice or Nasty
Age 7 to 14 Challenge Level:
There are nasty versions of this dice game but we'll start with the nice ones...
Street Sequences
Age 5 to 11 Challenge Level:
Investigate what happens when you add house numbers along a street in different ways.
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?
One to Fifteen
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
Can you put the numbers from 1 to 15 on the circles so that no consecutive numbers lie anywhere along a continuous straight line?
Writ Large
Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:
Suppose you had to begin the never ending task of writing out the natural numbers: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5.... and so on. What would be the 1000th digit you would write down.
Greater Than or Less Than?
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
Use the numbers and symbols to make this number sentence correct. How many different ways can you find?
Activities on the Gattegno Chart
Age 5 to 11
In this article, Alf outlines six activities using the Gattegno chart, which help to develop understanding of place value, multiplication and division.
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?
Nice or Nasty for Two
Age 7 to 14 Challenge Level:
Some Games That May Be Nice or Nasty for an adult and child. Use your knowledge of place value to beat your opponent.
True or False?
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
Without doing lots of calculations, can you decide which of these number sentences are true? How do you know?
Sweetie Box
Age 5 to 11 Challenge Level:
Max and Bryony both have a box of sweets. What do you know about the number of sweets they each have?
More Carroll Diagrams
Age 7 to 14 Challenge Level:
How have the numbers been placed in this Carroll diagram? Which labels would you put on each row and column?
Dicey Operations
Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:
Who said that adding, subtracting, multiplying and dividing couldn't be fun?
Dicey Operations in Line for Two
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
Dicey Operations for an adult and child. Can you get close to 1000 than your partner?
Being Curious - Primary Number
Age 5 to 11 Challenge Level:
Number problems for inquiring primary learners.
Worms
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
Place this "worm" on the 100 square and find the total of the four squares it covers. Keeping its head in the same place, what other totals can you make?
Consecutive Seven
Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:
Can you arrange these numbers into 7 subsets, each of three numbers, so that when the numbers in each are added together, they make seven consecutive numbers?
Factor-multiple Chains
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
Can you see how these factor-multiple chains work? Find the chain which contains the smallest possible numbers. How about the largest possible numbers?
Carrying Cards
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
These sixteen children are standing in four lines of four, one behind the other. They are each holding a card with a number on it. Can you work out the missing numbers?
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?
Lucky Numbers
Age 5 to 11
This article for pupils explores what makes numbers special or lucky, and looks at the numbers that are all around us every day.
Which Scripts?
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
There are six numbers written in five different scripts. Can you sort out which is which?
Highest and Lowest
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
Put operations signs between the numbers 3 4 5 6 to make the highest possible number and lowest possible number.
Would You Rather?
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
Would you rather: Have 10% of £5 or 75% of 80p? Be given 60% of 2 pizzas or 26% of 5 pizzas?
Multiplication Square Jigsaw
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
Can you complete this jigsaw of the multiplication square?
Greetings
Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:
From a group of any 4 students in a class of 30, each has exchanged Christmas cards with the other three. Show that some students have exchanged cards with all the other students in the class. How. . . .
The Magic Number and the Hepta-tree
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
Find the exact difference between the largest ball and the smallest ball on the Hepta Tree and then use this to work out the MAGIC NUMBER!
Truth or Lie
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
Take a look at the video of this trick. Can you perform it yourself? Why is this maths and not magic?
Sort Them Out (2)
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
Can you each work out the number on your card? What do you notice? How could you sort the cards?
Fractions Made Faster
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
Use the fraction wall to compare the size of these fractions - you'll be amazed how it helps!
Move a Match
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
How can you arrange these 10 matches in four piles so that when you move one match from three of the piles into the fourth, you end up with the same arrangement?
Dominoes Environment
Age 5 to 11 Challenge Level:
These interactive dominoes can be dragged around the screen.
Euromaths
Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:
How many ways can you write the word EUROMATHS by starting at the top left hand corner and taking the next letter by stepping one step down or one step to the right in a 5x5 array?
Rod Fractions
Age 7 to 14 Challenge Level:
Pick two rods of different colours. Given an unlimited supply of rods of each of the two colours, how can we work out what fraction the shorter rod is of the longer one?
Olympic Starters
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
Look at some of the results from the Olympic Games in the past. How do you compare if you try some similar activities?
Now and Then
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
Look at the changes in results on some of the athletics track events at the Olympic Games in 1908 and 1948. Compare the results for 2012.
Farey Sequences
Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:
There are lots of ideas to explore in these sequences of ordered fractions.
Mathland Election
Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:
A political commentator summed up an election result. Given that there were just four candidates and that the figures quoted were exact find the number of votes polled for each candidate.
Number Lines in Disguise
Age 7 to 14 Challenge Level:
Some of the numbers have fallen off Becky's number line. Can you figure out what they were?
NRICH is part of the family of activities in the Millennium Mathematics Project.