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Cuisenaire Environment
Age 5 to 11 Challenge Level:
An environment which simulates working with Cuisenaire rods.
Cuisenaire Counting
Age 5 to 7 Challenge Level:
Here are some rods that are different colours. How could I make a dark green rod using yellow and white rods?
Same Length Trains
Age 5 to 7 Challenge Level:
How many trains can you make which are the same length as Matt's, using rods that are identical?
Beads
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
Three beads are threaded on a circular wire and are coloured either red or blue. Can you find all four different combinations?
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?
Teddy Town
Age 5 to 14 Challenge Level:
There are nine teddies in Teddy Town - three red, three blue and three yellow. There are also nine houses, three of each colour. Can you put them on the map of Teddy Town according to the rules?
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....?
Code Breaker
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
This problem is based on a code using two different prime numbers less than 10. You'll need to multiply them together and shift the alphabet forwards by the result. Can you decipher the code?
Three Ball Line Up
Age 5 to 7 Challenge Level:
Use the interactivity to help get a feel for this problem and to find out all the possible ways the balls could land.
Making Trains
Age 5 to 7 Challenge Level:
Can you make a train the same length as Laura's but using three differently coloured rods? Is there only one way of doing it?
Growing Garlic
Age 5 to 7 Challenge Level:
Ben and his mum are planting garlic. Use the interactivity to help you find out how many cloves of garlic they might have had.
Tessellate the Triominoes
Age 5 to 7 Challenge Level:
What happens when you try and fit the triomino pieces into these two grids?
Find the Difference
Age 5 to 7 Challenge Level:
Place the numbers 1 to 6 in the circles so that each number is the difference between the two numbers just below it.
Difference
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
Place the numbers 1 to 10 in the circles so that each number is the difference between the two numbers just below it.
Are You Well Balanced?
Age 5 to 7 Challenge Level:
Can you work out how to balance this equaliser? You can put more than one weight on a hook.
Getting the Balance
Age 5 to 7 Challenge Level:
If you hang two weights on one side of this balance, in how many different ways can you hang three weights on the other side for it to be balanced?
Times Tables Shifts
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
In this activity, the computer chooses a times table and shifts it. Can you work out the table and the shift each time?
Junior Frogs
Age 5 to 11 Challenge Level:
Have a go at this well-known challenge. Can you swap the frogs and toads in as few slides and jumps as possible?
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?
Multiples Grid
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
What do the numbers shaded in blue on this hundred square have in common? What do you notice about the pink numbers? How about the shaded numbers in the other squares?
Winning the Lottery
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
Try out the lottery that is played in a far-away land. What is the chance of winning?
Rod Ratios
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
Use the Cuisenaire rods environment to investigate ratio. Can you find pairs of rods in the ratio 3:2? How about 9:6?
Triangles All Around
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
Can you find all the different triangles on these peg boards, and find their angles?
Fair Exchange
Age 5 to 7 Challenge Level:
In your bank, you have three types of coins. The number of spots shows how much they are worth. Can you choose coins to exchange with the groups given to make the same total?
Sorting Symmetries
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
Find out how we can describe the "symmetries" of this triangle and investigate some combinations of rotating and flipping it.
Turning
Age 5 to 7 Challenge Level:
Use your mouse to move the red and green parts of this disc. Can you make images which show the turnings described?
Train for Two
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
Train game for an adult and child. Who will be the first to make the train?
Fractions and Coins Game
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
Work out the fractions to match the cards with the same amount of money.
Change Around
Age 5 to 7 Challenge Level:
Move just three of the circles so that the triangle faces in the opposite direction.
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?
First Connect Three for Two
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
First Connect Three game for an adult and child. Use the dice numbers and either addition or subtraction to get three numbers in a straight line.
More Transformations on a Pegboard
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
Use the interactivity to find all the different right-angled triangles you can make by just moving one corner of the starting triangle.
Triangle Edges
Age 5 to 7 Challenge Level:
How many triangles can you make using sticks that are 3cm, 4cm and 5cm long?
Two and One
Age 5 to 7 Challenge Level:
Terry and Ali are playing a game with three balls. Is it fair that Terry wins when the middle ball is red?
A Square of Numbers
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
Can you put the numbers 1 to 8 into the circles so that the four calculations are correct?
Tetrafit
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
A tetromino is made up of four squares joined edge to edge. Can this tetromino, together with 15 copies of itself, be used to cover an eight by eight chessboard?
Inside Triangles
Age 5 to 7 Challenge Level:
How many different triangles can you draw on the dotty grid which each have one dot in the middle?
Sort the Street
Age 5 to 7 Challenge Level:
Sort the houses in my street into different groups. Can you do it in any other ways?
Ladybird Box
Age 5 to 11 Challenge Level:
Place six toy ladybirds into the box so that there are two ladybirds in every column and every row.
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.
Chocolate Bars
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
An interactive game to be played on your own or with friends. Imagine you are having a party. Each person takes it in turns to stand behind the chair where they will get the most chocolate.
Triangle Animals
Age 5 to 7 Challenge Level:
How many different ways can you find to join three equilateral triangles together? Can you convince us that you have found them all?
Counters
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
Hover your mouse over the counters to see which ones will be removed. Click to remove them. The winner is the last one to remove a counter. How you can make sure you win?
Incey Wincey Spider for Two
Age 5 to 7 Challenge Level:
Incey Wincey Spider game for an adult and child. Will Incey get to the top of the drainpipe?
Stop the Clock for Two
Age 5 to 7 Challenge Level:
Stop the Clock game for an adult and child. How can you make sure you always win this game?
Colour Wheels
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
Imagine a wheel with different markings painted on it at regular intervals. Can you predict the colour of the 18th mark? The 100th mark?
NRICH is part of the family of activities in the Millennium Mathematics Project.