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An Unhappy End
Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:
Two engines, at opposite ends of a single track railway line, set off towards one another just as a fly, sitting on the front of one of the engines, sets off flying along the railway line...
Speeding Up, Slowing Down
Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:
Experiment with the interactivity of "rolling" regular polygons, and explore how the different positions of the red dot affects its speed at each stage.
Up and Across
Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:
Experiment with the interactivity of "rolling" regular polygons, and explore how the different positions of the red dot affects its vertical and horizontal movement at each stage.
How Far Does it Move?
Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:
Experiment with the interactivity of "rolling" regular polygons, and explore how the different positions of the red dot affects the distance it travels at each stage.
Konigsberg Plus
Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:
Euler discussed whether or not it was possible to stroll around Koenigsberg crossing each of its seven bridges exactly once. Experiment with different numbers of islands and bridges.
Tilted Squares
Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:
It's easy to work out the areas of most squares that we meet, but what if they were tilted?
Picturing Triangular Numbers
Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:
Triangular numbers can be represented by a triangular array of squares. What do you notice about the sum of identical triangle numbers?
Treasure Hunt
Age 7 to 14 Challenge Level:
Can you find a reliable strategy for choosing coordinates that will locate the treasure in the minimum number of guesses?
Got it Article
Age 7 to 14
This article gives you a few ideas for understanding the Got It! game and how you might find a winning strategy.
Balancing 2
Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:
Meg and Mo still need to hang their marbles so that they balance, but this time the constraints are different. Use the interactivity to experiment and find out what they need to do.
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?
Partitioning Revisited
Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:
We can show that (x + 1)² = x² + 2x + 1 by considering the area of an (x + 1) by (x + 1) square. Show in a similar way that (x + 2)² = x² + 4x + 4
More Number Pyramids
Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:
When number pyramids have a sequence on the bottom layer, some interesting patterns emerge...
Instant Insanity
Age 11 to 18 Challenge Level:
Given the nets of 4 cubes with the faces coloured in 4 colours, build a tower so that on each vertical wall no colour is repeated, that is all 4 colours appear.
Magic W
Age 14 to 16 Challenge Level:
Find all the ways of placing the numbers 1 to 9 on a W shape, with 3 numbers on each leg, so that each set of 3 numbers has the same total.
Balancing 1
Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:
Meg and Mo need to hang their marbles so that they balance. Use the interactivity to experiment and find out what they need to do.
A Tilted Square
Age 14 to 16 Challenge Level:
The opposite vertices of a square have coordinates (a,b) and (c,d). What are the coordinates of the other vertices?
More Magic Potting Sheds
Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:
The number of plants in Mr McGregor's magic potting shed increases overnight. He'd like to put the same number of plants in each of his gardens, planting one garden each day. How can he do it?
Got It
Age 7 to 14 Challenge Level:
A game for two people, or play online. Given a target number, say 23, and a range of numbers to choose from, say 1-4, players take it in turns to add to the running total to hit their target.
Have You Got It?
Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:
Can you explain the strategy for winning this game with any target?
Balancing 3
Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:
Mo has left, but Meg is still experimenting. Use the interactivity to help you find out how she can alter her pouch of marbles and still keep the two pouches balanced.
Sliding Puzzle
Age 11 to 16 Challenge Level:
The aim of the game is to slide the green square from the top right hand corner to the bottom left hand corner in the least number of moves.
Disappearing Square
Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:
Do you know how to find the area of a triangle? You can count the squares. What happens if we turn the triangle on end? Press the button and see. Try counting the number of units in the triangle now. . . .
Icosian Game
Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:
This problem is about investigating whether it is possible to start at one vertex of a platonic solid and visit every other vertex once only returning to the vertex you started at.
Factor Lines
Age 7 to 14 Challenge Level:
Arrange the four number cards on the grid, according to the rules, to make a diagonal, vertical or horizontal line.
Colour in the Square
Age 7 to 16 Challenge Level:
Can you put the 25 coloured tiles into the 5 x 5 square so that no column, no row and no diagonal line have tiles of the same colour in them?
Isosceles Triangles
Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:
Draw some isosceles triangles with an area of $9$cm$^2$ and a vertex at (20,20). If all the vertices must have whole number coordinates, how many is it possible to draw?
Cogs
Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:
A and B are two interlocking cogwheels having p teeth and q teeth respectively. One tooth on B is painted red. Find the values of p and q for which the red tooth on B contacts every gap on the. . . .
Overlap
Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:
A red square and a blue square overlap so that the corner of the red square rests on the centre of the blue square. Show that, whatever the orientation of the red square, it covers a quarter of the. . . .
Rollin' Rollin' Rollin'
Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:
Two circles of equal radius touch at P. One circle is fixed whilst the other moves, rolling without slipping, all the way round. How many times does the moving coin revolve before returning to P?
Proof Sorter - Quadratic Equation
Age 14 to 18 Challenge Level:
This is an interactivity in which you have to sort the steps in the completion of the square into the correct order to prove the formula for the solutions of quadratic equations.
Right Angles
Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:
Can you make a right-angled triangle on this peg-board by joining up three points round the edge?
Matter of Scale
Age 14 to 16 Challenge Level:
Prove Pythagoras' Theorem using enlargements and scale factors.
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?
Rolling Around
Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:
A circle rolls around the outside edge of a square so that its circumference always touches the edge of the square. Can you describe the locus of the centre of the circle?
Olympic Magic
Age 14 to 16 Challenge Level:
in how many ways can you place the numbers 1, 2, 3 … 9 in the nine regions of the Olympic Emblem (5 overlapping circles) so that the amount in each ring is the same?
Square Coordinates
Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:
A tilted square is a square with no horizontal sides. Can you devise a general instruction for the construction of a square when you are given just one of its sides?
Jam
Age 14 to 16 Challenge Level:
To avoid losing think of another very well known game where the patterns of play are similar.
Matching Fractions, Decimals and Percentages
Age 7 to 14 Challenge Level:
An activity based on the game 'Pelmanism'. Set your own level of challenge and beat your own previous best score.
Triangles in Circles
Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:
Can you find triangles on a 9-point circle? Can you work out their angles?
Flippin' Discs
Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:
Discs are flipped in the air. You win if all the faces show the same colour. What is the probability of winning?
Cosy Corner
Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:
Six balls are shaken. You win if at least one red ball ends in a corner. What is the probability of winning?
Stars
Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:
Can you find a relationship between the number of dots on the circle and the number of steps that will ensure that all points are hit?
First Connect Three
Age 7 to 14 Challenge Level:
Add or subtract the two numbers on the spinners and try to complete a row of three. Are there some numbers that are good to aim for?
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?
Countdown
Age 7 to 14 Challenge Level:
Here is a chance to play a version of the classic Countdown Game.
Fifteen
Age 7 to 14 Challenge Level:
Can you spot the similarities between this game and other games you know? The aim is to choose 3 numbers that total 15.
NRICH is part of the family of activities in the Millennium Mathematics Project.