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Two's Company
Age 11 to 14
Challenge Level
Seven balls are shaken. You win if the two blue balls end up touching. What is the probability of winning?
Which Spinners?
Age 14 to 18
Challenge Level
Can you work out which spinners were used to generate the frequency charts?
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?
Interactive Spinners
Age 11 to 14
Challenge Level
This interactivity invites you to make conjectures and explore probabilities of outcomes related to two independent events.
Red or Black Spinner
Age 3 to 16
Challenge Level
A simple spinner that is equally likely to land on Red or Black. Useful if tossing a coin, dropping it, and rummaging about on the floor have lost their appeal. Needs a modern browser; if IE then at. . . .
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?
Thank Your Lucky Stars
Age 14 to 16
Challenge Level
A counter is placed in the bottom right hand corner of a grid. You toss a coin and move the star according to the following rules: ... What is the probability that you end up in the top left-hand. . . .
Excel Interactive Resource: the up and Down Game
Age 11 to 16
Challenge Level
Use an interactive Excel spreadsheet to explore number in this exciting game!
Excel Interactive Resource: Interactive Division
Age 11 to 16
Challenge Level
Use an Excel to investigate division. Explore the relationships between the process elements using an interactive spreadsheet.
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?
Cushion Ball Interactivity
Age 14 to 16
Challenge Level
The interactive diagram has two labelled points, A and B. It is designed to be used with the problem "Cushion Ball"
Cuisenaire Environment
Age 5 to 16
Challenge Level
An environment which simulates working with Cuisenaire rods.
Excel Interactive Resource: Number Grid Functions
Age 11 to 16
Challenge Level
Use Excel to investigate the effect of translations around a number grid.
Excel Interactive Resource: Fraction Multiplication
Age 11 to 16
Challenge Level
Use Excel to explore multiplication of fractions.
Excel Interactive Resource: Equivalent Fraction Bars
Age 11 to 16
Challenge Level
A simple file for the Interactive whiteboard or PC screen, demonstrating equivalent fractions.
Excel Interactive Resource: Fraction Addition & Fraction Subtraction
Age 11 to 16
Challenge Level
Use Excel to practise adding and subtracting fractions.
Excel Interactive Resource: Haitch
Age 11 to 16
Challenge Level
An Excel spreadsheet with an investigation.
Excel Interactive Resource: Long Multiplication
Age 11 to 16
Challenge Level
Use an Excel spreadsheet to explore long multiplication.
Excel Interactive Resource: Multiples Chain
Age 11 to 16
Challenge Level
Use an interactive Excel spreadsheet to investigate factors and multiples.
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. . . .
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.
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.
Have You Got It?
Age 11 to 14
Challenge Level
Can you explain the strategy for winning this game with any target?
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.
Changing Places
Age 14 to 16
Challenge Level
Place a red counter in the top left corner of a 4x4 array, which is covered by 14 other smaller counters, leaving a gap in the bottom right hand corner (HOME). What is the smallest number of moves. . . .
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?
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?
Guesswork
Age 14 to 16
Challenge Level
Ask a friend to choose a number between 1 and 63. By identifying which of the six cards contains the number they are thinking of it is easy to tell them what the number is.
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.
Jam
Age 14 to 16
Challenge Level
To avoid losing think of another very well known game where the patterns of play are similar.
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
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?
Bow Tie
Age 11 to 14
Challenge Level
Show how this pentagonal tile can be used to tile the plane and describe the transformations which map this pentagon to its images in the tiling.
More Number Pyramids
Age 11 to 14
Challenge Level
When number pyramids have a sequence on the bottom layer, some interesting patterns emerge...
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?
Interactive Number Patterns
Age 14 to 16
Challenge Level
How good are you at finding the formula for a number pattern ?
Countdown Fractions
Age 11 to 16
Challenge Level
Here is a chance to play a fractions version of the classic Countdown Game.
Countdown
Age 7 to 14
Challenge Level
Here is a chance to play a version of the classic Countdown Game.
Mixed up Mixture
Age 14 to 16
Challenge Level
Can you fill in the mixed up numbers in this dilution calculation?
Investigating the Dilution Series
Age 14 to 16
Challenge Level
Which dilutions can you make using only 10ml pipettes?
A Question of Scale
Age 14 to 16
Challenge Level
Use your skill and knowledge to place various scientific lengths in order of size. Can you judge the length of objects with sizes ranging from 1 Angstrom to 1 million km with no wrong attempts?
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.
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?
Fractions and Percentages Card Game
Age 11 to 16
Challenge Level
Can you find the pairs that represent the same amount of money?
Got a Strategy for Last Biscuit?
Age 11 to 16
Challenge Level
Can you beat the computer in the challenging strategy game?
Spot the Card
Age 14 to 16
Challenge Level
It is possible to identify a particular card out of a pack of 15 with the use of some mathematical reasoning. What is this reasoning and can it be applied to other numbers of cards?
Poly Plug Rectangles
Age 5 to 14
Challenge Level
The computer has made a rectangle and will tell you the number of spots it uses in total. Can you find out where the rectangle is?
NRICH is part of the family of activities in the Millennium Mathematics Project.