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Generalising. Prime numbers. Creating and manipulating expressions and formulae. Working systematically. Factors and multiples. Divisibility. Place value. Multiplication & division. Mathematical reasoning & proof. Indices.There are 64 results
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Really Mr. Bond
Age 14 to 16 Challenge Level:
115^2 = (110 x 120) + 25, that is 13225 895^2 = (890 x 900) + 25, that is 801025 Can you explain what is happening and generalise?
Three Times Seven
Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:
A three digit number abc is always divisible by 7 when 2a+3b+c is divisible by 7. Why?
Multiplication Magic
Age 14 to 16 Challenge Level:
Given any 3 digit number you can use the given digits and name another number which is divisible by 37 (e.g. given 628 you say 628371 is divisible by 37 because you know that 6+3 = 2+7 = 8+1 = 9). . . .
Just Repeat
Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:
Think of any three-digit number. Repeat the digits. The 6-digit number that you end up with is divisible by 91. Is this a coincidence?
Big Powers
Age 11 to 16 Challenge Level:
Three people chose this as a favourite problem. It is the sort of problem that needs thinking time - but once the connection is made it gives access to many similar ideas.
Exploring Simple Mappings
Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:
Explore the relationship between simple linear functions and their graphs.
Double Digit
Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:
Choose two digits and arrange them to make two double-digit numbers. Now add your double-digit numbers. Now add your single digit numbers. Divide your double-digit answer by your single-digit answer. . . .
Repeaters
Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:
Choose any 3 digits and make a 6 digit number by repeating the 3 digits in the same order (e.g. 594594). Explain why whatever digits you choose the number will always be divisible by 7, 11 and 13.
Legs Eleven
Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:
Take any four digit number. Move the first digit to the end and move the rest along. Now add your two numbers. Did you get a multiple of 11?
Please Explain
Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:
Visitors to Earth from the distant planet of Zub-Zorna were amazed when they found out that when the digits in this multiplication were reversed, the answer was the same! Find a way to explain. . . .
What a Joke
Age 14 to 16 Challenge Level:
Each letter represents a different positive digit AHHAAH / JOKE = HA What are the values of each of the letters?
Phew I'm Factored
Age 14 to 16 Challenge Level:
Explore the factors of the numbers which are written as 10101 in different number bases. Prove that the numbers 10201, 11011 and 10101 are composite in any base.
Add to 200
Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:
By selecting digits for an addition grid, what targets can you make?
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?
Football Sum
Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:
Find the values of the nine letters in the sum: FOOT + BALL = GAME
What an Odd Fact(or)
Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:
Can you show that 1^99 + 2^99 + 3^99 + 4^99 + 5^99 is divisible by 5?
Cayley
Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:
The letters in the following addition sum represent the digits 1 ... 9. If A=3 and D=2, what number is represented by "CAYLEY"?
Novemberish
Age 14 to 16 Challenge Level:
a) A four digit number (in base 10) aabb is a perfect square. Discuss ways of systematically finding this number. (b) Prove that 11^{10}-1 is divisible by 100.
Arrange the Digits
Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:
Can you arrange the digits 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9 into three 3-digit numbers such that their total is close to 1500?
Read This Page
Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:
Replace the letters with numbers to make the addition work out correctly. R E A D + T H I S = P A G E
X Marks the Spot
Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:
When the number x 1 x x x is multiplied by 417 this gives the answer 9 x x x 0 5 7. Find the missing digits, each of which is represented by an "x" .
Number Rules - OK
Age 14 to 16 Challenge Level:
Can you convince me of each of the following: If a square number is multiplied by a square number the product is ALWAYS a square number...
Enriching Experience
Age 14 to 16 Challenge Level:
Find the five distinct digits N, R, I, C and H in the following nomogram
DOTS Division
Age 14 to 16 Challenge Level:
Take any pair of two digit numbers x=ab and y=cd where, without loss of generality, ab > cd . Form two 4 digit numbers r=abcd and s=cdab and calculate: {r^2 - s^2} /{x^2 - y^2}.
Latin Numbers
Age 14 to 16 Challenge Level:
Can you create a Latin Square from multiples of a six digit number?
Subtraction Surprise
Age 7 to 14 Challenge Level:
Try out some calculations. Are you surprised by the results?
Lesser Digits
Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:
How many positive integers less than or equal to 4000 can be written down without using the digits 7, 8 or 9?
Forwards Add Backwards
Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:
What happens when you add a three digit number to its reverse?
Mini-max
Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:
Consider all two digit numbers (10, 11, . . . ,99). In writing down all these numbers, which digits occur least often, and which occur most often ? What about three digit numbers, four digit numbers. . . .
Digit Sum
Age 14 to 16 Short Challenge Level:
What is the sum of all the digits in all the integers from one to one million?
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.
Two and Two
Age 11 to 16 Challenge Level:
How many solutions can you find to this sum? Each of the different letters stands for a different number.
Tis Unique
Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:
This addition sum uses all ten digits 0, 1, 2...9 exactly once. Find the sum and show that the one you give is the only possibility.
Method in Multiplying Madness?
Age 7 to 14 Challenge Level:
Watch our videos of multiplication methods that you may not have met before. Can you make sense of them?
The Number Jumbler
Age 7 to 14 Challenge Level:
The Number Jumbler can always work out your chosen symbol. Can you work out how?
Adding with the Abacus
Age 5 to 16
Nowadays the calculator is very familiar to many of us. What did people do to save time working out more difficult problems before the calculator existed?
How Many Miles to Go?
Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:
How many more miles must the car travel before the numbers on the milometer and the trip meter contain the same digits in the same order?
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...
Always a Multiple?
Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:
Think of a two digit number, reverse the digits, and add the numbers together. Something special happens...
Reversals
Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:
Where should you start, if you want to finish back where you started?
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.
Composite Notions
Age 14 to 16 Challenge Level:
A composite number is one that is neither prime nor 1. Show that 10201 is composite in any base.
Think of Two Numbers
Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:
Think of two whole numbers under 10, and follow the steps. I can work out both your numbers very quickly. How?
Quick Times
Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:
32 x 38 = 30 x 40 + 2 x 8; 34 x 36 = 30 x 40 + 4 x 6; 56 x 54 = 50 x 60 + 6 x 4; 73 x 77 = 70 x 80 + 3 x 7 Verify and generalise if possible.
2-digit Square
Age 14 to 16 Challenge Level:
A 2-Digit number is squared. When this 2-digit number is reversed and squared, the difference between the squares is also a square. What is the 2-digit number?
Alphabet Soup
Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:
This challenge is to make up YOUR OWN alphanumeric. Each letter represents a digit and where the same letter appears more than once it must represent the same digit each time.
Plus Minus
Age 14 to 16 Challenge Level:
Can you explain the surprising results Jo found when she calculated the difference between square numbers?
Seven Up
Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:
The number 27 is special because it is three times the sum of its digits 27 = 3 (2 + 7). Find some two digit numbers that are SEVEN times the sum of their digits (seven-up numbers)?
Chocolate Maths
Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:
Pick the number of times a week that you eat chocolate. This number must be more than one but less than ten. Multiply this number by 2. Add 5 (for Sunday). Multiply by 50... Can you explain why it. . . .
NRICH is part of the family of activities in the Millennium Mathematics Project.