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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?
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)?
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.
Plus Minus
Age 14 to 16 Challenge Level:
Can you explain the surprising results Jo found when she calculated the difference between square numbers?
Subtraction Surprise
Age 7 to 14 Challenge Level:
Try out some calculations. Are you surprised by the results?
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...
More Mathematical Mysteries
Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:
Write down a three-digit number Change the order of the digits to get a different number Find the difference between the two three digit numbers Follow the rest of the instructions then try. . . .
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?
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. . . .
Basically
Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:
The number 3723(in base 10) is written as 123 in another base. What is that base?
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.
Never Prime
Age 14 to 16 Challenge Level:
If a two digit number has its digits reversed and the smaller of the two numbers is subtracted from the larger, prove the difference can never be prime.
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?
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?
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.
Power Mad!
Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:
Powers of numbers behave in surprising ways. Take a look at some of these and try to explain why they are true.
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}.
Reversals
Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:
Where should you start, if you want to finish back where you started?
The Number Jumbler
Age 7 to 14 Challenge Level:
The Number Jumbler can always work out your chosen symbol. Can you work out how?
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
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"?
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?
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.
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?
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?
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?
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.
Football Sum
Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:
Find the values of the nine letters in the sum: FOOT + BALL = GAME
Not a Polite Question
Age 11 to 14 Short Challenge Level:
When asked how old she was, the teacher replied: My age in years is not prime but odd and when reversed and added to my age you have a perfect square...
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?
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). . . .
Latin Numbers
Age 14 to 16 Challenge Level:
Can you create a Latin Square from multiples of a six digit number?
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?
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.
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. . . .
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?
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.
Pupils' Recording or Pupils Recording
Age 5 to 14
This article, written for teachers, looks at the different kinds of recordings encountered in Primary Mathematics lessons and the importance of not jumping to conclusions!
Six Times Five
Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:
How many six digit numbers are there which DO NOT contain a 5?
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.
Back to the Planet of Vuvv
Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:
There are two forms of counting on Vuvv - Zios count in base 3 and Zepts count in base 7. One day four of these creatures, two Zios and two Zepts, sat on the summit of a hill to count the legs of. . . .
Enriching Experience
Age 14 to 16 Challenge Level:
Find the five distinct digits N, R, I, C and H in the following nomogram
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" .
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?
Reach 100
Age 7 to 14 Challenge Level:
Choose four different digits from 1-9 and put one in each box so that the resulting four two-digit numbers add to a total of 100.
NRICH is part of the family of activities in the Millennium Mathematics Project.