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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. . . .
Go Forth and Generalise
Age 11 to 14
Spotting patterns can be an important first step - explaining why it is appropriate to generalise is the next step, and often the most interesting and important.
Mindreader
Age 11 to 14
Challenge Level
A little bit of algebra explains this 'magic'. Ask a friend to pick 3 consecutive numbers and to tell you a multiple of 3. Then ask them to add the four numbers and multiply by 67, and to tell you. . . .
Tower of Hanoi
Age 11 to 14
Challenge Level
The Tower of Hanoi is an ancient mathematical challenge. Working on the building blocks may help you to explain the patterns you notice.
Multiplication Square
Age 14 to 16
Challenge Level
Pick a square within a multiplication square and add the numbers on each diagonal. What do you notice?
Tourism
Age 11 to 14
Challenge Level
If you can copy a network without lifting your pen off the paper and without drawing any line twice, then it is traversable. Decide which of these diagrams are traversable.
More Number Pyramids
Age 11 to 14
Challenge Level
When number pyramids have a sequence on the bottom layer, some interesting patterns emerge...
Seven Squares - Group-worthy Task
Age 11 to 14
Challenge Level
Choose a couple of the sequences. Try to picture how to make the next, and the next, and the next... Can you describe your reasoning?
One O Five
Age 11 to 14
Challenge Level
You can work out the number someone else is thinking of as follows. Ask a friend to think of any natural number less than 100. Then ask them to tell you the remainders when this number is divided by. . . .
Natural Sum
Age 14 to 16
Challenge Level
The picture illustrates the sum 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 = (4 x 5)/2. Prove the general formula for the sum of the first n natural numbers and the formula for the sum of the cubes of the first n natural. . . .
Logic
Age 7 to 14
What does logic mean to us and is that different to mathematical logic? We will explore these questions in this article.
Picture Story
Age 14 to 16
Challenge Level
Can you see how this picture illustrates the formula for the sum of the first six cube numbers?
Ratty
Age 11 to 14
Challenge Level
If you know the sizes of the angles marked with coloured dots in this diagram which angles can you find by calculation?
Dicing with Numbers
Age 11 to 14
Challenge Level
In how many ways can you arrange three dice side by side on a surface so that the sum of the numbers on each of the four faces (top, bottom, front and back) is equal?
Mouhefanggai
Age 14 to 16
Imagine two identical cylindrical pipes meeting at right angles and think about the shape of the space which belongs to both pipes. Early Chinese mathematicians call this shape the mouhefanggai.
1 Step 2 Step
Age 11 to 14
Challenge Level
Liam's house has a staircase with 12 steps. He can go down the steps one at a time or two at time. In how many different ways can Liam go down the 12 steps?
Concrete Wheel
Age 11 to 14
Challenge Level
A huge wheel is rolling past your window. What do you see?
Is it Magic or Is it Maths?
Age 11 to 14
Challenge Level
Here are three 'tricks' to amaze your friends. But the really clever trick is explaining to them why these 'tricks' are maths not magic. Like all good magicians, you should practice by trying. . . .
Mediant Madness
Age 14 to 16
Challenge Level
Kyle and his teacher disagree about his test score - who is right?
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. . . .
Thirty Nine, Seventy Five
Age 11 to 14
Challenge Level
We have exactly 100 coins. There are five different values of coins. We have decided to buy a piece of computer software for 39.75. We have the correct money, not a penny more, not a penny less! Can. . . .
Janine's Conjecture
Age 14 to 16
Challenge Level
Janine noticed, while studying some cube numbers, that if you take three consecutive whole numbers and multiply them together and then add the middle number of the three, you get the middle number. . . .
Matter of Scale
Age 14 to 16
Challenge Level
Prove Pythagoras' Theorem using enlargements and scale factors.
Unit Fractions
Age 11 to 14
Challenge Level
Consider the equation 1/a + 1/b + 1/c = 1 where a, b and c are natural numbers and 0 < a < b < c. Prove that there is only one set of values which satisfy this equation.
Volume of a Pyramid and a Cone
Age 11 to 14
These formulae are often quoted, but rarely proved. In this article, we derive the formulae for the volumes of a square-based pyramid and a cone, using relatively simple mathematical concepts.
Convex Polygons
Age 11 to 14
Challenge Level
Show that among the interior angles of a convex polygon there cannot be more than three acute angles.
Cross-country Race
Age 14 to 16
Challenge Level
Eight children enter the autumn cross-country race at school. How many possible ways could they come in at first, second and third places?
Rhombus in Rectangle
Age 14 to 16
Challenge Level
Take any rectangle ABCD such that AB > BC. The point P is on AB and Q is on CD. Show that there is exactly one position of P and Q such that APCQ is a rhombus.
Con Tricks
Age 11 to 14
Here are some examples of 'cons', and see if you can figure out where the trick is.
Long Short
Age 14 to 16
Challenge Level
What can you say about the lengths of the sides of a quadrilateral whose vertices are on a unit circle?
Gift of Gems
Age 14 to 16
Challenge Level
Four jewellers share their stock. Can you work out the relative values of their gems?
Towering Trapeziums
Age 14 to 16
Challenge Level
Can you find the areas of the trapezia in this sequence?
Triangular Intersection
Age 14 to 16 Short
Challenge Level
What is the largest number of intersection points that a triangle and a quadrilateral can have?
Russian Cubes
Age 14 to 16
Challenge Level
I want some cubes painted with three blue faces and three red faces. How many different cubes can be painted like that?
Diophantine N-tuples
Age 14 to 16
Challenge Level
Can you explain why a sequence of operations always gives you perfect squares?
Converse
Age 14 to 16
Challenge Level
Clearly if a, b and c are the lengths of the sides of an equilateral triangle then a^2 + b^2 + c^2 = ab + bc + ca. Is the converse true?
Kite in a Square
Age 14 to 16
Challenge Level
Can you make sense of the three methods to work out the area of the kite in the square?
No Right Angle Here
Age 14 to 16
Challenge Level
Prove that the internal angle bisectors of a triangle will never be perpendicular to each other.
Always the Same
Age 11 to 14
Challenge Level
Arrange the numbers 1 to 16 into a 4 by 4 array. Choose a number. Cross out the numbers on the same row and column. Repeat this process. Add up you four numbers. Why do they always add up to 34?
Same Length
Age 11 to 16
Challenge Level
Construct two equilateral triangles on a straight line. There are two lengths that look the same - can you prove it?
Pythagorean Triples I
Age 11 to 16
The first of two articles on Pythagorean Triples which asks how many right angled triangles can you find with the lengths of each side exactly a whole number measurement. Try it!
Find the Fake
Age 14 to 16
Challenge Level
There are 12 identical looking coins, one of which is a fake. The counterfeit coin is of a different weight to the rest. What is the minimum number of weighings needed to locate the fake coin?
Tri-colour
Age 11 to 14
Challenge Level
Six points are arranged in space so that no three are collinear. How many line segments can be formed by joining the points in pairs?
Pythagorean Triples II
Age 11 to 16
This is the second article on right-angled triangles whose edge lengths are whole numbers.
Chameleons
Age 11 to 14
Challenge Level
Whenever two chameleons of different colours meet they change colour to the third colour. Describe the shortest sequence of meetings in which all the chameleons change to green if you start with 12. . . .
Encircling
Age 14 to 16
Challenge Level
An equilateral triangle is sitting on top of a square. What is the radius of the circle that circumscribes this shape?
Square Mean
Age 14 to 16
Challenge Level
Is the mean of the squares of two numbers greater than, or less than, the square of their means?
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