True or False?
Without doing lots of calculations, can you decide which of these number sentences are true? How do you know?
Without doing lots of calculations, can you decide which of these number sentences are true? How do you know?
Follow the mathematical journey of a sixth-former as she spent four weeks working on stemNRICH problems.
In this follow-up to the problem Odds and Evens, we invite you to analyse a probability situation in order to find the general solution for a fair game.
In this investigation we are going to count the number of 1s, 2s, 3s etc in numbers. Can you predict what will happen?
On a farm there were some hens and sheep. Altogether there were 8 heads and 22 feet. How many hens were there?
How many different triangles can you draw which each have one dot in the middle?
How many possible symmetrical necklaces can you find? How do you know you've found them all?
Does this 'trick' for calculating multiples of 11 always work? Why or why not?
What is the smallest number of answers you need to reveal in order to work out the missing headers?