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Cuisenaire Spirals
7 to 11
Can you make arrange Cuisenaire rods so that they make a 'spiral' with right angles at the corners?
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Polydron
7 to 11
This activity investigates how you might make squares and pentominoes from Polydron.
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Internal - External
14 to 16
Weekly Problem 12 - 2016
The diagram shows a square PQRS and two equilateral triangles RSU and PST. PQ has length 1. What is the length of TU?
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The Legacy
14 to 16
Your school has been left a million pounds in the will of an ex-pupil. What model of investment and spending would you use in order to ensure the best return on the money?
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Using Non-Standard Problems to Challenge Pre-Conceptions
This paper explores the value of using problems as a way of
challenging children’s mathematical pre-conceptions and
problems' potential for extending their knowledge and
understanding. It considers some non-standard problems taken from
the NRICH website and examines them in the light of children's
solutions and what children have said, or implied, about their
thinking.
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Sticks and Triangles
7 to 11
Using different numbers of sticks, how many different triangles are
you able to make? Can you make any rules about the numbers of
sticks that make the most triangles?
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Curve Spotting
5 to 7
Can you spot circles, spirals and other types of curves in these photos?
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Three Way Mix Up
5 to 11
Jack has nine tiles. He put them together to make a square so that two tiles of the same colour were not beside each other. Can you find another way to do it?
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Ladybird Box
5 to 11
Place six toy ladybirds into the box so that there are two ladybirds in every column and every row.