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Growing Rectangles
11 to 14
What happens to the area and volume of 2D and 3D shapes when you enlarge them?
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Engaging Mathematics for All Learners
A project, funded by the QCA, in which NRICH collaborated with schools wishing to integrate NRICH tasks into their everyday classroom practice. The case studies of our work with the schools informed the QCA publication 'Mathematics for all learners'.
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More Total Totality
11 to 14
Is it possible to arrange the numbers 1-6 on the nodes of this diagram, so that all the sums between numbers on adjacent nodes are different?
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Power Match
16 to 18
Can you locate these values on this interactive logarithmic scale?
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Rod Ratios
7 to 11
Use the Cuisenaire rods environment to investigate ratio. Can you find pairs of rods in the ratio 3:2?
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Folded Number Line
7 to 11
When I fold a 0-20 number line, I end up with 'stacks' of numbers on top of each other. These challenges involve varying the length of the number line and investigating the 'stack totals'.
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Four Coloured Lights
11 to 14
Imagine a machine with four coloured lights which respond to different rules. Can you find the smallest possible number which will make all four colours light up?
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Moving Squares
14 to 16
How can you represent the curvature of a cylinder on a flat piece of paper?