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Excel interactive resource: multiples chain
Use an interactive Excel spreadsheet to investigate factors and
multiples.
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Making maths: rolypoly
Paint a stripe on a cardboard roll. Can you predict what will
happen when it is rolled across a sheet of paper?
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Being curious - Secondary students
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Light blue - dark blue
7 to 11
Investigate the successive areas of light blue in these diagrams.
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Weigh to go
This article for teachers recounts the history of measurement,
encouraging it to be used as a spring board for cross-curricular
activity.
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Sweets in a box
7 to 11
How many different shaped boxes can you design for 36 sweets in one layer? Can you arrange the sweets so that no sweets of the same colour are next to each other in any direction?
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Seven flipped
7 to 11
Investigate the smallest number of moves it takes to turn these mats upside-down if you can only turn exactly three at a time.
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Vector walk
14 to 18
Starting with two basic vector steps, which destinations can you reach on a vector walk?