Ducking and Dividing
Your vessel, the Starship Diophantus, has become damaged in deep space. Can you use your knowledge of times tables and some lightning reflexes to survive?
Your vessel, the Starship Diophantus, has become damaged in deep space. Can you use your knowledge of times tables and some lightning reflexes to survive?
'What Shape?' activity for adult and child. Can you ask good questions so you can work out which shape your partner has chosen?
Four strategy dice games to consolidate pupils' understanding of rounding.
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.
Can you fit the tangram pieces into the outline of the playing piece?
In this game, children roll the dice and count how many steps to move the spider up or down the drainpipe.
A practical experiment which will introduce students to tree diagrams, and help them to understand that outcomes may not be equally likely.
This task, written for the National Young Mathematicians' Award 2016, invites you to explore the different combinations of scores that you might get on these dart boards.