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Going for Gold

7 to 11

Looking at the Olympic Medal table, can you see how the data is organised? Could the results be presented differently to give another nation the top place?

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Enriching Patterns

5 to 16

Following on from a workshop at an MA Easter conference, Jennifer and Jenni talked about the way in which the website is made more accessible to teachers who want to plan threads of activity. Here’s a pattern- based theme.

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Weekly Challenges Are Here!

11 to 18

Weekly challenges are here for NRICH! To celebrate this event, we've collected a set of 20 essential problems for you to try.

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Dominant Intelligences

5 to 16

The second in a series, this article looks at the possible opportunities for children who operate from different intelligences to be involved in "typical" maths problems.

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Building Up to Coding

5 to 11

This article describes the underlying mathematical ideas and skills involved in the important mathematical application of coding.

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Markov Matrices

14 to 18

Use matrices to find out how much cake I eat.

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Sissa's Reward

11 to 14

Sissa cleverly asked the King for a reward that sounded quite modest but turned out to be rather large...

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Poly Plug Pattern

5 to 7

Create a pattern on the small grid. How could you extend your pattern on the larger grid?

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Missing Middles

5 to 7

Can you work out the domino pieces which would go in the middle in each case to complete the pattern of these eight sets of three dominoes?

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Magic Squares

14 to 18

An account of some magic squares and their properties and and how to construct them for yourself.