Street Party
The challenge here is to find as many routes as you can for a fence to go so that this town is divided up into two halves, each with 8 blocks.
The challenge here is to find as many routes as you can for a fence to go so that this town is divided up into two halves, each with 8 blocks.
Can you decide whether two lines are perpendicular or not? Can you do this without drawing them?
On the grid provided, we can draw lines with different gradients. How many different gradients can you find? Can you arrange them in order of steepness?
Imagine flipping a coin a number of times. Can you work out the probability you will get a head on at least one of the flips?
This challenge combines addition, multiplication, perseverance and even proof.
The Man is much smaller than us. Can you use the picture of him next to a mug to estimate his height and how much tea he drinks?
How many different quadrilaterals can be made by joining the dots on the 8-point circle?
Choose four consecutive whole numbers. Multiply the first and last numbers together. Multiply the middle pair together. What do you notice?
This article -useful for teachers and learners - gives a short account of the history of negative numbers.