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Cherry Buns
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Cherry buns

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Sam's grandmother has an old recipe for cherry buns. She has enough mixture to put 45 grams in each of 12 paper cake cases. What was the weight of one egg?
It was 2010!
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It was 2010!

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If the answer's 2010, what could the question be?
Walking the squares
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Walking the squares

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Find a route from the outside to the inside of this square, stepping on as many tiles as possible.
Open Boxes
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Open boxes

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Can you work out how many cubes were used to make this open box? What size of open box could you make if you had 112 cubes?
Light weights
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Light weights

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See how the weight of weights varies across the globe.
More Dicey Decisions
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More dicey decisions

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The twelve edge totals of a standard six-sided die are distributed symmetrically. Will the same symmetry emerge with a dodecahedral die?
A little light thinking
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A little light thinking

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Here is a machine with four coloured lights. Can you make two lights switch on at once? Three lights? All four lights?

Going For Games
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Going for games

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In this article for teachers, Liz Woodham describes the criteria she uses to choose mathematical games for the classroom and shares some examples from NRICH.
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