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  • Fraction Lengths
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    Fraction Lengths

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    7 to 11
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    Can you find combinations of strips of paper which equal the length of the black strip? If the length of the black is 1, how could you write the sum of the strips?

  • Price Match
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    Price Match

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    7 to 11
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    Can you find pairs of differently sized windows that cost the same?

  • Pouring Problem
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    Pouring Problem

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    7 to 11
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    What do you think is going to happen in this video clip? Are you surprised?

  • Roll these Dice
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    Roll These Dice

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    7 to 11
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    Roll two red dice and a green dice. Add the two numbers on the red dice and take away the number on the green. What are all the different possible answers?

  • Making Boxes
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    Making Boxes

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    7 to 11
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    Cut differently-sized square corners from a square piece of paper to make boxes without lids. Do they all have the same volume?

  • Making Cuboids
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    Making Cuboids

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    7 to 11
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    Let's say you can only use two different lengths - 2 units and 4 units. Using just these 2 lengths as the edges how many different cuboids can you make?

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    Maze 100

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    7 to 11
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    Can you go through this maze so that the numbers you pass add to exactly 100?

  • Domino Square
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    Domino Square

    Age
    7 to 11
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    Use the 'double-3 down' dominoes to make a square so that each side has eight dots.

  • Egyptian Rope
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    Egyptian Rope

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    7 to 11
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    The ancient Egyptians were said to make right-angled triangles using a rope with twelve equal sections divided by knots. What other triangles could you make if you had a rope like this?

  • Forgot the Numbers
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    Forgot the Numbers

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    7 to 11
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    On my calculator I divided one whole number by another whole number and got the answer 3.125. If the numbers are both under 50, what are they?