Being collaborative

There are 300 NRICH Mathematical resources connected to Being collaborative
Brush Loads
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Brush Loads

Age
7 to 11
Challenge level
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How can you arrange the 5 cubes so that you need the smallest number of Brush Loads of paint to cover them? Try with other numbers of cubes as well.
Product Sudoku
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Product Sudoku

Age
11 to 16
Challenge level
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The clues for this Sudoku are the product of the numbers in adjacent squares.
Areas of parallelograms
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Areas of parallelograms

Age
14 to 16
Challenge level
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Can you find the area of a parallelogram defined by two vectors?
Cover the Camel
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Cover the Camel

Age
5 to 7
Challenge level
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Can you cover the camel with these pieces?
How far does it move?
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How far does it move?

Age
11 to 14
Challenge level
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Experiment with the interactivity of "rolling" regular polygons, and explore how the different positions of the red dot affects the distance it travels at each stage.
Two Clocks
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Two Clocks

Age
7 to 11
Challenge level
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These clocks have only one hand, but can you work out what time they are showing from the information?
The Better Choice
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The Better Choice

Age
14 to 16
Challenge level
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Here are two games you can play. Which offers the better chance of winning?
Same Length Trains
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Same Length Trains

Age
5 to 7
Challenge level
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How many trains can you make which are the same length as Matt's and Katie's, using rods that are identical?
Property chart
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Property chart

Age
11 to 14
Challenge level
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A game in which players take it in turns to try to draw quadrilaterals (or triangles) with particular properties. Is it possible to fill the game grid?
Shapely pairs
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Shapely pairs

Age
11 to 14
Challenge level
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A game in which players take it in turns to turn up two cards. If they can draw a triangle which satisfies both properties they win the pair of cards. And a few challenging questions to follow...