Being collaborative

  • What shape?
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    What Shape?

    Age
    7 to 14
    Challenge level
    1 out of 3

    This task develops spatial reasoning skills. By framing and asking questions a member of the team has to find out what mathematical object they have chosen.

  • Less is More
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    Less Is More

    Age
    7 to 14
    Challenge level
    1 out of 3

    Use your knowledge of place value to try to win this game. How will you maximise your score?

  • More Less is More
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    More Less Is More

    Age
    7 to 14
    Challenge level
    1 out of 3

    In each of these games, you will need a little bit of luck and your knowledge of place value to develop a winning strategy.

  • Number Lines in Disguise
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    Number Lines in Disguise

    Age
    7 to 14
    Challenge level
    2 out of 3

    Some of the numbers have fallen off Becky's number line. Can you figure out what they were?

  • Chocolate
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    Chocolate

    Age
    7 to 14
    Challenge level
    2 out of 3

    There are three tables in a room with blocks of chocolate on each. Where would be the best place for each child in the class to sit if they came in one at a time?

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    Factor Lines

    Age
    7 to 14
    Challenge level
    2 out of 3

    Arrange the four number cards on the grid, according to the rules, to make a diagonal, vertical or horizontal line.

  • Sealed Solution
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    Sealed Solution

    Age
    7 to 14
    Challenge level
    2 out of 3

    Ten cards are put into five envelopes so that there are two cards in each envelope. The sum of the numbers inside it is written on each envelope. What numbers could be inside the envelopes?

  • A chopped carrot beside a whole carrot. The carrot top sits away from the chopped carrot.
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    Remainders

    Age
    7 to 14
    Challenge level
    2 out of 3

    I'm thinking of a number. My number is both a multiple of 5 and a multiple of 6. What could my number be?

  • Eight hidden squares
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    Eight Hidden Squares

    Age
    7 to 14
    Challenge level
    2 out of 3

    On the graph there are 28 marked points. These points all mark the vertices (corners) of eight hidden squares. Can you find the eight hidden squares?

  • Making Rectangles
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    Making Rectangles

    Age
    7 to 14
    Challenge level
    2 out of 3

    A task which depends on members of the group noticing the needs of others and responding.