Being collaborative

  • Two and Two
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    Two and Two

    Age
    7 to 16
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    How many solutions can you find to this sum? Each of the different letters stands for a different number.

  • Quadrilaterals game
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    Quadrilaterals Game

    Age
    11 to 14
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    A game for 2 or more people, based on the traditional card game Rummy.

  • An American flag waving in the wind.
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    American Billions

    Age
    11 to 14
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    Play the divisibility game to create numbers in which the first two digits make a number divisible by 2, the first three digits make a number divisible by 3...

  • Some old-fashioned cinema tickets.
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    Cinema Problem

    Age
    11 to 14
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    A cinema has 100 seats. How can ticket sales make £100 for these different combinations of ticket prices?

  • Shady Symmetry
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    Shady Symmetry

    Age
    11 to 14
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    How many different symmetrical shapes can you make by shading triangles or squares?

  • Isosceles Triangles
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    Isosceles Triangles

    Age
    11 to 14
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    Draw some isosceles triangles with an area of $9cm^2$ and a vertex at (20,20). If all the vertices must have whole number coordinates, how many is it possible to draw?

  • How far does it move?
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    How Far Does It Move?

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

  • Fractions jigsaw
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    Fractions Jigsaw

    Age
    11 to 14
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    A jigsaw where pieces only go together if the fractions are equivalent.

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    Reaction Timer

    Age
    11 to 14
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    This problem offers you two ways to test reactions - use them to investigate your ideas about speeds of reaction.

  • m, m and m
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    M, M and M

    Age
    11 to 14
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    If you are given the mean, median and mode of five positive whole numbers, can you find the numbers?