Being collaborative

  • Ten Hidden Squares
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    Ten hidden squares

    Age
    7 to 14
    Challenge level
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    These points all mark the vertices (corners) of ten hidden squares. Can you find the 10 hidden squares?

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    Inky cube

    Age
    7 to 14
    Challenge level
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    This cube has ink on each face which leaves marks on paper as it is rolled. Can you work out what is on each face and the route it has taken?

  • Factors and Multiples Game
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    Factors and multiples game

    Age
    7 to 16
    Challenge level
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    A game in which players take it in turns to choose a number. Can you block your opponent?

  • Which solid?
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    Which solid?

    Age
    7 to 16
    Challenge level
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    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.
  • Two and Two
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    Two and two

    Age
    7 to 16
    Challenge level
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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
    Challenge level
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    A game for 2 or more people, based on the traditional card game Rummy.

  • Have you got it?
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    Have you got it?

    Age
    11 to 14
    Challenge level
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    Can you explain the strategy for winning this game with any target?

  • American Billions
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    American billions

    Age
    11 to 14
    Challenge level
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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...

  • Cinema Problem
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    Cinema problem

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