Being curious

  • What's happening?
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    What's happening?

    Age
    5 to 7
    Challenge level
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    Shapes are added to other shapes. Can you see what is happening? What is the rule?

  • What's in a name?
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    What's in a name?

    Age
    5 to 7
    Challenge level
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    Here's a very elementary code that requires young children to read a table, and look for similarities and differences.

  • Going for Gold
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    Going for gold

    Age
    7 to 11
    Challenge level
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    Looking at the Olympic Medal table, can you see how the data is organised? Could the results be presented differently to give another nation the top place?

  • Olympic rings
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    Olympic rings

    Age
    5 to 7
    Challenge level
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    Can you design your own version of the Olympic rings, using interlocking squares instead of circles?

  • Method in multiplying madness?
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    Method in multiplying madness?

    Age
    7 to 14
    Challenge level
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    Watch our videos of multiplication methods that you may not have met before. Can you make sense of them?

  • How Tall?
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    How tall?

    Age
    5 to 11
    Challenge level
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    A group of children are discussing the height of a tall tree. How would you go about finding out its height?

  • Which spinners?
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    Which spinners?

    Age
    14 to 18
    Challenge level
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    Can you work out which spinners were used to generate the frequency charts?

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    The Domesday Project

    Age
    7 to 11
    Challenge level
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    Take a look at these data collected by children in 1986 as part of the Domesday Project. What do they tell you? What do you think about the way they are presented?

  • If the World Were a Village
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    If the world were a village

    Age
    5 to 11
    Challenge level
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    This activity is based on data in the book 'If the World Were a Village'. How will you represent your chosen data for maximum effect?

  • Summing Consecutive Numbers
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    Summing consecutive numbers

    Age
    11 to 14
    Challenge level
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    15 = 7 + 8 and 10 = 1 + 2 + 3 + 4. Can you say which numbers can be expressed as the sum of two or more consecutive integers?