Being resilient

It is believed that weaker snooker players have a better chance of winning matches over eleven frames (i.e. first to win 6 frames) than they do over fifteen frames. Is this true?

Do you have enough information to work out the area of the shaded quadrilateral?

There were cola bottles for 2p, mini eggs for 3p, marshmallow twists for 5p and lollipops for 7p in the sweet shop. What could each of the children buy with their money?

In this activity, shapes can be arranged by changing either the colour or the shape each time. Can you find a way to do it?

Make one big triangle so the numbers that touch on the small triangles add to 10.

Lolla bought a balloon at the circus. She gave the clown six coins to pay for it. What could Lolla have paid for the balloon?

In this town, houses are built with one room for each person. There are some families of seven people living in the town. In how many different ways can they build their houses?

Use these four dominoes to make a square that has the same number of dots on each side.

Using the cards 2, 4, 6, 8, +, - and =, what number statements can you make?

Start with three pairs of socks. Now mix them up so that no mismatched pair is the same as another mismatched pair. Is there more than one way to do it?