Being resilient

There are 51 NRICH Mathematical resources connected to Being resilient
Factors and Multiples Puzzle
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Factors and Multiples Puzzle

Age
11 to 14
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Using your knowledge of the properties of numbers, can you fill all the squares on the board?
Substitution Cipher
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Substitution Cipher

Age
11 to 14
Challenge level
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Find the frequency distribution for ordinary English, and use it to help you crack the code.
Product Sudoku
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Product Sudoku

Age
11 to 16
Challenge level
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The clues for this Sudoku are the product of the numbers in adjacent squares.
Squares in rectangles
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Squares in rectangles

Age
11 to 14
Challenge level
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A 2 by 3 rectangle contains 8 squares and a 3 by 4 rectangle contains 20 squares. What size rectangle(s) contain(s) exactly 100 squares? Can you find them all?
Odds and Evens
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Odds and Evens

Age
11 to 14
Challenge level
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Are these games fair? How can you tell?
Nine-Pin Triangles
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Nine-Pin Triangles

Age
7 to 11
Challenge level
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How many different triangles can you make on a circular pegboard that has nine pegs?
Isosceles Triangles
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Isosceles Triangles

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

Age
5 to 7
Challenge level
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Use these head, body and leg pieces to make Robot Monsters which are different heights.
Cuboids
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Cuboids

Age
11 to 14
Challenge level
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Can you find a cuboid that has a surface area of exactly 100 square units. Is there more than one? Can you find them all?
Make 37
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Make 37

Age
7 to 11
Challenge level
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Four bags contain a large number of 1s, 3s, 5s and 7s. Can you pick any ten numbers from the bags so that their total is 37?