Being resilient

  • Data matching
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    Data matching

    Age
    14 to 18
    Challenge level
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    Use your skill and judgement to match the sets of random data.
  • Inside Triangles
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    Inside triangles

    Age
    5 to 7
    Challenge level
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    How many different triangles can you draw which each have one dot in the middle?

  • Factors and Multiples Puzzle
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    Factors and multiples puzzle

    Age
    11 to 14
    Challenge level
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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?

  • problem

    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.