Being resilient

  • Round the Dice Decimals 2
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    Round the dice decimals 2

    Age
    7 to 11
    Challenge level
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    What happens when you round these numbers to the nearest whole number?

  • Round the Dice Decimals 1
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    Round the dice decimals 1

    Age
    7 to 11
    Challenge level
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    Use two dice to generate two numbers with one decimal place. What happens when you round these numbers to the nearest whole number?

  • Less is More
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    Less is more

    Age
    7 to 11
    Challenge level
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    Use your knowledge of place value to try to win this game. How will you maximise your score?

  • Diagonally Square
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    Diagonally square

    Age
    7 to 11
    Challenge level
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    Ayah conjectures that the diagonals of a square meet at right angles. Do you agree? How could you find out?

  • Seeing Parallelograms
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    Seeing parallelograms

    Age
    7 to 11
    Challenge level
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    Players take it in turns to choose a dot on the grid. The winner is the first to have four dots that can be joined to form a parallelogram.

  • Digit Discovery
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    Digit discovery

    Age
    7 to 11
    Challenge level
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    Here is an interesting property about two sets of digits. Can you work out what the digits might be?

  • Price Match
    problem

    Price match

    Age
    7 to 11
    Challenge level
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    Can you find pairs of differently sized windows that cost the same?

  • Roll these Dice
    problem

    Roll these dice

    Age
    7 to 11
    Challenge level
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    Roll two red dice and a green dice. Add the two numbers on the red dice and take away the number on the green. What are all the different possible answers?

  • Making Boxes
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    Making boxes

    Age
    7 to 11
    Challenge level
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    Cut differently-sized square corners from a square piece of paper to make boxes without lids. Do they all have the same volume?

  • Making Cuboids
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    Making cuboids

    Age
    7 to 11
    Challenge level
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    Let's say you can only use two different lengths - 2 units and 4 units. Using just these 2 lengths as the edges how many different cuboids can you make?