Being resourceful

  • Two's company
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    Two's Company

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    11 to 14
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    Seven balls are shaken. You win if the two blue balls end up touching. What is the probability of winning?

  • Cosy corner
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    Cosy Corner

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    11 to 14
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    Six balls are shaken. You win if at least one red ball ends in a corner. What is the probability of winning?

  • Speeding up, slowing down
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    Speeding Up, Slowing Down

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    11 to 14
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    Experiment with the interactivity of "rolling" regular polygons, and explore how the different positions of the dot affects its speed at each stage.

  • Factors and Multiples Puzzle
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    Factors and Multiples Puzzle

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

  • The Tower of Hanoi - three wooden poles, with several coloured rings of decreasing sizes on the middle pole.
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    Tower of Hanoi

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    11 to 14
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    The Tower of Hanoi is an ancient mathematical challenge. Working on the building blocks may help you to explain the patterns you notice.

  • Seven Squares
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    Seven Squares

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    11 to 14
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    Watch these videos to see how Phoebe, Alice and Luke chose to draw 7 squares. How would they draw 100?

  • Temperature
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    Temperature

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    11 to 14
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    Is there a temperature at which Celsius and Fahrenheit readings are the same?

  • Always a multiple?
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    Always a Multiple?

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    11 to 14
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    Think of a two digit number, reverse the digits, and add the numbers together. Something special happens...

  • Garden Shed
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    Garden Shed

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    11 to 14
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    Can you minimise the amount of wood needed to build the roof of my garden shed?

  • Unequal Averages
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    Unequal Averages

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    11 to 14
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    Play around with sets of five numbers and see what you can discover about different types of average...