Being resourceful

  • Growing Surprises
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    Growing Surprises

    Age
    11 to 14
    Challenge level
    1 out of 3

    Can you find the connections between linear and quadratic patterns?

  • Gabriel's Problem
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    Gabriel's Problem

    Age
    11 to 14
    Challenge level
    1 out of 3

    Gabriel multiplied together some numbers and then erased them. Can you figure out where each number was?

  • Guess \my Quad
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    Guess My Quad

    Age
    11 to 14
    Challenge level
    1 out of 3

    How many questions do you need to identify my quadrilateral?

  • Polygon Rings
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    Polygon Rings

    Age
    11 to 14
    Challenge level
    1 out of 3

    Join pentagons together edge to edge. Will they form a ring?

  • More Isometric Areas
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    More Isometric Areas

    Age
    11 to 14
    Challenge level
    2 out of 3

    Isometric Areas explored areas of parallelograms in triangular units. Here we explore areas of triangles...

  • Transformation Game
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    Transformation Game

    Age
    11 to 14
    Challenge level
    2 out of 3

    Why not challenge a friend to play this transformation game?

  • Counting Factors
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    Counting Factors

    Age
    11 to 14
    Challenge level
    2 out of 3

    Is there an efficient way to work out how many factors a large number has?

  • Legs Eleven
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    Legs Eleven

    Age
    11 to 14
    Challenge level
    2 out of 3

    Take any four digit number. Move the first digit to the end and move the rest along. Now add your two numbers. Did you get a multiple of 11?

  • Where can we visit?
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    Where Can We Visit?

    Age
    11 to 14
    Challenge level
    2 out of 3

    Charlie and Abi put a counter on 42. They wondered if they could visit all the other numbers on their 1-100 board, moving the counter using just these two operations: ×2 and -5. What do you think?

  • 1 Step 2 Step
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    1 Step 2 Step

    Age
    11 to 14
    Challenge level
    2 out of 3

    Liam's house has a staircase with 12 steps. He can go down the steps one at a time or two at time. In how many different ways can Liam go down the 12 steps?