Conjecturing and generalising

There are 343 NRICH Mathematical resources connected to Conjecturing and generalising
Stars
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Stars

Age
11 to 14
Challenge level
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Can you work out what step size to take to ensure you visit all the dots on the circle?
Can it be?
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Can it be?

Age
16 to 18
Challenge level
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When if ever do you get the right answer if you add two fractions by adding the numerators and adding the denominators?
Lots of Lollies
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Lots of Lollies

Age
5 to 7
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Frances and Rishi were given a bag of lollies. They shared them out evenly and had one left over. How many lollies could there have been in the bag?
Share Bears
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Share Bears

Age
5 to 7
Challenge level
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Yasmin and Zach have some bears to share. Which numbers of bears can they share so that there are none left over?
The Bridges of Konigsberg
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The Bridges of Konigsberg

Age
11 to 18
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Investigate how networks can be used to solve a problem for the 18th Century inhabitants of Konigsberg.
Tourism
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Tourism

Age
11 to 14
Challenge level
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If you can copy a network without lifting your pen off the paper and without drawing any line twice, then it is traversable. Decide which of these diagrams are traversable.
Painted Cube
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Painted Cube

Age
14 to 16
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Imagine a large cube made from small red cubes being dropped into a pot of yellow paint. How many of the small cubes will have yellow paint on their faces?
Tilted Squares
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Tilted Squares

Age
11 to 14
Challenge level
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It's easy to work out the areas of most squares that we meet, but what if they were tilted?
Coordinate Patterns
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Coordinate Patterns

Age
11 to 14
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Charlie and Alison have been drawing patterns on coordinate grids. Can you picture where the patterns lead?
Seven Squares - Group-worthy Task
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Seven Squares - Group-worthy Task

Age
11 to 14
Challenge level
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Choose a couple of the sequences. Try to picture how to make the next, and the next, and the next... Can you describe your reasoning?