Exploring and noticing

  • Square It
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    Square It

    Age
    11 to 16
    Challenge level
    1 out of 3

    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 square.

  • Arithmagons
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    Arithmagons

    Age
    11 to 16
    Challenge level
    1 out of 3

    Can you find the values at the vertices when you know the values on the edges?

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    Cyclic Quadrilaterals

    Age
    11 to 16
    Challenge level
    1 out of 3

    Draw some quadrilaterals on a 9-point circle and work out the angles. Is there a theorem?

  • Charlie's delightful machine
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    Charlie's Delightful Machine

    Age
    11 to 16
    Challenge level
    1 out of 3

    Here is a machine with four coloured lights. Can you develop a strategy to work out the rules controlling each light?

  • Multiple Surprises
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    Multiple Surprises

    Age
    11 to 16
    Challenge level
    1 out of 3

    Sequences of multiples keep cropping up...

  • Countdown fractions
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    Countdown Fractions

    Age
    11 to 16
    Challenge level
    1 out of 3

    Here is a chance to play a fractions version of the classic Countdown Game.

  • Parallelogram It
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    Parallelogram It

    Age
    11 to 16
    Challenge level
    1 out of 3

    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.

  • A blue map of electronic connections between people.
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    Connecting Averages

    Age
    11 to 16
    Challenge level
    1 out of 3

    The number in the square is the mean of the four numbers surrounding it. Can you find the missing numbers? 

  • Robotic Rotations
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    Robotic Rotations

    Age
    11 to 16
    Challenge level
    2 out of 3

    How did the the rotation robot make these patterns?

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    Marbles in a Box

    Age
    11 to 16
    Challenge level
    2 out of 3

    How many winning lines can you make in a three-dimensional version of noughts and crosses?