Exploring and noticing

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?

What is the smallest number of tiles needed to tile this patio? Can you investigate patios of different sizes?

Place four pebbles on the sand in the form of a square. Keep adding as few pebbles as necessary to double the area. How many extra pebbles are added each time?

This challenge is to design different step arrangements, which must go along a distance of 6 on the steps and must end up at 6 high.

Let's suppose that you are going to have a magazine which has 16 pages of A5 size. Can you find some different ways to make these pages? Investigate the pattern for each if you number the pages.

Start with four numbers at the corners of a square and put the total of two corners in the middle of that side. Keep going... Can you estimate what the size of the last four numbers will be?

How many faces can you see when you arrange these three cubes in different ways?

Six new homes are being built! They can be detached, semi-detached or terraced houses. How many different combinations of these can you find?

How many ways can you find of tiling the square patio, using square tiles of different sizes?

Place the 16 different combinations of cup/saucer in this 4 by 4 arrangement so that no row or column contains more than one cup or saucer of the same colour.