Factors and multiples

  • Telescoping Functions
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    Telescoping functions

    Take a complicated fraction with the product of five quartics top and bottom and reduce this to a whole number. This is a numerical example involving some clever algebra.
  • Sums of Squares and Sums of Cubes
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    Sums of squares and sums of cubes

    An account of methods for finding whether or not a number can be written as the sum of two or more squares or as the sum of two or more cubes.
  • Public Key Cryptography
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    Public key cryptography

    An introduction to coding and decoding messages and the maths behind how to secretly share information.
  • Playing with factors and multiples
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    Playing with factors and multiples

    This article for primary teachers outlines why developing an intuitive 'feel' for numbers matters, and how our activities focusing on factors and multiples can help.

  • Mathdoku demonstration
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    Mathdoku demonstration

    This video of Charlie and Liz solving a 6 by 6 Mathdoku may give you ideas for strategies to try.
  • Old Nuts
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    Old nuts

    Age
    16 to 18
    Challenge level
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    In turn 4 people throw away three nuts from a pile and hide a quarter of the remainder finally leaving a multiple of 4 nuts. How many nuts were at the start?
  • Some Cubes
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    Some cubes

    Age
    16 to 18
    Challenge level
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    The sum of the cubes of two numbers is 7163. What are these numbers?
  • N000ughty thoughts
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    N000ughty thoughts

    Age
    14 to 16
    Challenge level
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    How many noughts are at the end of these giant numbers?
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