Factors and multiples

  • Millennium Leap
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    Millennium leap

    Age
    11 to 14
    Challenge level
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    How many leap years will there be between 2001 and 3001?
  • What a Joke
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    What a joke

    Age
    14 to 16
    Challenge level
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    Each letter represents a different positive digit AHHAAH / JOKE = HA What are the values of each of the letters?
  • Money Measure
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    Money measure

    Age
    7 to 11
    Challenge level
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    How can you use just one weighing to find out which box contains the lighter ten coins out of the ten boxes?
  • Cuboids
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    Cuboids

    Age
    11 to 14
    Challenge level
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    Can you find a cuboid that has a surface area of exactly 100 square units. Is there more than one? Can you find them all?

  • Ben's Game
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    Ben's game

    Age
    11 to 16
    Challenge level
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    Ben, Jack and Emma passed counters to each other and ended with the same number of counters. How many did they start with?
  • 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
    problem

    Lots of lollies

    Age
    5 to 7
    Challenge level
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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?
  • Number Tracks
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    Number tracks

    Age
    7 to 11
    Challenge level
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    Ben's class were cutting up number tracks. First they cut them into twos and added up the numbers on each piece. What patterns could they see?
  • Colour Wheels
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    Colour wheels

    Age
    7 to 11
    Challenge level
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    Imagine a wheel with different markings painted on it at regular intervals. Can you predict the colour of the 18th mark? The 100th mark?