Factors and multiples

  • Multiple Surprises
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    Multiple surprises

    Age
    11 to 16
    Challenge level
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    Sequences of multiples keep cropping up...

  • Robotic Rotations
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    Robotic rotations

    Age
    11 to 16
    Challenge level
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    How did the the rotation robot make these patterns?

  • Funny Factorisation
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    Funny factorisation

    Age
    11 to 16
    Challenge level
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    Using the digits 1 to 9, the number 4396 can be written as the product of two numbers. Can you find the factors?

  • Take Three From Five
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    Take three from five

    Age
    11 to 16
    Challenge level
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    Caroline and James pick sets of five numbers. Charlie tries to find three that add together to make a multiple of three. Can they stop him?

  • Product Sudoku
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    Product Sudoku

    Age
    11 to 16
    Challenge level
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    The clues for this Sudoku are the product of the numbers in adjacent squares.

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    Shopping basket

    Age
    11 to 16
    Challenge level
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    The items in the shopping basket add and multiply to give the same amount. What could their prices be?

  • 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?

  • Substitution Transposed
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    Substitution transposed

    Age
    11 to 16
    Challenge level
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    Substitution and Transposition all in one! How fiendish can these codes get?
  • What does it all add up to?
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    What does it all add up to?

    Age
    11 to 18
    Challenge level
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    If you take four consecutive numbers and add them together, the answer will always be even. What else do you notice?
  • Different by One
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    Different by one

    Age
    14 to 16
    Challenge level
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    Can you make lines of Cuisenaire rods that differ by 1?