Factors and multiples

There are 243 NRICH Mathematical resources connected to Factors and multiples
Multiples Grid
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Multiples Grid

Age
7 to 11
Challenge level
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What do the numbers shaded in blue on this hundred square have in common? What do you notice about the pink numbers? How about the shaded numbers in the other squares?
There's always One isn't there
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There's always One isn't there

Age
14 to 16
Challenge level
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Take any pair of numbers, say 9 and 14. Take the larger number, fourteen, and count up in 14s. Then divide each of those values by the 9, and look at the remainders.
Numbers as Shapes
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Numbers as Shapes

Age
5 to 7
Challenge level
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Use cubes to continue making the numbers from 7 to 20. Are they sticks, rectangles or squares?
Coin Collection
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Coin Collection

Age
14 to 16
Challenge level
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When coins are put into piles of six 3 remain and in piles of eight 7 remain. How many remain when they are put into piles of 24?
Find from Factors
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Find from Factors

Age
11 to 14
Challenge level
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Weekly Problem 35 - 2006
A number has exactly eight factors, two of which are 21 and 35. What is the number?
Essential Supplies
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Essential Supplies

Age
14 to 16
Challenge level
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Chocolate bars come in boxes of 5 or boxes of 12. How many boxes do you need to have exactly 2005 chocolate bars?
Prime Order
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Prime Order

Age
11 to 14
Challenge level
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Weekly Problem 24 - 2006
How many of the rearrangements of the digits 1, 3 and 5 give prime numbers?
Diagonal Product Sudoku
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Diagonal Product Sudoku

Age
11 to 16
Challenge level
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Given the products of diagonally opposite cells - can you complete this Sudoku?
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.
Stair Climb
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Stair Climb

Age
11 to 14
Challenge level
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Three people run up stairs at different rates. If they each start from a different point - who will win, come second and come last?