Fractions

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Pizza Portions

Age

7 to 11

Challenge level

My friends and I love pizza. Can you help us share these pizzas equally?
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Doughnut

Age

7 to 11

Challenge level

How can you cut a doughnut into 8 equal pieces with only three cuts of a knife?
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Red Balloons, Blue Balloons

Age

7 to 11

Challenge level

Katie and Will have some balloons. Will's balloon burst at exactly the same size as Katie's at the beginning of a puff. How many puffs had Will done before his balloon burst?
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Dividing a Cake

Age

7 to 11

Challenge level

Annie cut this numbered cake into 3 pieces with 3 cuts so that the numbers on each piece added to the same total. Where were the cuts and what fraction of the whole cake was each piece?
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Once Upon a Time

Age

7 to 11

Challenge level

Can you work out the height of Baby Bear's chair and whose bed is whose if all the things the three bears have are in the same proportions?
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Snake Coils

Age

7 to 11

Challenge level

This challenge asks you to imagine a snake coiling on itself.
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Pies

Age

7 to 11

Challenge level

Grandma found her pie balanced on the scale with two weights and a quarter of a pie. So how heavy was each pie?
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Fun Time

Age

7 to 11

Challenge level

On Saturday, Asha and Kishan's grandad took them to a theme park. Use the information to work out how long they were in the theme park.
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Light Blue - Dark Blue

Age

7 to 11

Challenge level

Investigate the successive areas of light blue in these diagrams.
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Magic Matrix

Age

7 to 11

Challenge level

Find out why these matrices are magic. Can you work out how they were made? Can you make your own Magic Matrix?