Logic

There are 16 NRICH Mathematical resources connected to Logic
Circular circuitry
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Favourite

Circular circuitry

Age
16 to 18
Challenge level
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What will happen when you switch on these circular circuits?
Adding machine
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Adding machine

Age
16 to 18
Challenge level
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Can you set the logic gates so that this machine can decide how many bulbs have been switched on?
Tom learns to cook
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Tom learns to cook

Age
7 to 11
Challenge level
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If Tom wants to learn to cook his favourite supper, he needs to make a schedule so that everything is ready at the same time.
The Jabber-Notty
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The jabber-notty

Age
16 to 18
Challenge level
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Can you invert this confusing sentence from Lewis Carrol?
crossing the bridge
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Crossing the bridge

Age
11 to 18
Challenge level
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Four friends must cross a bridge. How can they all cross it in just 17 minutes?
Coins
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Coins

Age
11 to 14
Challenge level
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A man has 5 coins in his pocket. Given the clues, can you work out what the coins are?
flow chart
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Flow chart

Age
11 to 14
Challenge level
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The flow chart requires two numbers, M and N. Select several values for M and try to establish what the flow chart does.
Procedure solver
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Procedure solver

Age
16 to 18
Challenge level
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Can you think like a computer and work out what this flow diagram does?
Not another NAND!
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Not another nand!

Age
14 to 18
Challenge level
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Prove that you can make any type of logic gate using just NAND gates.