Place value

There are 134 NRICH Mathematical resources connected to Place value
Digit Sum
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Digit Sum

Age
14 to 16
Challenge level
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What is the sum of all the digits in all the integers from one to one million?
Repeaters
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Repeaters

Age
11 to 14
Challenge level
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Choose any 3 digits and make a 6 digit number by repeating the 3 digits in the same order (e.g. 594594). Explain why whatever digits you choose the number will always be divisible by 7, 11 and 13.
2-Digit Square
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2-Digit Square

Age
14 to 16
Challenge level
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A 2-Digit number is squared. When this 2-digit number is reversed and squared, the difference between the squares is also a square. What is the 2-digit number?
Latin Numbers
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Latin Numbers

Age
14 to 16
Challenge level
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Can you create a Latin Square from multiples of a six digit number?
Basic Rhythms
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Basic Rhythms

Age
16 to 18
Challenge level
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Explore a number pattern which has the same symmetries in different bases.
Binary Squares
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Binary Squares

Age
16 to 18
Challenge level
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If a number N is expressed in binary by using only 'ones,' what can you say about its square (in binary)?
Novemberish
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Novemberish

Age
14 to 16
Challenge level
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a) A four digit number (in base 10) aabb is a perfect square. Discuss ways of systematically finding this number. (b) Prove that 11^{10}-1 is divisible by 100.
DOTS Division
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DOTS Division

Age
14 to 16
Challenge level
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Take any pair of two digit numbers x=ab and y=cd where, without loss of generality, ab > cd . Form two 4 digit numbers r=abcd and s=cdab and calculate: {r^2 - s^2} /{x^2 - y^2}.
BT.. Eat your heart out
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BT.. Eat your heart out

Age
16 to 18
Challenge level
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If the last four digits of my phone number are placed in front of the remaining three you get one more than twice my number! What is it?
Purr-fection
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Purr-fection

Age
16 to 18
Challenge level
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What is the smallest perfect square that ends with the four digits 9009?