Place value

There are 140 NRICH Mathematical resources connected to Place value
Sixty-Seven Squared
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Sixty-seven squared

Age
16 to 18
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Evaluate these powers of 67. What do you notice? Can you convince someone what the answer would be to (a million sixes followed by a 7) squared?
What Do you Need?
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What do you need?

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7 to 11
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Four of these clues are needed to find the chosen number on this grid and four are true but do nothing to help in finding the number. Can you sort out the clues and find the number?
Dicey Operations
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Dicey operations

Who said that adding, subtracting, multiplying and dividing couldn't be fun?

Trebling
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Trebling

Age
7 to 11
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Can you replace the letters with numbers? Is there only one solution in each case?
Four-digit targets
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Four-digit targets

Age
7 to 11
Challenge level
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You have two sets of the digits 0-9. Can you arrange these in the five boxes to make four-digit numbers as close to the target numbers as possible?
The Deca Tree
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The deca tree

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7 to 11
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Find out what a Deca Tree is and then work out how many leaves there will be after the woodcutter has cut off a trunk, a branch, a twig and a leaf.
Two-digit targets
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Two-digit targets

Age
5 to 7
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You have a set of the digits from 0 to 9. Can you arrange these in the five boxes to make two-digit numbers as close to the targets as possible?

What an odd fact(or)
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What an odd fact(or)

Age
11 to 14
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Can you show that 1^99 + 2^99 + 3^99 + 4^99 + 5^99 is divisible by 5?
Coded hundred square
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Coded hundred square

Age
7 to 11
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This 100 square jigsaw is written in code. It starts with 1 and ends with 100. Can you build it up?