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Number Rules - OK

Age

14 to 16

Challenge level

Can you produce convincing arguments that a selection of statements about numbers are true?
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Latin Numbers

Age

14 to 16

Challenge level

Can you create a Latin Square from multiples of a six digit number?
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2-Digit Square

Age

14 to 16

Challenge level

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?
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Sixty-Seven Squared

Age

16 to 18

Challenge level

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?
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Double Digit

Age

11 to 14

Challenge level

Choose two digits and arrange them to make two double-digit numbers. Now add your double-digit numbers. Now add your single digit numbers. Divide your double-digit answer by your single-digit answer. Try lots of examples. What happens? Can you explain it?
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Purr-Fection

Age

16 to 18

Challenge level

What is the smallest perfect square that ends with the four digits 9009?
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Novemberish

Age

14 to 16

Challenge level

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.
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Lesser Digits

Age

11 to 14

Challenge level

How many positive integers less than or equal to 4000 can be written down without using the digits 7, 8 or 9?
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Alphabet Soup

Age

11 to 14

Challenge level

This challenge is to make up YOUR OWN alphanumeric. Each letter represents a digit and where the same letter appears more than once it must represent the same digit each time.
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Chocolate Maths

Age

11 to 14

Challenge level

Pick the number of times a week that you eat chocolate. This number must be more than one but less than ten. Multiply this number by 2. Add 5 (for Sunday). Multiply by 50... Can you explain why it works?