Prime numbers

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Xavi's T-shirt

Age

7 to 16

Challenge level

How much can you read into a T-shirt?
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Favourite

Dicey array

Age

5 to 11

Challenge level

Watch the video of this game being played. Can you work out the rules? Which dice totals are good to get, and why?
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Public key cryptography

An introduction to coding and decoding messages and the maths behind how to secretly share information.
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Factors and multiples game for two

Age

7 to 14

Challenge level

Factors and Multiples game for an adult and child. How can you make sure you win this game?
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Prime counter

Age

16 to 18

Challenge level

A short challenge concerning prime numbers.
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Sieve of Eratosthenes

Age

11 to 14

Challenge level

Follow this recipe for sieving numbers and see what interesting patterns emerge.
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HCF expression

Age

11 to 14

Challenge level

Find out which two distinct primes less than $7$ will give the largest highest common factor of these two expressions.
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Three primes

Age

14 to 16

Challenge level

Weekly Problem 6 - 2010
Can you find three primes such that their product is exactly five times their sum? Do you think you have found all possibilities?
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How much can we spend?

Age

11 to 14

Challenge level

A country has decided to have just two different coins. Which totals can be made? Is there a largest total that cannot be made? How do you know?
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Prime sequences

Age

16 to 18

Challenge level

This group tasks allows you to search for arithmetic progressions in the prime numbers. How many of the challenges will you discover for yourself?