Prime numbers

  • Prime sequences
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    Prime sequences

    Age
    16 to 18
    Challenge level
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    This group tasks allows you to search for arithmetic progressions in the prime numbers. How many of the challenges will you discover for yourself?
  • Little Goldbach
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    Little Goldbach

    Age
    11 to 14
    Challenge level
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    How many of the numbers 1 to 20 are not the sum of two primes?

  • 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.
  • 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?

  • Rarity
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    Rarity

    Age
    16 to 18
    Challenge level
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    Show that it is rare for a ratio of ratios to be rational.
  • Factors and Multiples Puzzle
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    Factors and multiples puzzle

    Age
    11 to 14
    Challenge level
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    Using your knowledge of the properties of numbers, can you fill all the squares on the board?
  • There's always One isn't there
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    There's always one isn't there

    Age
    14 to 16
    Challenge level
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    Take any pair of numbers, say 9 and 14. Take the larger number, fourteen, and count up in 14s. Then divide each of those values by the 9, and look at the remainders.
  • Numbers as Shapes
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    Numbers as shapes

    Age
    5 to 7
    Challenge level
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    Use cubes to continue making the numbers from 7 to 20. Are they sticks, rectangles or squares?
  • Prime Order
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    Prime order

    Age
    11 to 14
    Challenge level
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    Weekly Problem 24 - 2006
    How many of the rearrangements of the digits 1, 3 and 5 give prime numbers?
  • Different by One
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    Different by one

    Age
    14 to 16
    Challenge level
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    Can you make lines of Cuisenaire rods that differ by 1?