Visualising and representing

  • Two Spinners
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    Two spinners

    Age
    5 to 7
    Challenge level
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    What two-digit numbers can you make with these two dice? What can't you make?

  • Trisected Triangle
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    Trisected triangle

    Age
    14 to 16
    Challenge level
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    Weekly Problem 34 - 2015
    Four tiles are given. For which of them can three be placed together to form an equilateral triangle?
  • Eulerian
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    Eulerian

    Age
    14 to 16
    Challenge level
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    Weekly Problem 37 - 2014
    Which of the five diagrams below could be drawn without taking the pen off the page and without drawing along a line already drawn?
  • Product and Sum
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    Product and sum

    Age
    11 to 14
    Challenge level
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    When Jim rolled some dice, the scores had the same product and sum. How many dice did Jim roll?
  • Pyramidal n-gon
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    Pyramidal n-gon

    Age
    14 to 16
    Challenge level
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    The base of a pyramid has n edges. What is the difference between the number of edges the pyramid has and the number of faces the pyramid has?
  • Reflected Back
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    Reflected back

    Age
    11 to 14
    Challenge level
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    Imagine reflecting the letter P in all three sides of a triangle in turn. What is the final result?
  • In or Out?
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    In or out?

    Age
    14 to 16
    Challenge level
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    Weekly Problem 52 - 2014
    Four arcs are drawn in a circle to create a shaded area. What fraction of the area of the circle is shaded?
  • Fifty Coins
    problem

    Fifty coins

    Age
    11 to 14
    Challenge level
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    Cheryl finds a bag of coins. Can you work out how many more 5p coins than 2p coins are in the bag?
  • Relative Time
    problem

    Relative time

    Age
    14 to 16
    Challenge level
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    Albert Einstein is experimenting with two unusual clocks. At what time do they next agree?
  • Painted Octahedron
    problem

    Painted octahedron

    Age
    11 to 14
    Challenge level
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    What is the smallest number of colours needed to paint the faces of a regular octahedron so that no adjacent faces are the same colour?