Working systematically

There are 549 NRICH Mathematical resources connected to Working systematically
This Pied Piper of Hamelin
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This Pied Piper of Hamelin

Age
7 to 11
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Investigate the different numbers of people and rats there could have been if you know how many legs there are altogether!
Finding factors
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Finding factors

Age
14 to 16
Challenge level
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Can you find the hidden factors which multiply together to produce each quadratic expression?
Placeholder: several colourful numbers
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Bent out of Shape

Age
14 to 18
Challenge level
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An introduction to bond angle geometry.
missing multipliers
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Missing Multipliers

Age
7 to 14
Challenge level
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What is the smallest number of answers you need to reveal in order to work out the missing headers?
Beads and bags
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Beads and bags

Age
5 to 11
Challenge level
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How could you put these three beads into bags? How many different ways can you do it? How could you record what you've done?
Training schedule
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Training schedule

Age
14 to 16
Challenge level
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The heptathlon is an athletics competition consisting of 7 events. Can you make sense of the scoring system in order to advise a heptathlete on the best way to reach her target?
Button-Up Some More
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Button-Up Some More

Age
7 to 11
Challenge level
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How many ways can you find to do up all four buttons on my coat? How about if I had five buttons? Six ...?
Which is cheaper?
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Which is cheaper?

Age
14 to 16
Challenge level
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When I park my car in Mathstown, there are two car parks to choose from. Can you help me to decide which one to use?
Ante Up
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Ante Up

Age
16 to 18
Challenge level
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Use cunning to work out a strategy to win this game.
Area and perimeter
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Area and perimeter

Age
7 to 11
Challenge level
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What can you say about these shapes? This problem challenges you to create shapes with different areas and perimeters.