Working systematically
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Charitable pennies
Investigate the different ways that fifteen schools could have given money in a charity fundraiser.
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Rod area
This task challenges you to create symmetrical U shapes out of rods and find their areas.
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Latin lilies
In this game you are challenged to gain more columns of lily pads than your opponent.
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Neighbourly addition
I added together some of my neighbours' house numbers. Can you explain the patterns I noticed?
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Sticky dice
Throughout these challenges, the touching faces of any adjacent dice must have the same number. Can you find a way of making the total on the top come to each number from 11 to 18 inclusive?
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Window frames
This task encourages you to investigate the number of edging pieces and panes in different sized windows.
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Folded number line
When I fold a 0-20 number line, I end up with 'stacks' of numbers on top of each other. These challenges involve varying the length of the number line and investigating the 'stack totals'.
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Possible pieces
Can you create jigsaw pieces which are based on a square shape, with at least one peg and one hole?