Working systematically

There are 549 NRICH Mathematical resources connected to Working systematically
A Shapely Network
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A Shapely Network

Age
7 to 11
Challenge level
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Your challenge is to find the longest way through the network following this rule. You can start and finish anywhere, and with any shape, as long as you follow the correct order.
Home Time
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Home Time

Age
7 to 11
Challenge level
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Alice's mum needs to go to each child's house just once and then back home again. How many different routes are there? Use the information to find out how long each road is on the route she took.
Colour in the Square
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Colour in the Square

Age
7 to 16
Challenge level
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Can you put the 25 coloured tiles into the 5 x 5 square so that no column, no row and no diagonal line have tiles of the same colour in them?
Four Colours
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Four Colours

Age
5 to 11
Challenge level
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Kate has eight multilink cubes. She has two red ones, two yellow, two green and two blue. She wants to fit them together to make a cube so that each colour shows on each face just once.
A Bit of a Dicey problem
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A Bit of a Dicey problem

Age
7 to 11
Challenge level
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When you throw two regular, six-faced dice you have more chance of getting one particular result than any other. What result would that be? Why is this?
A-magical number maze
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A-magical number maze

Age
7 to 11
Challenge level
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This magic square has operations written in it, to make it into a maze. Start wherever you like, go through every cell and go out a total of 15!
Spell by Numbers
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Spell by Numbers

Age
7 to 11
Challenge level
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Can you substitute numbers for the letters in these sums?
Mystery Matrix
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Mystery Matrix

Age
7 to 11
Challenge level
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Can you fill in this table square? The numbers 2 -12 were used to generate it with just one number used twice.
The Moons of Vuvv
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The Moons of Vuvv

Age
7 to 11
Challenge level
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The planet of Vuvv has seven moons. Can you work out how long it is between each super-eclipse?
Plates of Biscuits
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Plates of Biscuits

Age
7 to 11
Challenge level
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Can you rearrange the biscuits on the plates so that the three biscuits on each plate are all different and there is no plate with two biscuits the same as two biscuits on another plate?