Five More Coins
Could Ben have any amount of money between 5p and £2 in his pocket if he has five coins?
Could Ben have any amount of money between 5p and £2 in his pocket if he has five coins?
This task follows on from Build it Up and takes the ideas into three dimensions!
Can you work out how many cubes were used to make this open box? What size of open box could you make if you had 112 cubes?
This challenge, written for the Young Mathematicians' Award, invites you to explore 'centred squares'.
Can you make dice stairs using the rules stated? How do you know you have all the possible stairs?
This practical challenge invites you to investigate the different squares you can make on a square geoboard or pegboard.
How many ways can you find of tiling the square patio, using square tiles of different sizes?
Place this "worm" on the 100 square and find the total of the four squares it covers. Keeping its head in the same place, what other totals can you make?
When newspaper pages get separated at home we have to try to sort them out and get things in the correct order. How many ways can we arrange these pages so that the numbering may be different?
Let's suppose that you are going to have a magazine which has 16 pages of A5 size. Can you find some different ways to make these pages? Investigate the pattern for each if you number the pages.