Working systematically

There are 604 NRICH Mathematical resources connected to Working systematically
Facial Sums
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Facial sums

Age
14 to 16
Challenge level
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Can you make the numbers around each face of this solid add up to the same total?
Train Carriages
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Train carriages

Age
5 to 11
Challenge level
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Suppose there is a train with 24 carriages which are going to be put together to make up some new trains. Can you find all the ways that this can be done?
Leap Frog
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Leap frog

Age
5 to 7
Challenge level
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The brown frog and green frog want to swap places without getting wet. They can hop onto a lily pad next to them, or hop over each other. How could they do it?
Teddy Bear Line-Up
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Teddy bear line-up

Age
5 to 7
Challenge level
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What is the least number of moves you can take to rearrange the bears so that no bear is next to a bear of the same colour?
Purr-fection
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Purr-fection

Age
16 to 18
Challenge level
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What is the smallest perfect square that ends with the four digits 9009?
Home City
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Home city

Age
7 to 11
Challenge level
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Use the clues to work out which cities Mohamed, Sheng, Tanya and Bharat live in.
Broken Toaster
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Broken toaster

Age
7 to 11
Challenge level
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Only one side of a two-slice toaster is working. What is the quickest way to toast both sides of three slices of bread?
Team Scream
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Team scream

Age
7 to 11
Challenge level
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Seven friends went to a fun fair with lots of scary rides. They decided to pair up for rides until each friend had ridden once with each of the others. What was the total number rides?
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?