Working systematically

If you had any number of ordinary dice, what are the possible ways of making their totals 6? What would the product of the dice be each time?

Investigate all the different squares you can make on this 5 by 5 grid by making your starting side go from the bottom left hand point. Can you find out the areas of all these squares?

The challenge here is to find as many routes as you can for a fence to go so that this town is divided up into two halves, each with 8 blocks.

Roll two red dice and a green dice. Add the two numbers on the red dice and take away the number on the green. What are all the different possible answers?

What is the smallest number of tiles needed to tile this patio? Can you investigate patios of different sizes?

If we had 16 light bars which digital numbers could we make? How will you know you've found them all?

This challenge is to design different step arrangements, which must go along a distance of 6 on the steps and must end up at 6 high.

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.

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?

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?