Working systematically

  • Plate Spotting
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    Plate spotting

    Age
    7 to 11
    Challenge level
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    I was in my car when I noticed a line of four cars on the lane next to me with number plates starting and ending with J, K, L and M. What order were they in?
  • Palindromic Date
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    Palindromic date

    Age
    7 to 11
    Challenge level
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    What is the date in February 2002 where the 8 digits are palindromic if the date is written in the British way?
  • American Billions
    problem

    American billions

    Age
    11 to 14
    Challenge level
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    Play the divisibility game to create numbers in which the first two digits make a number divisible by 2, the first three digits make a number divisible by 3...

  • Dodecamagic
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    Dodecamagic

    Age
    7 to 11
    Challenge level
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    Here you see the front and back views of a dodecahedron. Each vertex has been numbered so that the numbers around each pentagonal face add up to 65. Can you find all the missing numbers?
  • Two and Two
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    Two and two

    Age
    7 to 16
    Challenge level
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    How many solutions can you find to this sum? Each of the different letters stands for a different number.

  • Parabolic Patterns
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    Parabolic patterns

    Age
    14 to 18
    Challenge level
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    The illustration shows the graphs of fifteen functions. Two of them have equations $y=x^2$ and $y=-(x-4)^2$. Find the equations of all the other graphs.

  • Nine Colours
    problem

    Nine colours

    Age
    11 to 16
    Challenge level
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    Can you use small coloured cubes to make a 3 by 3 by 3 cube so that each face of the bigger cube contains one of each colour?

  • Family Tree
    problem

    Family tree

    Age
    7 to 11
    Challenge level
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    Use the clues to find out who's who in the family, to fill in the family tree and to find out which of the family members are mathematicians and which are not.
  • Cayley
    problem

    Cayley

    Age
    11 to 14
    Challenge level
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    The letters in the following addition sum represent the digits 1 ... 9. If A=3 and D=2, what number is represented by "CAYLEY"?
  • Where can we visit?
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    Where can we visit?

    Age
    11 to 14
    Challenge level
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    Charlie and Abi put a counter on 42. They wondered if they could visit all the other numbers on their 1-100 board, moving the counter using just these two operations: x2 and -5. What do you think?