Working systematically
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problemI 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? -
problemPalindromic date
What is the date in February 2002 where the 8 digits are palindromic if the date is written in the British way? -
problemAmerican billions
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...
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problemDodecamagic
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? -
problemTwo and two
How many solutions can you find to this sum? Each of the different letters stands for a different number.
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problemParabolic patterns
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.
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problemNine colours
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?
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problemFamily tree
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. -
problemCayley
The letters in the following addition sum represent the digits 1 ... 9. If A=3 and D=2, what number is represented by "CAYLEY"? -
problemWhere can we visit?
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?