Working systematically

  • Four coloured wooden cubes balanced precariously to make a tower.
    problem

    Instant Insanity

    Age
    11 to 18
    Challenge level
    3 out of 3

    Given the nets of 4 cubes with the faces coloured in 4 colours, build a tower so that on each vertical wall no colour is repeated.

  • LOGO Challenge - Pentagram Pylons
    problem

    Logo Challenge - Pentagram Pylons

    Age
    11 to 18
    Challenge level
    3 out of 3

    Pentagram Pylons - can you elegantly recreate them? Or, the European flag in LOGO - what poses the greater problem?

  • LOGO Challenge - Sequences and Pentagrams
    problem

    Logo Challenge - Sequences and Pentagrams

    Age
    11 to 18
    Challenge level
    3 out of 3

    Explore this how this program produces the sequences it does. What are you controlling when you change the values of the variables?

  • LOGO Challenge - Following on
    problem

    Logo Challenge - Following On

    Age
    11 to 18
    Challenge level
    3 out of 3

    Remember that you want someone following behind you to see where you went. Can yo work out how these patterns were created and recreate them?

  • Smith and Jones
    problem

    Smith and Jones

    Age
    14 to 16
    Challenge level
    1 out of 3

    Mr Smith and Mr Jones are two maths teachers. By asking questions, the answers to which may be right or wrong, Mr Jones is able to find the number of the house Mr Smith lives in... Or not!

  • Small pepper seedlings in turquoise pots.
    problem

    Dicey Directions

    Age
    14 to 16
    Challenge level
    1 out of 3

    An ordinary die is placed on a horizontal table with the '1' face facing East... In which direction is the '1' face facing after this sequence of moves?

  • Small pepper seedlings in orange pots.
    problem

    Adjacent Additions

    Age
    14 to 16
    Challenge level
    1 out of 3

    In a 7-digit numerical code, each group of four consecutive digits adds to 16, and each group of five consecutive digits adds to 19. What is the sum of all 7 digits?

  • Small tomato seedlings in pink pots.
    problem

    End of a Prime

    Age
    14 to 16
    Challenge level
    1 out of 3

    I made a list of every number that is the units digit of at least one prime number. How many digits appear in the list?

  • Small tomato seedlings in pink pots.
    problem

    Threes and Fours

    Age
    14 to 16
    Challenge level
    1 out of 3

    What is the smallest integer where every digit is a 3 or a 4 and it is divisible by both 3 and 4?

  • Quadratic Matching
    problem

    Quadratic Matching

    Age
    14 to 16
    Challenge level
    1 out of 3

    Can you match each graph to one of the statements?