Working systematically

  • Two's company
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    Two's company

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    11 to 14
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    Seven balls are shaken. You win if the two blue balls end up touching. What is the probability of winning?

  • Cosy corner
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    Cosy corner

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    11 to 14
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    Six balls are shaken. You win if at least one red ball ends in a corner. What is the probability of winning?

  • Speeding up, slowing down
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    Speeding up, slowing down

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    11 to 14
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    Experiment with the interactivity of "rolling" regular polygons, and explore how the different positions of the dot affects its speed at each stage.

  • Squares in rectangles
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    Squares in rectangles

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    11 to 14
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    A 2 by 3 rectangle contains 8 squares and a 3 by 4 rectangle contains 20 squares. What sizes of rectangle contain exactly 100 squares? Can you find them all?

  • Weights
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    Weights

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    11 to 14
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    Different combinations of the weights available allow you to make different totals. Which totals can you make?

  • Power mad!
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    Power mad!

    Age
    11 to 14
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    Powers of numbers behave in surprising ways. Take a look at some of these and try to explain why they are true.

  • Opposite vertices
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    Opposite vertices

    Age
    11 to 14
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    Can you recreate squares and rhombuses if you are only given a side or a diagonal?

  • A blue patchwork quilt draped over a white sofa.
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    Alison's quilt

    Age
    11 to 14
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    Nine squares are fitted together to form a rectangle. Can you find its dimensions?

  • Changing areas, changing volumes
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    Changing areas, changing volumes

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    11 to 14
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    How can you change the surface area of a cuboid but keep its volume the same? How can you change the volume but keep the surface area the same?

  • Non-Transitive Dice
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    Non-transitive dice

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    11 to 14
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    Alison and Charlie are playing a game. Charlie wants to go first so Alison lets him. Was that such a good idea?