Working systematically

  • A First Product Sudoku
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    A First Product Sudoku

    Age
    7 to 14
    Challenge level
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    Given the products of adjacent cells, can you complete this Sudoku?

  • Neighbourly Addition
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    Neighbourly Addition

    Age
    7 to 14
    Challenge level
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    I added together some of my neighbours' house numbers. Can you explain the patterns I noticed?

  • Water lily and lily pads.
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    Latin Lilies

    Age
    7 to 14
    Challenge level
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    In this game you are challenged to gain more columns of lily pads than your opponent.

  • Charitable Pennies
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    Charitable Pennies

    Age
    7 to 14
    Challenge level
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    Investigate the different ways that fifteen schools could have given money in a charity fundraiser.
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    Number Sandwiches

    Age
    7 to 14
    Challenge level
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    Can you arrange the digits 1, 1, 2, 2, 3 and 3 to make a Number Sandwich?

  • Tea Cups
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    Tea Cups

    Age
    7 to 14
    Challenge level
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    Place the 16 different combinations of cup/saucer in this 4 by 4 arrangement so that no row or column contains more than one cup or saucer of the same colour.

  • More children and plants
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    More Children and Plants

    Age
    7 to 14
    Challenge level
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    This challenge extends the Plants investigation so now four or more children are involved.
  • More plant spaces
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    More Plant Spaces

    Age
    7 to 14
    Challenge level
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    This challenging activity involves finding different ways to distribute fifteen items among four sets, when the sets must include three, four, five and six items.
  • Building with longer rods
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    Building With Longer Rods

    Age
    7 to 14
    Challenge level
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    A challenging activity focusing on finding all possible ways of stacking rods.
  • Colour in the Square
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    Colour in the Square

    Age
    7 to 16
    Challenge level
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    Can you put the 25 coloured tiles into the 5 × 5 square so that no column, no row and no diagonal line have tiles of the same colour in them?