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Maths trails
The NRICH team are always looking for new ways to engage teachers
and pupils in problem solving. Here we explain the thinking behind
maths trails.
Working systematically
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Making maths: double-sided magic square
Make your own double-sided magic square. But can you complete both
sides once you've made the pieces?
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Problem solving, using and applying and functional mathematics
Problem solving is at the heart of the NRICH site. All the problems
give learners opportunities to learn, develop or use mathematical
concepts and skills. Read here for more information.
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Integrated sums sudoku
The puzzle can be solved with the help of small clue-numbers which
are either placed on the border lines between selected pairs of
neighbouring squares of the grid or placed after slash marks on the
intersections between two diagonally adjacent squares.
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Nrich starter problem selection
On this page we give a selection of good starter activities for those new to NRICH
interactivity
Introducing nrich twilgo
We're excited about this new program for drawing beautiful mathematical designs. Can you work out how we made our first few pictures and, even better, share your most elegant solutions with us?
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Impuzzable
This is about a fiendishly difficult jigsaw and how to solve it
using a computer program.
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Latin squares
A Latin square of order n is an array of n symbols in which each symbol occurs exactly once in each row and exactly once in each column.
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An introduction to magic squares
Find out about Magic Squares in this article written for students. Why are they magic?!
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Learning mathematics through games series: 4. from strategy games
Basic strategy games are particularly suitable as starting points
for investigations. Players instinctively try to discover a winning
strategy, and usually the best way to do this is to analyse the
outcomes of series of 'moves'. With a little encouragement from the
teacher, a mathematical investigation is born.