Working systematically
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Add or subtract the two numbers on the spinners and try to complete a row of three. Are there some numbers that are good to aim for?
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Oh! harry!
A group of children are using measuring cylinders but they lose the labels. Can you help relabel them?
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M, m and m
If you are given the mean, median and mode of five positive whole numbers, can you find the numbers?
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Sticky numbers
Can you arrange the numbers 1 to 17 in a row so that each adjacent pair adds up to a square number?
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Which solids can we make?
Interior angles can help us to work out which polygons will tessellate. Can we use similar ideas to predict which polygons combine to create semi-regular solids?
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American 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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Egyptian rope
The ancient Egyptians were said to make right-angled triangles using a rope with twelve equal sections divided by knots. What other triangles could you make if you had a rope like this?
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Amy's dominoes
Amy has a box containing domino pieces but she does not think it is a complete set. Which of her domino pieces are missing?
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Fractions in a box
The discs for this game are kept in a flat square box with a square hole for each. Use the information to find out how many discs of each colour there are in the box.
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Got it
A game for two people, or play online. Given a target number, say 23, and a range of numbers to choose from, say 1-4, players take it in turns to add to the running total to hit their target.