Year 9 Working systematically

  • A cardboard carton of cherries.
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    Fruity Totals

    Age
    7 to 16
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    In this interactivity each fruit has a hidden value. Can you deduce what each one is worth?

  • Days and Dates
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    Days and Dates

    Age
    11 to 14
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    Investigate how you can work out what day of the week your birthday will be on next year, and the year after...

  • Some old-fashioned cinema tickets.
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    Cinema Problem

    Age
    11 to 14
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    A cinema has 100 seats. How can ticket sales make £100 for these different combinations of ticket prices?

  • Tilted Squares
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    Tilted Squares

    Age
    11 to 14
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    It's easy to work out the areas of most squares that we meet, but what if they were tilted?

  • How far does it move?
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    How Far Does It Move?

    Age
    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 the distance it travels at each stage.

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    In the Bag

    Age
    11 to 14
    Challenge level
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    Can you guess the colours of the 10 marbles in the bag? Can you develop an effective strategy for reaching 1000 points in the least number of rounds?

  • Elevenses
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    Elevenses

    Age
    11 to 14
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    How many pairs of numbers can you find that add up to a multiple of 11? Do you notice anything interesting about your results?

  • At least one...
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    At Least One...

    Age
    11 to 14
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    Imagine flipping a coin a number of times. Can you work out the probability you will get a head on at least one of the flips?

  • Growing Surprises
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    Growing Surprises

    Age
    11 to 14
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    Can you find the connections between linear and quadratic patterns?

  • Counting Factors
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    Counting Factors

    Age
    11 to 14
    Challenge level
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    Is there an efficient way to work out how many factors a large number has?

  • 1 Step 2 Step
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    1 Step 2 Step

    Age
    11 to 14
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    Liam's house has a staircase with 12 steps. He can go down the steps one at a time or two at time. In how many different ways can Liam go down the 12 steps?

  • Sending a Parcel
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    Sending a Parcel

    Age
    11 to 14
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    What is the greatest volume you can get for a rectangular (cuboid) parcel if the maximum combined length and girth are 2 metres?

  • Two's company
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    Two's Company

    Age
    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

    Age
    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

    Age
    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.

  • 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?

  • Overlaps
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    Overlaps

    Age
    11 to 14
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    Can you find ways to put numbers in the overlaps so the rings have equal totals?

  • 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?

  • Triangles to Tetrahedra
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    Triangles to Tetrahedra

    Age
    11 to 14
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    Imagine you have an unlimited number of four types of triangle. How many different tetrahedra can you make?

  • How Many Miles To Go?
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    How Many Miles to Go?

    Age
    11 to 14
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    How many more miles must the car travel before the numbers on the milometer and the trip meter contain the same digits in the same order?

  • Cuboids
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    Cuboids

    Age
    11 to 14
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    Can you find a cuboid that has a surface area of exactly 100 square units. Is there more than one? Can you find them all?

  • Efficient cutting
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    Efficient Cutting

    Age
    11 to 14
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    Use a single sheet of A4 paper and make a cylinder having the greatest possible volume. The cylinder must be closed off by a circle at each end.

  • Up and across
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    Up and Across

    Age
    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 vertical and horizontal movement at each stage.

  • Cola can
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    Cola Can

    Age
    11 to 14
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    An aluminium can contains 330 ml of cola. If the can's diameter is 6 cm what is the can's height?

  • Which solids can we make?
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    Which Solids Can We Make?

    Age
    11 to 14
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    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?

  • What's it worth?
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    What's It Worth?

    Age
    11 to 16
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    There are lots of different methods to find out what the shapes are worth - how many can you find?

  • Semi-regular Tessellations
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    Semi-Regular Tessellations

    Age
    11 to 16
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    Semi-regular tessellations combine two or more different regular polygons to fill the plane. Can you find all the semi-regular tessellations?

  • Funny Factorisation
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    Funny Factorisation

    Age
    11 to 16
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    Using the digits 1 to 9, the number 4396 can be written as the product of two numbers. Can you find the factors?

  • Product Sudoku
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    Product Sudoku

    Age
    11 to 16
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    The clues for this Sudoku are the product of the numbers in adjacent squares.

  • Wipeout
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    Wipeout

    Age
    11 to 16
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    Can you do a little mathematical detective work to figure out which number has been wiped out?