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Year 6 Explaining, convincing and proving

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Rectangle tangle

Age
7 to 11
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The large rectangle is divided into a series of smaller quadrilaterals and triangles. Can you untangle what fractional part is represented by each of the shapes?

Would You Rather?
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Would you rather?

Age
7 to 11
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Would you rather: Have 10% of £5 or 75% of 80p? Be given 60% of 2 pizzas or 26% of 5 pizzas?

Diagonally Square
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Diagonally square

Age
7 to 11
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Ayah conjectures that the diagonals of a square meet at right angles. Do you agree? How could you find out?

Treasure Hunt
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Treasure hunt

Age
7 to 14
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Can you find a reliable strategy for choosing coordinates that will locate the treasure in the minimum number of guesses?

Round a hexagon
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Round a hexagon

Age
7 to 11
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This problem shows that the external angles of an irregular hexagon add to a circle.

Four playing cards on top of each other. Each card shows a different ace.
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Statement snap

Age
7 to 14
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You'll need to know your number properties to win a game of Statement Snap...

Name That Triangle!
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Name that triangle!

Age
7 to 11
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Can you sketch triangles that fit in the cells in this grid? Which ones are impossible? How do you know?

4 by 4 Mathdokus
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4 by 4 Mathdokus

Age
7 to 14
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Can you use the clues to complete these 4 by 4 Mathematical Sudokus?

Diagonal Sums
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Diagonal sums

Age
7 to 14
Challenge level
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In this 100 square, look at the green square which contains the numbers 2, 3, 12 and 13. What is the sum of the numbers that are diagonally opposite each other? What do you notice?

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Doughnut percents

Age
7 to 14
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Can you make doughnuts by matching these fractions, decimals and percentages?

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Three neighbours

Age
7 to 14
Challenge level
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Take three consecutive numbers and add them together. What do you notice?

Number Lines in Disguise
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Number lines in disguise

Age
7 to 14
Challenge level
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Some of the numbers have fallen off Becky's number line. Can you figure out what they were?