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Year 8 Being Collaborative

Sociable Cards
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Sociable Cards

Age
11 to 14
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Move your counters through this snake of cards and see how far you can go. Are you surprised by where you end up?
American Billions
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American Billions

Age
11 to 14
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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...
Olympic Records
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Olympic Records

Age
11 to 14
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Can you deduce which Olympic athletics events are represented by the graphs?
Place your orders
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Place your orders

Age
11 to 14
Challenge level
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Can you rank these sets of quantities in order, from smallest to largest? Can you provide convincing evidence for your rankings?
Constructing Triangles
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Constructing Triangles

Age
11 to 14
Challenge level
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Generate three random numbers to determine the side lengths of a triangle. What triangles can you draw?
Fence it
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Fence it

Age
11 to 14
Challenge level
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If you have only 40 metres of fencing available, what is the maximum area of land you can fence off?
Olympic Measures
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Olympic Measures

Age
11 to 14
Challenge level
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These Olympic quantities have been jumbled up! Can you put them back together again?
Isosceles Triangles
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Isosceles Triangles

Age
11 to 14
Challenge level
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Draw some isosceles triangles with an area of $9$cm$^2$ and a vertex at (20,20). If all the vertices must have whole number coordinates, how many is it possible to draw?
Reaction timer
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Reaction timer

Age
11 to 14
Challenge level
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This problem offers you two ways to test reactions - use them to investigate your ideas about speeds of reaction.
Keep it simple
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Keep it simple

Age
11 to 14
Challenge level
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Can all unit fractions be written as the sum of two unit fractions?
How would you score it?
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How would you score it?

Age
11 to 14
Challenge level
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Invent a scoring system for a 'guess the weight' competition.
Transformation Game
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Transformation Game

Why not challenge a friend to play this transformation game?
Who's the best?
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Who's the best?

Age
11 to 14
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Which countries have the most naturally athletic populations?
Coordinate Patterns
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Coordinate Patterns

Age
11 to 14
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Charlie and Alison have been drawing patterns on coordinate grids. Can you picture where the patterns lead?
Peaches today, Peaches tomorrow...
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Peaches today, Peaches tomorrow...

Age
11 to 14
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A monkey with peaches, keeps a fraction of them each day, gives the rest away, and then eats one. How long can his peaches last?
Rhombus It
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Rhombus It

Age
11 to 16
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Players take it in turns to choose a dot on the grid. The winner is the first to have four dots that can be joined to form a rhombus.

Shapely pairs
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Shapely pairs

Age
11 to 14
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A game in which players take it in turns to turn up two cards. If they can draw a triangle which satisfies both properties they win the pair of cards. And a few challenging questions to follow...

Property chart
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Property chart

Age
11 to 14
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A game in which players take it in turns to try to draw quadrilaterals (or triangles) with particular properties. Is it possible to fill the game grid?

Route to infinity
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Route to infinity

Age
11 to 14
Challenge level
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Can you describe this route to infinity? Where will the arrows take you next?
Method in multiplying madness?
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Method in multiplying madness?

Age
7 to 14
Challenge level
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Watch our videos of multiplication methods that you may not have met before. Can you make sense of them?
All in a jumble
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All in a jumble

Age
11 to 14
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My measurements have got all jumbled up! Swap them around and see if you can find a combination where every measurement is valid.
Power mad!
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Power mad!

Age
11 to 14
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Powers of numbers behave in surprising ways. Take a look at some of these and try to explain why they are true.