
How steep is the slope?
On the grid provided, we can draw lines with different gradients. How many different gradients can you find? Can you arrange them in order of steepness?

Charlie's delightful machine
Here is a machine with four coloured lights. Can you develop a strategy to work out the rules controlling each light?

Sociable cards
Move your counters through this snake of cards and see how far you can go. Are you surprised by where you end up?






Gabriel's problem
Gabriel multiplied together some numbers and then erased them. Can you figure out where each number was?


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...

Fence it
If you have only 40 metres of fencing available, what is the maximum area of land you can fence off?

Isosceles triangles
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?

Triangles in circles
Can you find triangles on a 9-point circle? Can you work out their angles?

Flippin' discs
Discs are flipped in the air. You win if all the faces show the same colour. What is the probability of winning?

Can they be equal?
Can you find rectangles where the value of the area is the same as the value of the perimeter?



Changing areas, changing volumes
How can you change the surface area of a cuboid but keep its volume the same? How can you change the volume but keep the surface area the same?

Non-transitive dice
Alison and Charlie are playing a game. Charlie wants to go first so Alison lets him. Was that such a good idea?

Unequal averages
Play around with sets of five numbers and see what you can discover about different types of average...

Rhombus it
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.

Where can we visit?
Charlie and Abi put a counter on 42. They wondered if they could visit all the other numbers on their 1-100 board, moving the counter using just these two operations: x2 and -5. What do you think?


Peaches today, peaches tomorrow...
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?

Stars
Can you work out what step size to take to ensure you visit all the dots on the circle?

Right angles
Can you make a right-angled triangle on this peg-board by joining up three points round the edge?

Shapely pairs
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...

Weights
Different combinations of the weights available allow you to make different totals. Which totals can you make?


Power mad!
Powers of numbers behave in surprising ways. Take a look at some of these and try to explain why they are true.

Consecutive negative numbers
Do you notice anything about the solutions when you add and/or subtract consecutive negative numbers?