These hands-on activities are ideal for students aged 11-14 to use in maths clubs and whole-school maths events.
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Using the 8 dominoes, can you make a square where each of the columns and rows adds up to 8?
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How many solutions can you find to this sum? Each of the different letters stands for a different number.
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The letters in the following addition sum represent the digits 1 ... 9. If A=3 and D=2, what number is represented by "CAYLEY"?
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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...
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How many moves does it take to swap over some red and blue frogs? Do you have a method?
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In how many ways can you fit all three pieces together to make shapes with line symmetry?
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A cinema has 100 seats. How can ticket sales make £100 for these different combinations of ticket prices?
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How many different symmetrical shapes can you make by shading triangles or squares?
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My two digit number is special because adding the sum of its digits to the product of its digits gives me my original number. What could my number be?
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Can you arrange these numbers into 7 subsets, each of three numbers, so that when the numbers in each are added together, they make seven consecutive numbers?
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Are these games fair? How can you tell?
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Find the frequency distribution for ordinary English, and use it to help you crack the code.
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A jigsaw where pieces only go together if the fractions are equivalent.
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Can you picture how to order the cards to reproduce Charlie's card trick for yourself?
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Can you find rectangles where the value of the area is the same as the value of the perimeter?
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Each clue in this Sudoku is the product of the two numbers in adjacent cells.
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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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Move your counters through this snake of cards and see how far you can go. Are you surprised by where you end up?
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Imagine we have four bags containing a large number of 1s, 4s, 7s and 10s. What numbers can we make?
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Can you deduce which Olympic athletics events are represented by the graphs?
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Alison, Bernard and Charlie have been exploring sequences of odd and even numbers, which raise some intriguing questions...
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Charlie has made a Magic V. Can you use his example to make some more? And how about Magic Ls, Ns and Ws?
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These Olympic quantities have been jumbled up! Can you put them back together again?
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Can you crack these cryptarithms?
