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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By selecting digits for an addition grid, what targets can you make?
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What happens when you add a three digit number to its reverse?
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A colourful cube is made from little red and yellow cubes. But can you work out how many of each?
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How many questions do you need to identify my quadrilateral?
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We started drawing some quadrilaterals - can you complete them?
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Gabriel multiplied together some numbers and then erased them. Can you figure out where each number was?
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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: ×2 and -5. What do you think?
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Using some or all of the operations of addition, subtraction, multiplication and division and using the digits 3, 3, 8 and 8 each once and only once make an expression equal to 24.
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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?
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Show how this pentagonal tile can be used to tile the plane and describe the transformations which map this pentagon to its images in the tiling.
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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?
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A 2 by 3 rectangle contains 8 squares and a 3 by 4 rectangle contains 20 squares. What sizes of rectangle contain exactly 100 squares? Can you find them all?
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Using your knowledge of the properties of numbers, can you fill all the squares on the board?
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Can you describe this route to infinity? Where will the arrows take you next?
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Is there a temperature at which Celsius and Fahrenheit readings are the same?
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In the ancient city of Atlantis a solid rectangular object called a Zin was built in honour of the goddess Tina. Your task is to determine on which day of the week the obelisk was completed.
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The Tower of Hanoi is an ancient mathematical challenge. Working on the building blocks may help you to explain the patterns you notice.
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Think of a two digit number, reverse the digits, and add the numbers together. Something special happens...
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Can you recreate squares and rhombuses if you are only given a side or a diagonal?
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Can you find ways to put numbers in the overlaps so the rings have equal totals?
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Play around with the Fibonacci sequence and discover some surprising results!
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Play around with sets of five numbers and see what you can discover about different types of average...
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Can you mentally fit the 7 SOMA pieces together to make a cube? Can you do it in more than one way?
