Year 9 Being curious

In this interactivity each fruit has a hidden value. Can you deduce what each one is worth?

How much can you read into a T-shirt?

Investigate how you can work out what day of the week your birthday will be on next year, and the year after...

Identical squares of side one unit contain some circles shaded blue. In which of the four examples is the shaded area greatest?

Which set of numbers that add to 100 have the largest product?

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?

It's easy to work out the areas of most squares that we meet, but what if they were tilted?

Experiment with the interactivity of "rolling" regular polygons, and explore how the different positions of the dot affects the distance it travels at each stage.

How many pairs of numbers can you find that add up to a multiple of 11? Do you notice anything interesting about your results?

Take any four digit number. Move the first digit to the end and move the rest along. Now add your two numbers. Did you get a multiple of 11?

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?

Think of two whole numbers under 10, and follow the steps. I can work out both your numbers very quickly. How?

What is the greatest volume you can get for a rectangular (cuboid) parcel if the maximum combined length and girth are 2 metres?

A tilted square is a square with no horizontal sides. Can you devise a general instruction for the construction of a square when you are given just one of its sides?

Seven balls are shaken. You win if the two blue balls end up touching. What is the probability of winning?

Six balls are shaken. You win if at least one red ball ends in a corner. What is the probability of winning?

Experiment with the interactivity of "rolling" regular polygons, and explore how the different positions of the dot affects its speed at each stage.

Take a look at the video and try to find a sequence of moves that will untangle the ropes.

Can you recreate squares and rhombuses if you are only given a side or a diagonal?

Imagine we have four bags containing numbers from a sequence. What numbers can we make now?

Where should you start, if you want to finish back where you started?

How many more miles must the car travel before the numbers on the milometer and the trip meter contain the same digits in the same order?

Experiment with the interactivity of "rolling" regular polygons, and explore how the different positions of the dot affects its vertical and horizontal movement at each stage.

Start with two numbers and generate a sequence where the next number is the mean of the last two numbers...

An aluminium can contains 330 ml of cola. If the can's diameter is 6 cm what is the can's height?

Interior angles can help us to work out which polygons will tessellate. Can we use similar ideas to predict which polygons combine to create semi-regular solids?

There are lots of different methods to find out what the shapes are worth - how many can you find?

Semi-regular tessellations combine two or more different regular polygons to fill the plane. Can you find all the semi-regular tessellations?

How many winning lines can you make in a three-dimensional version of noughts and crosses?

Can you do a little mathematical detective work to figure out which number has been wiped out?