Being curious

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    Marbles in a Box

    Age
    11 to 16
    Challenge level
    2 out of 3

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

  • Take Three From Five
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    Take Three From Five

    Age
    11 to 16
    Challenge level
    2 out of 3

    Caroline and James pick sets of five numbers. Charlie tries to find three that add together to make a multiple of three. Can they stop him?

  • Tourism
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    Tourism

    Age
    11 to 16
    Challenge level
    2 out of 3

    If you can copy a network without lifting your pen off the paper and without drawing any line twice, then it is traversable. Decide which of these diagrams are traversable.

  • Searching for mean(ing)
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    Searching for Mean(ing)

    Age
    11 to 16
    Challenge level
    2 out of 3

    If you have a large supply of 3kg and 8kg weights, how many of each would you need for the average (mean) of the weights to be 6kg?

  • Cuboid challenge
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    Cuboid Challenge

    Age
    11 to 16
    Challenge level
    2 out of 3

    What's the largest volume of box you can make from a square of paper?

  • Wipeout
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    Wipeout

    Age
    11 to 16
    Challenge level
    2 out of 3

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

  • How old am I?
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    How Old Am I?

    Age
    14 to 16
    Challenge level
    1 out of 3

    In 15 years' time my age will be the square of my age 15 years ago. Can you work out my age, and when I had other special birthdays?

  • Pair Products
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    Pair Products

    Age
    14 to 16
    Challenge level
    1 out of 3

    Choose four consecutive whole numbers. Multiply the first and last numbers together. Multiply the middle pair together. What do you notice?

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    Salinon

    Age
    14 to 16
    Challenge level
    1 out of 3

    This shape comprises four semi-circles. What is the relationship between the area of the shaded region and the area of the circle on AB as diameter?

  • Spotting the loophole
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    Spotting the Loophole

    Age
    14 to 16
    Challenge level
    1 out of 3

    A visualisation problem in which you search for vectors which sum to zero from a jumble of arrows. Will your eyes be quicker than algebra?