Being resilient

  • Round the Dice Decimals 1
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    Round the Dice Decimals 1

    Age
    7 to 11
    Challenge level
    1 out of 3

    Use two dice to generate two numbers with one decimal place. What happens when you round these numbers to the nearest whole number?

  • Less is More
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    Less Is More

    Age
    7 to 11
    Challenge level
    1 out of 3

    Use your knowledge of place value to try to win this game. How will you maximise your score?

  • Diagonally Square
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    Diagonally Square

    Age
    7 to 11
    Challenge level
    1 out of 3

    Ayah conjectures that the diagonals of a square meet at right angles. Do you agree? How could you find out?

  • Seeing Parallelograms
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    Seeing Parallelograms

    Age
    7 to 11
    Challenge level
    1 out of 3

    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 parallelogram.

  • Digit Discovery
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    Digit Discovery

    Age
    7 to 11
    Challenge level
    1 out of 3

    Here is an interesting property about two sets of digits. Can you work out what the digits might be?

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    Hunting for Averages

    Age
    7 to 11
    Challenge level
    1 out of 3

    Can you find the missing number(s)? The square is the average (mean) of the numbers surrounding it.

  • Price Match
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    Price Match

    Age
    7 to 11
    Challenge level
    2 out of 3

    Can you find pairs of differently sized windows that cost the same?

  • Roll these Dice
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    Roll These Dice

    Age
    7 to 11
    Challenge level
    2 out of 3

    Roll two red dice and a green dice. Add the two numbers on the red dice and take away the number on the green. What are all the different possible answers?

  • Making Boxes
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    Making Boxes

    Age
    7 to 11
    Challenge level
    2 out of 3

    Cut differently-sized square corners from a square piece of paper to make boxes without lids. Do they all have the same volume?

  • Making Cuboids
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    Making Cuboids

    Age
    7 to 11
    Challenge level
    2 out of 3

    Let's say you can only use two different lengths - 2 units and 4 units. Using just these 2 lengths as the edges how many different cuboids can you make?