Visualising and representing

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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?

  • Triangle in a Trapezium
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    Triangle in a Trapezium

    Age
    11 to 16
    Challenge level
    2 out of 3

    Can you find and prove the relationship between the area of a trapezium and the area of a triangle constructed within it?

  • Pythagoras Proofs
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    Pythagoras Proofs

    Age
    11 to 16
    Challenge level
    2 out of 3

    Can you make sense of these three proofs of Pythagoras' Theorem?

  • Nine Colours
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    Nine Colours

    Age
    11 to 16
    Challenge level
    3 out of 3

    Can you use small coloured cubes to make a 3 by 3 by 3 cube so that each face of the bigger cube contains one of each colour?

  • Ben's Game
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    Ben's Game

    Age
    11 to 16
    Challenge level
    3 out of 3

    Ben, Jack and Emma passed counters to each other and ended with the same number of counters. How many did they start with?