Being resourceful

  • Fraction Lengths
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    Fraction Lengths

    Age
    7 to 11
    Challenge level
    2 out of 3

    Can you find combinations of strips of paper which equal the length of the black strip? If the length of the black is 1, how could you write the sum of the strips?

  • 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?

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    Round and Round the Circle

    Age
    7 to 11
    Challenge level
    2 out of 3

    What happens if you join every second point on this circle? How about every third point? Try with different steps and see if you can predict what will happen.

  • 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?

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    Wonky Watches

    Age
    7 to 11
    Challenge level
    2 out of 3

    Mandeep's watch loses two minutes every hour. Adam's watch gains one minute every hour. Can you work out what time they arrived at the airport?

  • Make 100
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    Make 100

    Age
    7 to 11
    Challenge level
    2 out of 3

    Find at least one way to put in some operation signs to make these digits come to 100.

  • Forgot the Numbers
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    Forgot the Numbers

    Age
    7 to 11
    Challenge level
    2 out of 3

    On my calculator I divided one whole number by another whole number and got the answer 3.125. If the numbers are both under 50, what are they?

  • Amy's Dominoes
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    Amy's Dominoes

    Age
    7 to 11
    Challenge level
    2 out of 3

    Amy has a box containing domino pieces but she does not think it is a complete set. Which of her domino pieces are missing?

  • Twenty Divided into Six
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    Twenty Divided Into Six

    Age
    7 to 11
    Challenge level
    2 out of 3

    Katie had a pack of 20 cards numbered from 1 to 20. She arranged the cards into 6 unequal piles where each pile added to the same total. What was the total and how could this be done?