Being resourceful

Can you find a cuboid that has a surface area of exactly 100 square units. Is there more than one? Can you find them all?

Use a single sheet of A4 paper and make a cylinder having the greatest possible volume. The cylinder must be closed off by a circle at each end.

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...

Imagine you were given the chance to win some money... and imagine you had nothing to lose...

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

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

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 square.

Can you find the values at the vertices when you know the values on the edges?

Can you find the pairs that represent the same amount of money?