Conjecturing and generalising

  • Charlie's delightful machine
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    Charlie's Delightful Machine

    Age
    11 to 16
    Challenge level
    1 out of 3

    Here is a machine with four coloured lights. Can you develop a strategy to work out the rules controlling each light?

  • Multiple Surprises
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    Multiple Surprises

    Age
    11 to 16
    Challenge level
    1 out of 3

    Sequences of multiples keep cropping up...

  • Parallelogram It
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    Parallelogram It

    Age
    11 to 16
    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.

  • Robotic Rotations
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    Robotic Rotations

    Age
    11 to 16
    Challenge level
    2 out of 3

    How did the the rotation robot make these patterns?

  • 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.

  • Sums of Pairs
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    Sums of Pairs

    Age
    11 to 16
    Challenge level
    2 out of 3

    Jo has three numbers which she adds together in pairs. When she does this she has three different totals: 11, 17 and 22 What are the three numbers Jo had to start with?”

  • More Twisting and Turning
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    More Twisting and Turning

    Age
    11 to 16
    Challenge level
    2 out of 3

    It would be nice to have a strategy for disentangling any tangled ropes...

  • 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?