Can You Do it Too?
Age 5 to 7
Challenge Level
Try some throwing activities and see whether you can throw something as far as the Olympic hammer or discus throwers.
Street Sequences
Age 5 to 11
Challenge Level
Investigate what happens when you add house numbers along a street in different ways.
Growing Garlic
Age 5 to 11
Challenge Level
Ben and his mum are planting garlic. Can you find out how many cloves of garlic they might have had?
Circle Panes
Age 7 to 11
Challenge Level
Look at the mathematics that is all around us - this circular window is a wonderful example.
Timber!
Age 7 to 11
Challenge Level
How can the school caretaker be sure that the tree would miss the school buildings if it fell?
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NRICH is part of the family of activities in the Millennium Mathematics Project.
NRICH is part of the family of activities in the Millennium Mathematics Project.