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1. For security John plans buy the minimum amount of Diamond Razor Mesh fencing material to fence around his dam and discourage entry. He sent his 15 year old son Mzu to measure the dam.
Mzu tells his Dad that this rectangular shape he has drawn of the dam and fence can help him.
To […]
Use the digits 1 to 6, once only, in the six boxes to make the multiplication correct.
How many ways can this be done?
How can you be sure?
The MULTIPLICATION CHALLENGE Inclusion and Home Learning Guide provides related learning activities on the theme of Logical Thinking for learners of all abilities […]
We have six cards, four Aces and the Jack of hearts and Queen of spades in an envelope or bag. You pick 2 cards at random and tell me “I have an Ace”. What is the probability that you have two aces?
Next suppose I pick 2 of the 6 cards at […]
Make a 3D cube out of rolled paper sticks, tied together at the ends. Push your cube gently down and sideways. It will collapse into a 2D shape. Can you collapse your cube into
a 2D rectangle made of 2 squares?
Can you fold […]
Cut out pieces of paper or card to make counters or use stones or any small objects that are all different.
How many different ways can you arrange 3 coloured counters in a row?
Record each arrangement.
Now try 4 counters.
What about […]
Make 6 paper sticks, all the same length, by tightly rolling a piece of paper around a piece of string and securing it with sticky tape. If you have not made paper sticks before see the video: https://youtu.be/iaJ6EitIGKU
Here are some pictures of 3D shapes made from cubes and drawings of two of the shapes on dotty paper. Can you make these shapes yourself?
The right angled triangles numbered 1, 2, 3 and 4 in the diagrams all have sides of length a, b and c. They are identical (congruent) copies of each other.
Cut 4 congruent right angled triangles from some scrap paper. Arrange them as shown in diagram […]
Look at this square divided into four pieces : two identical triangles and two identical trapezia.
The edge of length 3 from each triangle matches with the edge of length 3 from a trapezium so that the four pieces from the square now occupy a rectangular space.
The square had side length 8 […]
This jigsaw has 7 pieces and 3 solutions with variations of those solutions.
You can download the template here and cut it out or make it on card. Try the puzzle yourself.
Either make a square with 5 pieces or make a square with 6 pieces.
The third challenge is to […]
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