Mathematics - Research News

Button-up Some More

 Mathematics - Research News
 17 July 2024
How many ways can you find to do up all four buttons on my coat? How about if I had five buttons? Six ...?...

Wipeout

 Mathematics - Research News
 16 July 2024
Can you do a little mathematical detective work to figure out which number has been wiped out?...

Have You Got It?

 Mathematics - Research News
 11 July 2024
Can you explain the strategy for winning this game with any target?...

Interactive Spinners

 Mathematics - Research News
 27 June 2024
This interactivity invites you to make conjectures and explore probabilities of outcomes related to two independent events....

Tangram Tangle

 Mathematics - Research News
 27 June 2024
If you split the square into these two pieces, it is possible to fit the pieces together again to make a new shape. How many new shapes can you make?...

Table Patterns Go Wild!

 Mathematics - Research News
 25 June 2024
Nearly all of us have made table patterns on hundred squares, that is 10 by 10 grids. This problem looks at the patterns on differently sized square grids....

Pick's Theorem

 Mathematics - Research News
 21 June 2024
Polygons drawn on square dotty paper have dots on their perimeter (p) and often internal (i) ones as well. Find a relationship between p, i and the area of the polygons....

Charlie's Delightful Machine

 Mathematics - Research News
 21 June 2024
Here is a machine with four coloured lights. Can you develop a strategy to work out the rules controlling each light?...

M, M and M

 Mathematics - Research News
 18 June 2024
If you are given the mean, median and mode of five positive whole numbers, can you find the numbers?...

Tilted Squares

 Mathematics - Research News
 18 June 2024
It's easy to work out the areas of most squares that we meet, but what if they were tilted?...

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