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  ### Gutter
  
  ##### Stage: 4 Challenge Level:
  
  Manufacturers need to minimise the amount of material used to make their product. What is the best cross-section for a gutter?
  
  ### The Pillar of Chios
  
  ##### Stage: 3 Challenge Level:
  
  Semicircles are drawn on the sides of a rectangle ABCD. A circle passing through points ABCD carves out four crescent-shaped regions. Prove that the sum of the areas of the four crescents is equal to. . . .
  
  ### Pick's Theorem
  
  ##### Stage: 3 Challenge Level:
  
  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.
  
  ### Hallway Borders
  
  ##### Stage: 3 Challenge Level:
  
  A hallway floor is tiled and each tile is one foot square. Given that the number of tiles around the perimeter is EXACTLY half the total number of tiles, find the possible dimensions of the hallway.
  
  ### Semi-square
  
  ##### Stage: 4 Challenge Level:
  
  What is the ratio of the area of a square inscribed in a semicircle to the area of the square inscribed in the entire circle?
  
  ### Snookered
  
  ##### Stage: 4 and 5 Challenge Level:
  
  In a snooker game the brown ball was on the lip of the pocket but it could not be hit directly as the black ball was in the way. How could it be potted by playing the white ball off a cushion?
  
  ### Reasonable Algebra
  
  ##### Stage: 4 Challenge Level:
  
  Use algebra to reason why 16 and 32 are impossible to create as the sum of consecutive numbers.
  
  ### Three Four Five
  
  ##### Stage: 4 Challenge Level:
  
  Two semi-circles (each of radius 1/2) touch each other, and a semi-circle of radius 1 touches both of them. Find the radius of the circle which touches all three semi-circles.
  
  ### How Big?
  
  ##### Stage: 3 Challenge Level:
  
  If the sides of the triangle in the diagram are 3, 4 and 5, what is the area of the shaded square?
  
  ### Square Pizza
  
  ##### Stage: 4 Challenge Level:
  
  Can you show that you can share a square pizza equally between two people by cutting it four times using vertical, horizontal and diagonal cuts through any point inside the square?
  
  ### Always the Same
  
  ##### Stage: 3 Challenge Level:
  
  Arrange the numbers 1 to 16 into a 4 by 4 array. Choose a number. Cross out the numbers on the same row and column. Repeat this process. Add up you four numbers. Why do they always add up to 34?
  
  ### Areas of Parallelograms
  
  ##### Stage: 4 Challenge Level:
  
  Can you find the area of a parallelogram defined by two vectors?
  
  ### Balance Point
  
  ##### Stage: 4 Challenge Level:
  
  Attach weights of 1, 2, 4, and 8 units to the four attachment points on the bar. Move the bar from side to side until you find a balance point. Is it possible to predict that position?
  
  ### Pythagoras Proofs
  
  ##### Stage: 4 Challenge Level:
  
  Can you make sense of these three proofs of Pythagoras' Theorem?
  
  ### Hike and Hitch
  
  ##### Stage: 4 Challenge Level:
  
  Fifteen students had to travel 60 miles. They could use a car, which could only carry 5 students. As the car left with the first 5 (at 40 miles per hour), the remaining 10 commenced hiking along the. . . .
  
  ### How Do You React?
  
  ##### Stage: 4 Challenge Level:
  
  To investigate the relationship between the distance the ruler drops and the time taken, we need to do some mathematical modelling...
  
  ### Generating Triples
  
  ##### Stage: 4 Challenge Level:
  
  Sets of integers like 3, 4, 5 are called Pythagorean Triples, because they could be the lengths of the sides of a right-angled triangle. Can you find any more?
  
  ### Pareq Calc
  
  ##### Stage: 4 Challenge Level:
  
  Triangle ABC is an equilateral triangle with three parallel lines going through the vertices. Calculate the length of the sides of the triangle if the perpendicular distances between the parallel. . . .
  
  ### Terminology
  
  ##### Stage: 4 Challenge Level:
  
  Given an equilateral triangle inside an isosceles triangle, can you find a relationship between the angles?
  
  ### Number Pyramids
  
  ##### Stage: 3 Challenge Level:
  
  Try entering different sets of numbers in the number pyramids. How does the total at the top change?
  
  ### More Number Pyramids
  
  ##### Stage: 3 Challenge Level:
  
  When number pyramids have a sequence on the bottom layer, some interesting patterns emerge...
  
  ### Chocolate Maths
  
  ##### Stage: 3 Challenge Level:
  
  Pick the number of times a week that you eat chocolate. This number must be more than one but less than ten. Multiply this number by 2. Add 5 (for Sunday). Multiply by 50... Can you explain why it. . . .
  
  ### Hand Swap
  
  ##### Stage: 4 Challenge Level:
  
  My train left London between 6 a.m. and 7 a.m. and arrived in Paris between 9 a.m. and 10 a.m. At the start and end of the journey the hands on my watch were in exactly the same positions but the. . . .
  
  ### Perfectly Square
  
  ##### Stage: 4 Challenge Level:
  
  The sums of the squares of three related numbers is also a perfect square - can you explain why?
  
  ### One and Three
  
  ##### Stage: 4 Challenge Level:
  
  Two motorboats travelling up and down a lake at constant speeds leave opposite ends A and B at the same instant, passing each other, for the first time 600 metres from A, and on their return, 400. . . .
  
  ### Lower Bound
  
  ##### Stage: 3 Challenge Level:
  
  What would you get if you continued this sequence of fraction sums? 1/2 + 2/1 = 2/3 + 3/2 = 3/4 + 4/3 =
  
  ### Unit Interval
  
  ##### Stage: 4 and 5 Challenge Level:
  
  Take any two numbers between 0 and 1. Prove that the sum of the numbers is always less than one plus their product?
  
  ### Special Sums and Products
  
  ##### Stage: 3 Challenge Level:
  
  Find some examples of pairs of numbers such that their sum is a factor of their product. eg. 4 + 12 = 16 and 4 × 12 = 48 and 16 is a factor of 48.
  
  ### Pair Products
  
  ##### Stage: 4 Challenge Level:
  
  Choose four consecutive whole numbers. Multiply the first and last numbers together. Multiply the middle pair together. What do you notice?
  
  ### Triangles Within Pentagons
  
  ##### Stage: 4 Challenge Level:
  
  Show that all pentagonal numbers are one third of a triangular number.
  
  ### Christmas Chocolates
  
  ##### Stage: 3 Challenge Level:
  
  How could Penny, Tom and Matthew work out how many chocolates there are in different sized boxes?
  
  ### How Much Can We Spend?
  
  ##### Stage: 3 Challenge Level:
  
  A country has decided to have just two different coins, 3z and 5z coins. Which totals can be made? Is there a largest total that cannot be made? How do you know?
  
  ### Crossed Ends
  
  ##### Stage: 3 Challenge Level:
  
  Crosses can be drawn on number grids of various sizes. What do you notice when you add opposite ends?
  
  ### Partly Painted Cube
  
  ##### Stage: 4 Challenge Level:
  
  Jo made a cube from some smaller cubes, painted some of the faces of the large cube, and then took it apart again. 45 small cubes had no paint on them at all. How many small cubes did Jo use?
  
  ### Steel Cables
  
  ##### Stage: 4 Challenge Level:
  
  Some students have been working out the number of strands needed for different sizes of cable. Can you make sense of their solutions?
  
  ### Marbles in a Box
  
  ##### Stage: 3 Challenge Level:
  
  How many winning lines can you make in a three-dimensional version of noughts and crosses?
  
  ### Always a Multiple?
  
  ##### Stage: 3 Challenge Level:
  
  Think of a two digit number, reverse the digits, and add the numbers together. Something special happens...
  
  ### Seven Squares
  
  ##### Stage: 3 Challenge Level:
  
  Watch these videos to see how Phoebe, Alice and Luke chose to draw 7 squares. How would they draw 100?
  
  ### Painted Cube
  
  ##### Stage: 3 Challenge Level:
  
  Imagine a large cube made from small red cubes being dropped into a pot of yellow paint. How many of the small cubes will have yellow paint on their faces?
  
  ### Magic Sums and Products
  
  ##### Stage: 3 and 4
  
  How to build your own magic squares.
  
  ### Triangles Within Triangles
  
  ##### Stage: 4 Challenge Level:
  
  Can you find a rule which connects consecutive triangular numbers?
  
  ### ' Tis Whole
  
  ##### Stage: 4 and 5 Challenge Level:
  
  Take a few whole numbers away from a triangle number. If you know the mean of the remaining numbers can you find the triangle number and which numbers were removed?
  
  ##### Stage: 3 Challenge Level:
  
  Think of a number and follow my instructions. Tell me your answer, and I'll tell you what you started with! Can you explain how I know?
  
  ### AMGM
  
  ##### Stage: 4 Challenge Level:
  
  Can you use the diagram to prove the AM-GM inequality?
  
  ### Screen Shot
  
  ##### Stage: 4 Challenge Level:
  
  A moveable screen slides along a mirrored corridor towards a centrally placed light source. A ray of light from that source is directed towards a wall of the corridor, which it strikes at 45 degrees. . . .
  
  ### Interactive Number Patterns
  
  ##### Stage: 4 Challenge Level:
  
  How good are you at finding the formula for a number pattern ?
  
  ### Cubes Within Cubes Revisited
  
  ##### Stage: 3 Challenge Level:
  
  Imagine starting with one yellow cube and covering it all over with a single layer of red cubes, and then covering that cube with a layer of blue cubes. How many red and blue cubes would you need?
  
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  Think of a number... follow the machine's instructions. I know what your number is! Can you explain how I know?
  
  ### Attractive Tablecloths
  
  ##### Stage: 4 Challenge Level:
  
  Charlie likes tablecloths that use as many colours as possible, but insists that his tablecloths have some symmetry. Can you work out how many colours he needs for different tablecloth designs?
  
  ### Quick Times
  
  ##### Stage: 3 Challenge Level:
  
  32 x 38 = 30 x 40 + 2 x 8; 34 x 36 = 30 x 40 + 4 x 6; 56 x 54 = 50 x 60 + 6 x 4; 73 x 77 = 70 x 80 + 3 x 7 Verify and generalise if possible.
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