Author: Jason
Rolling Cube Challenge
Challenge On Boarding – How to Roll a Cube Note: This is not like rolling a dice. You kind of have to imagine a cube trying to roll like a ball. Or even better watch…
Folding Symmetry
This week’s challenge invites you to look for seed shapes in bigger shapes. Imagine a small shape with no reflectional symmetry, duplicating itself with its mirror image and producing a new shape. Imagine that this…
Open number lines
You are likely to be familiar with number lines that have evenly spaced numbers already printed on them. They are one of the most powerful representations in arithmetic. They can be made to show negative…
Knight’s Move Challenge
Knight’s Move challenges are quite popular. They can involve one more more knights and varying spaces that the knight has to traverse. Our challenge is a simple Knight’s tour, where the knight should land on…
Diffy
This is quite a popular puzzle or investigation amongst maths teachers. The reason for this is that it is a great example of a High Ceiling Low Threshold (HCLT) task. You only need to be…