Add up a sequence of consecutive numbers. Can you find a quick way to do it?
Can you write an ex
How many different shapes with an area of 2 square units can you make by joining dots on this grid with straight lines?
Use only the 1, 5 and 0 keys on a calculator to make given totals.
By how much would the area of this triangle increase if its base was enlarged to 8cm?
Work out the contents and the cost of the Christmas boxes from the given clues.
A game in which players take turns to add a single-digit number to what is already in the calculator. The winner is the player who makes the display show 30.
Calculate the total cost of four cars from the information given.
Work out the number of chin ups the characters do on the last day of the week give information about averages.
Work out the total cost of five Christmas presents from the information given.
Can you use the digits on the left of this clock along with any mathematical operations to equal the digits on the right?
A puzzle about the number of coins on a table given information about fractions of them.
Three consecutive numbers multiplied together give a given product. Pupils are asked to figure out what the numbers are.
Which three consecutive numbers multiplied together give the given answer.
How did the clock break if the numbers on each of the pieces added up to the same total?
What numbers should be on each face of the two cubes to make this perpetual calendar?
Determine whether the given nets would fold to produce a dice.
Arrange the digits 1 to 6 to make a three digit number divided by a two digit number giving a one digit answer.
Fit families onto eleven seater buses without splitting up the families.
Find out which of the calculator keys is faulty from the given information. A mathematical puzzle requiring good problem solving strategies.
Add up the answers to the four real life questions.
An activity involving a broken calculator which is missing the four button. Can you evaluate the given expressions without using the four?
Which of the numbers from one to twenty can you make with the digits 4, 5, 6 and 7?
A clock face containing only the number 4. Can you make a clock face containing any other single number?
Figure out which numbers will complete the sentences in the frame correctly.
Find symmetric words in this ancient cipher.
The height of this giraffe is three and a half metres plus half of its height. How tall is the giraffe?
If all the students in this room shook hands with each other, how many handshakes would there be altogether?
A little lateral thinking will help you solve this number puzzle.
How many Triangles can you find in the diagram?
How many triangles are hidden in the pattern? What strategy might you use to count them all to ensure you don't miss any out?
Find a systematic way of counting the number of triangles in the given diagram.
Find a word whose letters would cost exactly ninety nine pence.
Find the weight of one cuboid (by division) of each colour then add your answers together.
Work out what the calculations might be from the letter clues.
A lamp and a bulb together cost 32 pounds. The lamp costs 30 pounds more than the bulb. How much does the bulb cost?
A classic matchstick puzzle designed to challenge your spacial awareness.
Find which digits are missing from the randomly generated calculations.
A puzzle about a restaurant bill. Exactly where did the missing pound go?
Arrange the digits one to nine to make a correct addition calculation.
Arrange the numbers 1-9 to make three 3 digit numbers that add up to 999.
This activity requires eight students to sit non consecutively on a grid of chairs.
How many ways can you write an expression for 100 which only uses the same digit repeated and any operations?
Work out the least amount of time for four people to walk through a tunnel?
Two questions involving estimating a quantity.
Five numbers are added together in pairs and the sums shown. What might the five numbers be?
Arrange numbers on the plane shaped grid to produce the given totals
If six girls can plant 90 trees in a day. How many trees can ten girls plant in a day? The unitary method.
Arrange the numbers to produce the largest product.
Arrange numbers at the bottom of the pyramid which will give the largest total at the top.
There are some rabbits and chickens in a field. Calculate how many of each given the number of heads and feet.
Use the weights of the trains to work out the weight of a locomotive and a coach. A real situation which produces simultaneous equations.
Find a calculation for the current year which uses all of the digits 1 to 9.
Go around the roundabout performing each of the operations. Which starting point gives the largest answer?
Can you draw 4 straight lines, without taking your pencil off the paper, which pass through all 9 roses?
Work out the number of clowns and horses given the number of heads and feet.
A question which can be best answered by using algebra.
Make sums from the three digit numbers given.
Allow two trains to pass by using the limited amount of siding space.
Can you work out what each of the strange symbols represents in these calculations?
The classic game of Nim played with a group of pens and pencils. The game can be extended to the multi-pile version.
A problem which can best be solved as a pair of simultaneous equations.
An activity involving a calculator which is missing the six button. Can you evaluate the given expressions without using the six?
Arrange the digits one to nine in the grid so that they obey the row and column headings.
How many different ways can you spell out the word snowman by moving from snowflake to snowflake.
Arrange the numbers on the grid of squares so that the totals along each line of three squares are equal.
Arrange the numbers on the cards so that each of the three digit numbers formed horizontally are square numbers and each of the three digit numbers formed vertically are even.
Arrange the numbered trees so that adjacent sums are square numbers.
Separate three rows of three animals using three squares.
Use the information implied in the diagram to calculate the perimeter of this shape.
Which of the coloured stencils will fit over the numbered card to produce correct calculations?
Is it possible to work out the perimeter of this shape if not all the side lengths are given?
Interactive number-based logic puzzle similar to those featuring in The Times and Telegraph newspapers.
What are the numbers if their sum equals their product?
Each traffic sign stands for a number. Some of the sums of rows and columns are shown. What numbers might the signs stand for?
Arrange the numbers one to eight into the calculations to make the totals correct..
Work out who is in which team from the information given.
How can you put the dice into the tins so that there is an odd number of dice in each tin?
In how many different ways might Tran decide to wear his hats in one week?
A tricky problem set on a coordinate grid.
Arrange the numbers 1 to 9 in a 3 by 3 grid so that none of the line totals are the same.
Each letter stands for a different digit. Can you make sense of this word sum?
Advanced Problem Solving Starters
Questions on the areas and perimeters of rectangles which will test your problem solving abilities.
Use your knowledge of rectangle areas to calculate the missing measurement of these composite diagrams.
Divide the grid into rectangular pieces so that the area of each piece is the same as the number it contains.
Find the missing numbers in these triangular, self-checking puzzles and discover the wonders of these fascinating structures.
Arrange the given digits to make six 3-digit numbers that combine in an awesome way.
Find your way through the maze encountering mathematical operations in the correct order to achieve the given total.
A puzzle requiring the arrangement of numbers on the function machines to link the given input numbers to the correct output.
Some of the buttons are missing from this calculator. Can you make the totals from 1 to 20?
Place the camping items into the plots on the camp site according to the clues given.
Can you get your car out of the very crowded car park by moving other cars forwards or backwards?
Arrange the numbers from 1 to 9 to make an expression with a value of 100.
An online interactive jigsaw puzzle of a grid of Chinese number symbols.
Quite a challenging number placing puzzle involving fractions.
A different way to complete a Sudoku puzzle with clues available at every stage.
Crack the code by replacing the encrypted letters in the given text. There are lots of hints provided about code breaking techniques.
Find the consective numbers that are added or multiplied to give the given totals
How close can you get to the target by making a calculation out of the five numbers given?
A self marking set of ten mathematical questions about a clock which cracked!
Arrange the numbers from 1 to 6 in the spaces to make the division calculation correct.
Arrange the digits one to nine on the spaces provided to make two division calculations containing multiples of three.
Arrange the dominoes in seven squares. The number of dots along each side of the square must be equal to the number in the middle.
Arrange the digits to make three 3 digit numbers such that the second is double the first and the third is three times the first.
A puzzle to find four different ways of making 900 by multiplying together three different numbers.
The classic hourglass puzzle; Time the boiling of an egg using only the two egg timers provided.
Find the expression from a series of guesses and clues.
Can you determine the unique digits that will complete these factor trees?
Use the number clues to answer the seasonal questions about the five festive figures.
Click on six fleur-de-lis to leave an even number in each row and column.
Arrange the given number tiles to make two 2 digit numbers that add up to the given total.
Figure out which numbers will complete the sentences in the frame correctly. A drag and drop activity.
Arrange the digits one to nine to make the four calculations correct.
Arrange the numbered footballs on the goal posts to make three, 3-number products that are all the same.
Choose the amount of liquid from each bottle needed to make the watermelon grow as big as possible.
Arrange the twelve numbers on the hexagram so that the numbers in each line add up to the same total.
Work out how many items were bought from the information given.
A self marking step by step approach to calculating the number of triangles in a design.
How many two-scoop ice creams can you make from the given flavours?
Can you make four litres if you only have seven and five litre jugs?
A drag and drop activity challenging you to arrange the digits to produce the largest possible product.
Solve this deduction logic puzzle to find who, where and what.
Arrange the given numbers on the cross so that the sum of the numbers in both diagonals is the same.
Each row, column and diagonal should produce the same sum.
Find where the mines are hidden without stepping on one.
Arrange the cards to create a valid mathematical statement.
Solve multi-step problems in contexts, deciding which operations and methods to use and why.
Arrange the given digits to make three numbers such that the third is the product of the first and the second.
Arrange the given digits to make three numbers such that two of them add up to the third.
Use the digits 1 to 9 to make three 3 digit numbers which add up to 999.
The students numbered 1 to 8 should sit on the chairs so that no two consecutively numbered students sit next to each other.
Online, interactive jigsaw puzzles of grids of numbers.
Interactive, randomly-generated, number-based logic puzzle designed to develop numeracy skills.
Arrange the sixteen numbers on the octagram so that the numbers in each line add up to the same total.
Find expressions using only one digit which equal the given targets.
Solve the problem of getting four people through a tunnel with one torch in the minimum amount of time.
Toss the pancakes until they are neatly stacked in order of size. Find how to do this using the smallest number of moves.
Calculate the missing numbers in these partly completed pyramid puzzles.
Partition numbers in different ways according to the clues given. The higher levels are quite hard!
Find the five numbers which when added or multiplied together in pairs to produce the given sums or products.
Arrange the twelve pentominoes in the outline of a rectangle.
Arrange the sixteen numbers on the four by four grid so that groups of four numbers in a pattern add up to the same total.
If you were to pick up the sticks from this pile so that you were always removing the top stick what calculation would you create?
Arrange numbers on the plane shaped grid to produce the given totals
A number arranging puzzle with seven levels of challenge.
Arrange the nine pieces of the puzzle on the grid to make different polygons.
Arrange the given numbers as bases and indices in the three-term sum to make the target total.
Interactive jigsaw puzzles of different types of grids containing prime numbers.
Drag the numbers into the red cells so that the sum of the three numbers in each row and each column is a prime number.
Arrange the given numbers in a three by three grid to obtain the diagonal, row and column products.
A jumbled moving-block puzzle cube is shown as a net. Can you solve it?
Numbers in the bricks are found by adding the two bricks immediately below together. Can you achieve the given target?
The traditional River Crossing challenge. Can you do it in the smallest number of moves?
An online interactive jigsaw puzzle of a grid of Roman numerals.
This is quite a challenging number grouping puzzle requiring a knowledge of prime, square and triangular numbers.
Place the nine numbers in the table so they obey the row and column headings about the properties of the numbers.
Make a schedule for the 24-hour Darts Marathon which will take into account everyone's requests and keep everyone happy.
Arrange a rota for the Scouts to travel in boats so that they are with different people each day.
Arrange the sheep in the field according to the instructions. An introduction to loci.
Move the trams to their indicated parking places in the shunting yard as quickly as possible.
The six button has dropped off! How could these calculations be done using this calculator?
Number puzzles involving adding, multiplying and problem solving
Arrange the numbers on the squares so that the totals along each line of three squares are equal.
Arrange the numbers on the cards so that each of the three digit numbers formed horizontally are square numbers and each of the three digit numbers formed vertically are even.
The Transum version of the traditional sliding tile puzzle.
Ten balance puzzles to prepare you for solving equations.
Interactive number-based logic puzzles similar to those featuring in daily newspapers.
Find a strategy to figure out the values of the letters used in these calculations.
Use the pieces of the T puzzle to fit into the outlines provided. A drag, rotate and drop interactive challenge.
Use the pieces of the tangram puzzle to make the basic shapes then complete the table showing which shapes are possible.
A game, a puzzle and a challenge involving counters being placed at the corners of a square on a grid.
An online interactive jigsaw puzzle of a grid of Thai number symbols.
This is an interactive version of the puzzle described by Henry Ernest Dudeney in The Canterbury Puzzles
A challenge to place all nine counters on the grid in such a way that they form exactly 10 straight lines, with each line containing three counters.
In how many different ways can the numbers be arranged to give the same totals?
Move the pieces of the tower from one place to another in the minimum number of moves.
Solve the number puzzles drawn on the pavement of Trafalgar Square in London.
An adventure game requiring students to solve puzzles as they move through the old mansion.
A mini adventure game containing maths puzzles and problems. Find your way through the maze of tunnels to find Goldberg's magic harpsicord.
Arrange the twelve numbers in the triangles on the hexagram so that the numbers in each line of five triangles add up to the same total.
Arrange the digits 1 to 9 on the triangle so that the sum of the numbers along each side is equal to the given total.
Some picture grid puzzles which can be solved by using simultaneous equations.
Ten questions which can be solved using the unitary method.
Like the magic square but all of the totals should be different.
Help the cops catch the robbers by finding the vectors that will end the chase.
Find the hidden wallaby using the clues revealed at the chosen coordinates.
Decide which mathematical operation is required then use it to find the answers.
Drag the 20 flowers into the gardens so that 9 flowers are visible from each window of the house.
A step by step guide showing how to solve a Word Sum where each letter stands for a different digit.
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