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Each time you visit the NRICH site there will be some activities which are 'live'. This means we are inviting students to send us solutions, and we will publish a selection of them, along with each student's name and their school, a few weeks later. If you'd like to know more about what we're looking for, read this short article.
The last day for sending solutions to these live problems is Monday 17 June.
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?
How many ways can you find to do up all four buttons on my coat? How about if I had five buttons? Six ...?
How many solutions can you find to this sum? Each of the different letters stands for a different number.
An ordinary set of dominoes can be laid out as a 7 by 4 magic rectangle in which all the spots in all the columns add to 24, while those in the rows add to 42. Try it! Now try the magic square...
Take a look at these recently solved problems.
Try out this number trick. What happens with different starting numbers? What do you notice?
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.