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Reasoning: Identifying Opportunities (Selection of Tasks)

This selection of tasks offers opportunities for learners to reason for different purposes and in different ways.  You can read more about the reasons for choosing them in this accompanying article. They form part of our Reasoning Feature, which also includes tasks chosen to help learners move from being a novice reasoner to becoming an expert reasoner.

Eggs in Baskets

Age 5 to 7
Challenge Level Yellow starYellow star

There are three baskets, a brown one, a red one and a pink one, holding a total of 10 eggs. How many eggs are in each basket?

That Number Square

Age 5 to 11
Challenge Level Yellow star

How quickly can you put back the numbers on the hundred square? What's the 'best' way to do it?

Hundred Square

Age 5 to 11
Challenge Level Yellow starYellow star

A hundred square has been printed on both sides of a piece of paper. What is on the back of 100? 58? 23? 19?

Coded Hundred Square

Age 7 to 11
Challenge Level Yellow star

This 100 square jigsaw is written in code. It starts with 1 and ends with 100. Can you build it up?

Maze 100

Age 7 to 11
Challenge Level Yellow starYellow star

Can you go through this maze so that the numbers you pass add to exactly 100?

Amy's Dominoes

Age 7 to 11
Challenge Level Yellow starYellow star

Amy has a box containing domino pieces but she does not think it is a complete set. Which of her domino pieces are missing?

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The NRICH Project aims to enrich the mathematical experiences of all learners. To support this aim, members of the NRICH team work in a wide range of capacities, including providing professional development for teachers wishing to embed rich mathematical tasks into everyday classroom practice.

NRICH is part of the family of activities in the Millennium Mathematics Project.

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