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NRICH topics: Place value and the number system Place value

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There are 127 NRICH Mathematical resources connected to Place value, you may find related items under Place value and the number system.

Broad Topics > Place value and the number system > Place value

Problem Live Primary curriculum Secondary curriculum

More Less Is More

In each of these games, you will need a little bit of luck, and your knowledge of place value to develop a winning strategy.

Age 7 to 14
Challenge Level Yellow star
Problem Primary curriculum Secondary curriculum

Less Is More

Use your knowledge of place value to try to win this game. How will you maximise your score?

Age 7 to 11
Challenge Level Yellow star
Problem Primary curriculum Secondary curriculum

The Number Jumbler

The Number Jumbler can always work out your chosen symbol. Can you work out how?

Age 7 to 14
Challenge Level Yellow star
Problem Primary curriculum Secondary curriculum

Digit Addition

Try out this number trick. What happens with different starting numbers? What do you notice?

Age 5 to 11
Challenge Level Yellow star
Problem Primary curriculum Secondary curriculum

Dicey Addition

Who said that adding couldn't be fun?

Age 5 to 11
Challenge Level Yellow star
Problem Primary curriculum Secondary curriculum

Reversals

Where should you start, if you want to finish back where you started?

Age 11 to 14
Challenge Level Yellow starYellow star
Problem Primary curriculum Secondary curriculum

Forwards Add Backwards

What happens when you add a three digit number to its reverse?

Age 11 to 14
Challenge Level Yellow star
Problem Primary curriculum Secondary curriculum

Add to 200

By selecting digits for an addition grid, what targets can you make?

Age 11 to 14
Challenge Level Yellow star
Problem Primary curriculum Secondary curriculum

Subtraction Surprise

Try out some calculations. Are you surprised by the results?

Age 7 to 14
Challenge Level Yellow star
Problem Primary curriculum Secondary curriculum

Multiply Multiples 3

Have a go at balancing this equation. Can you find different ways of doing it?

Age 7 to 11
Challenge Level Yellow star
Problem Primary curriculum Secondary curriculum

Round the Dice Decimals 1

Use two dice to generate two numbers with one decimal place. What happens when you round these numbers to the nearest whole number?

Age 7 to 11
Challenge Level Yellow star
Problem Live Primary curriculum Secondary curriculum

Round the Three Dice

What happens when you round these three-digit numbers to the nearest 100?

Age 7 to 11
Challenge Level Yellow star
Problem Primary curriculum Secondary curriculum

Round the Dice Decimals 2

What happens when you round these numbers to the nearest whole number?

Age 7 to 11
Challenge Level Yellow star
Problem Primary curriculum Secondary curriculum

Multiply Multiples 2

Can you work out some different ways to balance this equation?

Age 7 to 11
Challenge Level Yellow star
Problem Primary curriculum Secondary curriculum

Multiply Multiples 1

Can you complete this calculation by filling in the missing numbers? In how many different ways can you do it?

Age 7 to 11
Challenge Level Yellow star
Problem Primary curriculum Secondary curriculum

Two Spinners

What two-digit numbers can you make with these two dice? What can't you make?

Age 5 to 7
Challenge Level Yellow star
Problem Primary curriculum Secondary curriculum

That Number Square

Exploring the structure of a number square: how quickly can you put the number tiles in the right place on the grid?

Age 5 to 11
Challenge Level Yellow star
Problem Primary curriculum Secondary curriculum

Always a Multiple?

Think of a two digit number, reverse the digits, and add the numbers together. Something special happens...

Age 11 to 14
Challenge Level Yellow starYellow star
Problem Primary curriculum Secondary curriculum

Light the Lights

Investigate which numbers make these lights come on. What is the smallest number you can find that lights up all the lights?

Age 5 to 7
Challenge Level Yellow starYellow star
Problem Primary curriculum Secondary curriculum

Our Numbers

These spinners will give you the tens and unit digits of a number. Can you choose sets of numbers to collect so that you spin six numbers belonging to your sets in as few spins as possible?

Age 5 to 7
Challenge Level Yellow star
Game Primary curriculum Secondary curriculum

Dicey Operations

Who said that adding, subtracting, multiplying and dividing couldn't be fun?

Age 11 to 14
Challenge Level Yellow star
Problem Primary curriculum Secondary curriculum

Nice or Nasty

There are nasty versions of this dice game but we'll start with the nice ones...

Age 7 to 14
Challenge Level Yellow star
Problem Primary curriculum Secondary curriculum

Coded Hundred Square

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

Age 7 to 11
Challenge Level Yellow star
Problem Primary curriculum Secondary curriculum

What Do You Need?

Four of these clues are needed to find the chosen number on this grid and four are true but do nothing to help in finding the number. Can you sort out the clues and find the number?

Age 7 to 11
Challenge Level Yellow star
Problem Primary curriculum Secondary curriculum

Method in Multiplying Madness?

Watch our videos of multiplication methods that you may not have met before. Can you make sense of them?

Age 7 to 14
Challenge Level Yellow starYellow star
Problem Primary curriculum Secondary curriculum

Diagonal Sums

In this 100 square, look at the green square which contains the numbers 2, 3, 12 and 13. What is the sum of the numbers that are diagonally opposite each other? What do you notice?

Age 7 to 14
Challenge Level Yellow starYellow star
Problem Primary curriculum Secondary curriculum

An Easy Way to Multiply by 10?

Do you agree with Badger's statements? Is Badger's reasoning 'watertight'? Why or why not?

Age 7 to 11
Challenge Level Yellow star
Problem Primary curriculum Secondary curriculum

How Many Miles to Go?

How many more miles must the car travel before the numbers on the milometer and the trip meter contain the same digits in the same order?

Age 11 to 14
Challenge Level Yellow starYellow starYellow star
Problem Primary curriculum Secondary curriculum

What an Odd Fact(or)

Can you show that 1^99 + 2^99 + 3^99 + 4^99 + 5^99 is divisible by 5?

Age 11 to 14
Challenge Level Yellow starYellow starYellow star
Problem Primary curriculum Secondary curriculum

Trebling

Can you replace the letters with numbers? Is there only one solution in each case?

Age 7 to 11
Challenge Level Yellow star
Problem Primary curriculum Secondary curriculum

Sixty-seven Squared

Evaluate these powers of 67. What do you notice? Can you convince someone what the answer would be to (a million sixes followed by a 7) squared?

Age 16 to 18
Challenge Level Yellow star
Problem Primary curriculum Secondary curriculum

Six Times Five

How many six digit numbers are there which DO NOT contain a 5?

Age 11 to 14
Challenge Level Yellow starYellow starYellow star
Problem Primary curriculum Secondary curriculum

Which Is Quicker?

Which is quicker, counting up to 30 in ones or counting up to 300 in tens? Why?

Age 7 to 11
Challenge Level Yellow star
Problem Primary curriculum Secondary curriculum

Think of Two Numbers

Think of two whole numbers under 10, and follow the steps. I can work out both your numbers very quickly. How?

Age 11 to 14
Challenge Level Yellow starYellow star
Problem Primary curriculum Secondary curriculum

Reach 100

Choose four different digits from 1-9 and put one in each box so that the resulting four two-digit numbers add to a total of 100.

Age 7 to 11
Challenge Level Yellow starYellow star
Problem Primary curriculum Secondary curriculum

All the Digits

This multiplication uses each of the digits 0 - 9 once and once only. Using the information given, can you replace the stars in the calculation with figures?

Age 7 to 11
Challenge Level Yellow starYellow star
Problem Primary curriculum Secondary curriculum

Number Rules - OK

Can you produce convincing arguments that a selection of statements about numbers are true?

Age 14 to 16
Challenge Level Yellow starYellow star
Problem Primary curriculum Secondary curriculum

Two and Two

How many solutions can you find to this sum? Each of the different letters stands for a different number.

Age 11 to 16
Challenge Level Yellow starYellow starYellow star
Problem Primary curriculum Secondary curriculum

Which Scripts?

There are six numbers written in five different scripts. Can you sort out which is which?

Age 7 to 11
Challenge Level Yellow star
Problem Primary curriculum Secondary curriculum

Plus Minus

Can you explain the surprising results Jo found when she calculated the difference between square numbers?

Age 14 to 16
Challenge Level Yellow starYellow star
Problem Primary curriculum Secondary curriculum

Legs Eleven

Take any four digit number. Move the first digit to the end and move the rest along. Now add your two numbers. Did you get a multiple of 11?

Age 11 to 14
Challenge Level Yellow starYellow star
Problem Primary curriculum Secondary curriculum

Big Powers

Three people chose this as a favourite problem. It is the sort of problem that needs thinking time - but once the connection is made it gives access to many similar ideas.

Age 11 to 16
Challenge Level Yellow starYellow starYellow star
Problem Primary curriculum Secondary curriculum

2-digit Square

A 2-Digit number is squared. When this 2-digit number is reversed and squared, the difference between the squares is also a square. What is the 2-digit number?

Age 14 to 16
Challenge Level Yellow starYellow starYellow star
Problem Primary curriculum Secondary curriculum

Latin Numbers

Can you create a Latin Square from multiples of a six digit number?

Age 14 to 16
Challenge Level Yellow starYellow starYellow star
Problem Primary curriculum Secondary curriculum

Number Detective

Follow the clues to find the mystery number.

Age 5 to 11
Challenge Level Yellow star
Problem Primary curriculum Secondary curriculum

Writing Digits

Lee was writing all the counting numbers from 1 to 20. She stopped for a rest after writing seventeen digits. What was the last number she wrote?

Age 5 to 7
Challenge Level Yellow star
Problem Primary curriculum Secondary curriculum

BT.. Eat Your Heart Out

If the last four digits of my phone number are placed in front of the remaining three you get one more than twice my number! What is it?

Age 16 to 18
Challenge Level Yellow starYellow star
Problem Primary curriculum Secondary curriculum

Purr-fection

What is the smallest perfect square that ends with the four digits 9009?

Age 16 to 18
Challenge Level Yellow star
Problem Primary curriculum Secondary curriculum

Six Is the Sum

What do the digits in the number fifteen add up to? How many other numbers have digits with the same total but no zeros?

Age 7 to 11
Challenge Level Yellow starYellow star
Problem Primary curriculum Secondary curriculum

Double Digit

Choose two digits and arrange them to make two double-digit numbers. Now add your double-digit numbers. Now add your single digit numbers. Divide your double-digit answer by your single-digit answer. Try lots of examples. What happens? Can you explain it?

Age 11 to 14
Challenge Level Yellow star

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