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Noah saw 12 legs walk by into the Ark. How many creatures did he see?
Can you score 100 by throwing rings on this board? Is there more
than way to do it?
Arrange the numbers 1 to 6 in each set of circles below. The sum of each side of the triangle should equal the number in its centre.
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Winifred Wytsh bought a box each of jelly babies, milk jelly bears,
yellow jelly bees and jelly belly beans. In how many different ways
could she make a jolly jelly feast with 32 legs?
Place the digits 1 to 9 into the circles so that each side of the
triangle adds to the same total.
A lady has a steel rod and a wooden pole and she knows the length
of each. How can she measure out an 8 unit piece of pole?
In Sam and Jill's garden there are two sorts of ladybirds with 7 spots or 4 spots. What numbers of total spots can you make?
Here are the prices for 1st and 2nd class mail within the UK. You have an unlimited number of each of these stamps. Which stamps would you need to post a parcel weighing 825g?
Zumf makes spectacles for the residents of the planet Zargon, who
have either 3 eyes or 4 eyes. How many lenses will Zumf need to
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Move from the START to the FINISH by moving across or down to the
next square. Can you find a route to make these totals?
There are 78 prisoners in a square cell block of twelve cells. The
clever prison warder arranged them so there were 25 along each wall
of the prison block. How did he do it?
There are to be 6 homes built on a new development site. They could
be semi-detached, detached or terraced houses. How many different
combinations of these can you find?
How many ways can you find to do up all four buttons on my coat?
How about if I had five buttons? Six ...?
How could you put eight beanbags in the hoops so that there are
four in the blue hoop, five in the red and six in the yellow? Can
you find all the ways of doing this?
You have two egg timers. One takes 4 minutes exactly to empty and
the other takes 7 minutes. What times in whole minutes can you
measure and how?
If each of these three shapes has a value, can you find the totals
of the combinations? Perhaps you can use the shapes to make the
given totals?
Use these head, body and leg pieces to make Robot Monsters which
are different heights.
Go through the maze, collecting and losing your money as you go.
Which route gives you the highest return? And the lowest?
Arrange eight of the numbers between 1 and 9 in the Polo Square
below so that each side adds to the same total.
Using 3 rods of integer lengths, none longer than 10 units and not
using any rod more than once, you can measure all the lengths in
whole units from 1 to 10 units. How many ways can you do this?
Lolla bought a balloon at the circus. She gave the clown six coins
to pay for it. What could Lolla have paid for the balloon?
Start with three pairs of socks. Now mix them up so that no
mismatched pair is the same as another mismatched pair. Is there
more than one way to do it?
Let's say you can only use two different lengths - 2 units and 4
units. Using just these 2 lengths as the edges how many different
cuboids can you make?
In how many ways could Mrs Beeswax put ten coins into her three
puddings so that each pudding ended up with at least two coins?
Explore the different snakes that can be made using 5 cubes.
Imagine that the puzzle pieces of a jigsaw are roughly a
rectangular shape and all the same size. How many different puzzle
pieces could there be?
If we had 16 light bars which digital numbers could we make? How
will you know you've found them all?
El Crico the cricket has to cross a square patio to get home. He
can jump the length of one tile, two tiles and three tiles. Can you
find a path that would get El Crico home in three jumps?
Take a rectangle of paper and fold it in half, and half again, to
make four smaller rectangles. How many different ways can you fold
it up?
Four children were sharing a set of twenty-four butterfly cards.
Are there any cards they all want? Are there any that none of them
Tim had nine cards each with a different number from 1 to 9 on it.
How could he have put them into three piles so that the total in
each pile was 15?
In this maze of hexagons, you start in the centre at 0. The next
hexagon must be a multiple of 2 and the next a multiple of 5. What
are the possible paths you could take?
In this challenge, buckets come in five different sizes. If you choose some buckets, can you investigate the different ways in which they can be filled?
Place the 16 different combinations of cup/saucer in this 4 by 4 arrangement so that no row or column contains more than one cup or saucer of the same colour.
My coat has three buttons. How many ways can you find to do up all
the buttons?
Semaphore is a way to signal the alphabet using two flags. You
might want to send a message that contains more than just letters.
How many other symbols could you send using this code?
Sam sets up displays of cat food in his shop in triangular stacks.
If Felix buys some, then how can Sam arrange the remaining cans in
triangular stacks?
What do the digits in the number fifteen add up to? How many other
numbers have digits with the same total but no zeros?
Make a pair of cubes that can be moved to show all the days of the
month from the 1st to the 31st.
There were chews for 2p, mini eggs for 3p, Chocko bars for 5p and
lollypops for 7p in the sweet shop. What could each of the children
buy with their money?
You cannot choose a selection of ice cream flavours that includes
totally what someone has already chosen. Have a go and find all the
different ways in which seven children can have ice cream.
How can you put five cereal packets together to make different
shapes if you must put them face-to-face?
When intergalactic Wag Worms are born they look just like a cube.
Each year they grow another cube in any direction. Find all the
shapes that five-year-old Wag Worms can be.
In a bowl there are 4 Chocolates, 3 Jellies and 5 Mints. Find a way
to share the sweets between the three children so they each get the
kind they like. Is there more than one way to do it?
Ana and Ross looked in a trunk in the attic. They found old cloaks
and gowns, hats and masks. How many possible costumes could they
Use the clues to work out which cities Mohamed, Sheng, Tanya and
Bharat live in.
How many different shapes can you make by putting four right-
angled isosceles triangles together?
The challenge here is to find as many routes as you can for a fence
to go so that this town is divided up into two halves, each with 8


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At a council meeting in Abbeville, a decision will be made whether or not mobile homes that are 15 years or older can be relocated into city limits.
Mortimer Cottrell was unaware that his plans to move elsewhere in the city could change with a council vote.
"It's going to be kinda tough," said Cottrell. "Were planning on moving now. If that law were to pass and we stay here another three years it'd be kinda hard. I don't know what we'd do."
As the ordinance stands mobile homes twenty years or older may not be permitted to relocate in Abbevillle, but could change to 15.
Mobile home owners already in Abbeville are not being forced to follow the new law. But if at any point residents want to relocate to within the city, their home will be forced to comply with new standards.
Cottrell lives in a 12 year old mobile home and says the cost of moving a trailer is expensive enough.
"If you wanted a home and couldn't afford a new one and you wanted something where would you go," said Cottrell.
Residents like Cottrell are close to the 15 year limit but officials say residents should not be concerned.
"We don't want to deny anybody an opportunity to have a home to live in thats not what this is about its simply an upgrade," said Francis Plaisence, Councilman at Large.
Plaisence says the ordinance is meant to improve the look of the city and mobile home living, but residents are not sold on the idea.
"It would make the area look better but people can only buy what they can afford," said Cottrell.
Each home will be looked at on a case by case basis in order to determine it's status.
"You could have a trailer thats 15 years old but the condition of it may be as if it was 30," said Plaisence. "Yet you may have a mobile home of 15 years and the condition could be 10 or five."
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