How is the length of time between the birth of an animal and the birth of its great great ... great grandparent distributed?
Choose four numbers and make two fractions. Use an Excel
spreadsheet to investigate their properties. Can you generalise?
Learn how to use logic tests to create interactive resources using
Use an Excel spreadsheet to approximate a decimal using trial and
Learn how to use advanced pasting techniques to create interactive
Learn how to use the Excel functions LCM and GCD.
Use Excel to find sets of three numbers so that the sum of the
squares of the first two is equal to the square of the third.
Use Excel to investigate remainders and divisors. Was your result
Learn how to use lookup functions to create exciting interactive
Take any whole number between 1 and 999, add the squares of the
digits to get a new number. Use a spreadsheet to investigate this
Learn how to use conditional formatting to create attractive
interactive spreadsheets in Excel.
Learn how to use composite bar charts in Excel.
Use Excel to create some number pyramids. How are the numbers in the base line related to each other? Investigate using the spreadsheet.
This spreadsheet highlights multiples of numbers up to 20 in
Pascal's triangle. What patterns can you see?
Learn how to use Excel to create triangular arrays.
This investigation uses Excel to optimise a characteristic of
Use Excel to investigate digit sums of multiples of three. Can you
explain your findings?
With access to weather station data, what interesting questions can you investigate?
Learn how to use increment buttons and scroll bars to create
interactive Excel resources.
A number of useful techniques that can extend your use of Excel.
A heap of beads was shared out by a professional bead sharer. Use
the information given to find out how many beads there were at the
Learn how to make a simple table using Excel.
Use an Excel spreadsheet to investigate differences between four
numbers. Which set of start numbers give the longest run before
becoming 0 0 0 0?
I have an unlimited supply of planks, of lengths 7 and 9 units.
Putting planks end to end, what total lengths can be achieved? Use
Excel to investigate.
If you take two integers and look at the difference between the
square of each value, there is a nice relationship between the
original numbers and that difference. Can you find the pattern
using. . . .
Investigate factors and multiples using this interactive Excel
spreadsheet. Use the increment buttons for experimentation and
When is 7^n + 3^n a multiple of 10? Use Excel to investigate, and
try to explain what you find out.
Your school has been left a million pounds in the will of an ex-
pupil. What model of investment and spending would you use in order
to ensure the best return on the money?
How much peel does an apple have?
Take ten sticks in heaps any way you like. Make a new heap using
one from each of the heaps. By repeating that process could the
arrangement 7 - 1 - 1 - 1 ever turn up, except by starting with it?
Take any pair of numbers, say 9 and 14. Take the larger number,
fourteen, and count up in 14s. Then divide each of those values by
the 9, and look at the remainders.
Using an understanding that 1:2 and 2:3 were good ratios, start
with a length and keep reducing it to 2/3 of itself. Each time that
took the length under 1/2 they doubled it to get back within range.
What are your chances of winning a game of tennis?
By tossing a coin one of three princes is chosen to be the next
King of Randomia. Does each prince have an equal chance of taking
An aluminium can contains 330 ml of cola. If the can's diameter is
6 cm what is the can's height?
Use Farey sequences to obtain rational approximations to irrational
A plastic funnel is used to pour liquids through narrow apertures.
What shape funnel would use the least amount of plastic to
manufacture for any specific volume ?
The heptathlon is an athletics competition consisting of 7 events. Can you make sense of the scoring system in order to advise a heptathlete on the best way to reach her target?
Substitute -1, -2 or -3, into an algebraic expression and you'll
get three results. Is it possible to tell in advance which of those
three will be the largest ?
Use an Excel spreadsheet to explore long multiplication.
An Excel spreadsheet with an investigation.
Use an Excel to investigate division. Explore the relationships
between the process elements using an interactive spreadsheet.
Use Excel to practise adding and subtracting fractions.
Use an interactive Excel spreadsheet to investigate factors and
A simple file for the Interactive whiteboard or PC screen,
demonstrating equivalent fractions.
Use an interactive Excel spreadsheet to explore number in this
A group of interactive resources to support work on percentages Key
Use Excel to explore multiplication of fractions.
Use Excel to investigate the effect of translations around a number