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Sheffuls

Stage: 4 Challenge Level: Challenge Level:2 Challenge Level:2

Discover a handy way to describe reorderings and solve our anagram in the process.

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Zodiac

Stage: 4 Challenge Level: Challenge Level:3 Challenge Level:3 Challenge Level:3

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Shuffles Tutorials

Stage: 3 Challenge Level: Challenge Level:1

Learn how to use the Shuffles interactivity by running through these tutorial demonstrations.

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Paint Rollers for Frieze Patterns.

Stage: 3 and 4

Proofs that there are only seven frieze patterns involve complicated group theory. The symmetries of a cylinder provide an easier approach.

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Simplifying Transformations

Stage: 3 Challenge Level: Challenge Level:3 Challenge Level:3 Challenge Level:3

How many different transformations can you find made up from combinations of R, S and their inverses? Can you be sure that you have found them all?

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Dancing with Maths

Stage: 2, 3 and 4

An article for students and teachers on symmetry and square dancing. What do the symmetries of the square have to do with a dos-e-dos or a swing? Find out more?

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Grouping Transformations

Stage: 3, 4 and 5

An introduction to groups using transformations, following on from the October 2006 Stage 3 problems.


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