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If a sum invested gains 10% each year how long before it has doubled its value?
However did we manage before calculators? Is there an efficient way to do a square root if you have to do the work yourself?
Euler found four whole numbers such that the sum of any two of the numbers is a perfect square. Three of the numbers that he found are a = 18530, b=65570, c=45986. Find the fourth number, x. You. . . .
Start with two numbers. This is the start of a sequence. The next number is the average of the last two numbers. Continue the sequence. What will happen if you carry on for ever?
The diagram illustrates the formula: 1 + 3 + 5 + ... + (2n - 1) = n² Use the diagram to show that any odd number is the difference of two squares.
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 is the greatest volume you can get for a rectangular (cuboid) parcel if the maximum combined length and girth are 2 metres?
What does this number mean ? Which order of 1, 2, 3 and 4 makes the highest value ? Which makes the lowest ?
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?
Use Excel to investigate the effect of translations around a number grid.
A square patio was tiled with square tiles all the same size. Some of the tiles were removed from the middle of the patio in order to make a square flower bed, but the number of the remaining tiles. . . .
Use an interactive Excel spreadsheet to explore number in this exciting game!
A simple file for the Interactive whiteboard or PC screen, demonstrating equivalent fractions.
A ribbon is nailed down with a small amount of slack. What is the largest cube that can pass under the ribbon ?
Use an Excel spreadsheet to explore long multiplication.
A group of interactive resources to support work on percentages Key Stage 4.
Use an Excel to investigate division. Explore the relationships between the process elements using an interactive spreadsheet.
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 ?
It's like 'Peaches Today, Peaches Tomorrow' but interestingly generalized.
Use Excel to practise adding and subtracting fractions.
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 ?
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?
An aluminium can contains 330 ml of cola. If the can's diameter is 6 cm what is the can's height?
What day of the week were you born on? Do you know? Here's a way to find out.
Use an interactive Excel spreadsheet to investigate factors and multiples.
Find the frequency distribution for ordinary English, and use it to help you crack the code.
In how many ways can a pound (value 100 pence) be changed into some combination of 1, 2, 5, 10, 20 and 50 pence coins?
A woman was born in a year that was a square number, lived a square number of years and died in a year that was also a square number. When was she born?
An Excel spreadsheet with an investigation.
Use Excel to explore multiplication of fractions.
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.
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?
This investigation uses Excel to optimise a characteristic of interest.
Learn how to use composite bar charts in Excel.
A fire-fighter needs to fill a bucket of water from the river and take it to a fire. What is the best point on the river bank for the fire-fighter to fill the bucket ?.
Learn how to use increment buttons and scroll bars to create interactive Excel resources.
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?
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 start.
Learn how to make a simple table using Excel.
When is 7^n + 3^n a multiple of 10? Use Excel to investigate, and try to explain what you find out.
Investigate factors and multiples using this interactive Excel spreadsheet. Use the increment buttons for experimentation and feedback.
How much peel does an apple have?
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.
Use an Excel spreadsheet to approximate a decimal using trial and improvement.
Learn how to use lookup functions to create exciting interactive Excel spreadsheets.
Use Excel to investigate digit sums of multiples of three. Can you explain your findings?
Use Excel to investigate remainders and divisors. Was your result predictable?
Learn how to use logic tests to create interactive resources using Excel.
Learn how to use the Excel functions LCM and GCD.
Choose four numbers and make two fractions. Use an Excel spreadsheet to investigate their properties. Can you generalise?