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Thebault's Theorem

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Take any parallelogram and draw squares on the sides of the parallelogram. What can you prove about the quadrilateral formed by joining the centres of these squares?

Conjugate Tracker

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Make a conjecture about the curved track taken by the complex roots of a quadratic equation and use complex conjugates to prove your conjecture.

Shuffles

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An environment for exploring the properties of small groups.

How Old Am I?

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In 15 years' time my age will be the square of my age 15 years ago. Can you work out my age, and when I had other special birthdays?

Polycircles

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Show that for any triangle it is always possible to construct 3 touching circles with centres at the vertices. Is it possible to construct touching circles centred at the vertices of any polygon?

Cyclic Triangles

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Make and prove a conjecture about the cyclic quadrilateral inscribed in a circle of radius r that has the maximum perimeter and the maximum area.

Tri-split

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A point P is selected anywhere inside an equilateral triangle. What can you say about the sum of the perpendicular distances from P to the sides of the triangle? Can you prove your conjecture?

Pythagorean Fibs

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What have Fibonacci numbers got to do with Pythagorean triples?

Least of All

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A point moves on a line segment. A function depends on the position of the point. Where do you expect the point to be for a minimum of this function to occur.

Few and Far Between?

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Can you find some Pythagorean Triples where the two smaller numbers differ by 1?

Trig Rules OK

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Change the squares in this diagram and spot the property that stays the same for the triangles. Explain...

Plus or Minus

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Make and prove a conjecture about the value of the product of the Fibonacci numbers $F_{n+1}F_{n-1}$.

Triangles Within Triangles

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Can you find a rule which connects consecutive triangular numbers?

Vecten

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Join in this ongoing research. Build squares on the sides of a triangle, join the outer vertices forming hexagons, build further rings of squares and quadrilaterals, investigate.

Triangles Within Squares

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Can you find a rule which relates triangular numbers to square numbers?

Triangles Within Pentagons

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Show that all pentagonal numbers are one third of a triangular number.

Fibonacci Fashion

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What have Fibonacci numbers to do with solutions of the quadratic equation x^2 - x - 1 = 0 ?

Center Path

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Four rods of equal length are hinged at their endpoints to form a rhombus. The diagonals meet at X. One edge is fixed, the opposite edge is allowed to move in the plane. Describe the locus of. . . .

Painting by Numbers

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How many different colours of paint would be needed to paint these pictures by numbers?

Close to Triangular

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Drawing a triangle is not always as easy as you might think!

A Little Light Thinking

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Here is a machine with four coloured lights. Can you make two lights switch on at once? Three lights? All four lights?

Curvy Areas

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Have a go at creating these images based on circles. What do you notice about the areas of the different sections?

Multiplication Arithmagons

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Can you find the values at the vertices when you know the values on the edges of these multiplication arithmagons?

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Explore the relationship between quadratic functions and their graphs.

Steve's Mapping

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Steve has created two mappings. Can you figure out what they do? What questions do they prompt you to ask?

What's Possible?

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Many numbers can be expressed as the difference of two perfect squares. What do you notice about the numbers you CANNOT make?

Discrete Trends

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Find the maximum value of n to the power 1/n and prove that it is a maximum.

The Clue Is in the Question

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This problem is a sequence of linked mini-challenges leading up to the proof of a difficult final challenge, encouraging you to think mathematically. Starting with one of the mini-challenges, how. . . .

Prime Sequences

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This group tasks allows you to search for arithmetic progressions in the prime numbers. How many of the challenges will you discover for yourself?

Alison's Mapping

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Alison has created two mappings. Can you figure out what they do? What questions do they prompt you to ask?

Epidemic Modelling

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Use the computer to model an epidemic. Try out public health policies to control the spread of the epidemic, to minimise the number of sick days and deaths.

2^n -n Numbers

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Yatir from Israel wrote this article on numbers that can be written as $2^n-n$ where n is a positive integer.

To Prove or Not to Prove

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A serious but easily readable discussion of proof in mathematics with some amusing stories and some interesting examples.

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The points P, Q, R and S are the midpoints of the edges of a convex quadrilateral. What do you notice about the quadrilateral PQRS as the convex quadrilateral changes?

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The points P, Q, R and S are the midpoints of the edges of a non-convex quadrilateral.What do you notice about the quadrilateral PQRS and its area?

Integral Sandwich

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Generalise this inequality involving integrals.

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Points D, E and F are on the the sides of triangle ABC. Circumcircles are drawn to the triangles ADE, BEF and CFD respectively. What do you notice about these three circumcircles?

Fixing It

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A and B are two fixed points on a circle and RS is a variable diamater. What is the locus of the intersection P of AR and BS?

Summats Clear

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Find the sum, f(n), of the first n terms of the sequence: 0, 1, 1, 2, 2, 3, 3........p, p, p +1, p + 1,..... Prove that f(a + b) - f(a - b) = ab.

Pericut

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Two semicircle sit on the diameter of a semicircle centre O of twice their radius. Lines through O divide the perimeter into two parts. What can you say about the lengths of these two parts?

Pentagon

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Find the vertices of a pentagon given the midpoints of its sides.

OK! Now Prove It

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Make a conjecture about the sum of the squares of the odd positive integers. Can you prove it?

Loopy

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Investigate sequences given by $a_n = \frac{1+a_{n-1}}{a_{n-2}}$ for different choices of the first two terms. Make a conjecture about the behaviour of these sequences. Can you prove your conjecture?

Binary Squares

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If a number N is expressed in binary by using only 'ones,' what can you say about its square (in binary)?

Why Stop at Three by One

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Beautiful mathematics. Two 18 year old students gave eight different proofs of one result then generalised it from the 3 by 1 case to the n by 1 case and proved the general result.

The Kth Sum of N Numbers

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Yatir from Israel describes his method for summing a series of triangle numbers.

Recent Developments on S.P. Numbers

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Take a number, add its digits then multiply the digits together, then multiply these two results. If you get the same number it is an SP number.

Poly Fibs

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A sequence of polynomials starts 0, 1 and each poly is given by combining the two polys in the sequence just before it. Investigate and prove results about the roots of the polys.

Fibonacci Factors

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For which values of n is the Fibonacci number fn even? Which Fibonnaci numbers are divisible by 3?