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Proof Sorter - Quadratic Equation

Stage: 4 and 5 Challenge Level:

This is an interactivity in which you have to sort the steps in the completion of the square into the correct order to prove the formula for the solutions of quadratic equations.

Always Two

Stage: 4 and 5 Challenge Level:

Find all the triples of numbers a, b, c such that each one of them plus the product of the other two is always 2.

Target Six

Stage: 5 Challenge Level:

Show that x = 1 is a solution of the equation x^(3/2) - 8x^(-3/2) = 7 and find all other solutions.

Two Cubes

Stage: 4 Challenge Level:

Two cubes, each with integral side lengths, have a combined volume equal to the total of the lengths of their edges. How big are the cubes? [If you find a result by 'trial and error' you'll need to. . . .

Conjugate Tracker

Stage: 5 Challenge Level:

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

Plus or Minus

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

Weekly Challenge 39: Symmetrically So

Stage: 5 Challenge Level:

Exploit the symmetry and turn this quartic into a quadratic.

Roots and Coefficients

Stage: 5 Challenge Level:

If xyz = 1 and x+y+z =1/x + 1/y + 1/z show that at least one of these numbers must be 1. Now for the complexity! When are the other numbers real and when are they complex?

Golden Eggs

Stage: 5 Challenge Level:

Find a connection between the shape of a special ellipse and an infinite string of nested square roots.

Stage: 5 Challenge Level:

Find all real solutions of the equation (x^2-7x+11)^(x^2-11x+30) = 1.

Continued Fractions II

Stage: 5

In this article we show that every whole number can be written as a continued fraction of the form k/(1+k/(1+k/...)).

Square Mean

Stage: 4 Challenge Level:

Is the mean of the squares of two numbers greater than, or less than, the square of their means?

Pent

Stage: 4 and 5 Challenge Level:

The diagram shows a regular pentagon with sides of unit length. Find all the angles in the diagram. Prove that the quadrilateral shown in red is a rhombus.

Complex Sine

Stage: 5 Challenge Level:

Solve the equation sin z = 2 for complex z. You only need the formula you are given for sin z in terms of the exponential function, and to solve a quadratic equation and use the logarithmic function.

Interactive Number Patterns

Stage: 4 Challenge Level:

How good are you at finding the formula for a number pattern ?

In Between

Stage: 5 Challenge Level:

Can you find the solution to this algebraic inequality?

Stage: 5 Challenge Level:

Can you find a quadratic equation which passes close to these points?

Pareq Calc

Stage: 4 Challenge Level:

Triangle ABC is an equilateral triangle with three parallel lines going through the vertices. Calculate the length of the sides of the triangle if the perpendicular distances between the parallel. . . .

Golden Thoughts

Stage: 4 Challenge Level:

Rectangle PQRS has X and Y on the edges. Triangles PQY, YRX and XSP have equal areas. Prove X and Y divide the sides of PQRS in the golden ratio.

Weekly Challenge 2: Quad Solve

Stage: 5 Short Challenge Level:

A weekly challenge concerning powers and quadratic equations.

Golden Mathematics

Stage: 5

A voyage of discovery through a sequence of challenges exploring properties of the Golden Ratio and Fibonacci numbers.

Implicitly

Stage: 5 Challenge Level:

Can you find the maximum value of the curve defined by this expression?

Golden Fibs

Stage: 5 Challenge Level:

When is a Fibonacci sequence also a geometric sequence? When the ratio of successive terms is the golden ratio!

Good Approximations

Stage: 5 Challenge Level:

Solve quadratic equations and use continued fractions to find rational approximations to irrational numbers.

Darts and Kites

Stage: 4 Challenge Level:

A rhombus PQRS has an angle of 72 degrees. OQ = OR = OS = 1 unit. Find all the angles, show that POR is a straight line and that the side of the rhombus is equal to the Golden Ratio.

Kissing

Stage: 5 Challenge Level:

Two perpendicular lines are tangential to two identical circles that touch. What is the largest circle that can be placed in between the two lines and the two circles and how would you construct it?

How Many Balls?

Stage: 5 Challenge Level:

A bag contains red and blue balls. You are told the probabilities of drawing certain combinations of balls. Find how many red and how many blue balls there are in the bag.

Pentakite

Stage: 4 and 5 Challenge Level:

ABCDE is a regular pentagon of side length one unit. BC produced meets ED produced at F. Show that triangle CDF is congruent to triangle EDB. Find the length of BE.

How Old Am I?

Stage: 4 Challenge Level:

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?

Cocked Hat

Stage: 5 Challenge Level:

Sketch the graphs for this implicitly defined family of functions.

Golden Ratio

Stage: 5 Challenge Level:

Solve an equation involving the Golden Ratio phi where the unknown occurs as a power of phi.

Xtra

Stage: 4 and 5 Challenge Level:

Find the sides of an equilateral triangle ABC where a trapezium BCPQ is drawn with BP=CQ=2 , PQ=1 and AP+AQ=sqrt7 . Note: there are 2 possible interpretations.

Halving the Triangle

Stage: 5 Challenge Level:

Draw any triangle PQR. Find points A, B and C, one on each side of the triangle, such that the area of triangle ABC is a given fraction of the area of triangle PQR.

Partly Circles

Stage: 4 Challenge Level:

What is the same and what is different about these circle questions? What connections can you make?

Golden Construction

Stage: 5 Challenge Level:

Draw a square and an arc of a circle and construct the Golden rectangle. Find the value of the Golden Ratio.

Polar Flower

Stage: 5 Challenge Level:

This polar equation is a quadratic. Plot the graph given by each factor to draw the flower.

Bird-brained

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How many eggs should a bird lay to maximise the number of chicks that will hatch? An introduction to optimisation.

Resistance

Stage: 5 Challenge Level:

Find the equation from which to calculate the resistance of an infinite network of resistances.