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Broad Topics > Numbers and the Number System > Prime numbers

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Weekly Challenge 44: Prime Counter

Stage: 5 Challenge Level: Challenge Level:1

A weekly challenge concerning prime numbers.

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Prime Sequences

Stage: 5 Challenge Level: Challenge Level:1

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

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Black Box

Stage: 5 Challenge Level: Challenge Level:3 Challenge Level:3 Challenge Level:3

This black box reveals random values of some important, but unusual, mathematical functions. Can you deduce the purpose of the black box?

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Different by One

Stage: 4 Challenge Level: Challenge Level:1

Make a line of green and a line of yellow rods so that the lines differ in length by one (a white rod)

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Factorial Fun

Stage: 5 Challenge Level: Challenge Level:3 Challenge Level:3 Challenge Level:3

How many divisors does factorial n (n!) have?

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An Introduction to Proof by Contradiction

Stage: 4 and 5

An introduction to proof by contradiction, a powerful method of mathematical proof.

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Why 24?

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

Take any prime number greater than 3 , square it and subtract one. Working on the building blocks will help you to explain what is special about your results.


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