Creating and manipulating expressions and formulae
-
-
-
problemReally Mr. Bond
115^2 = (110 x 120) + 25, that is 13225 895^2 = (890 x 900) + 25, that is 801025 Can you explain what is happening and generalise?
-
-
problemSquare pizza
Can you show that you can share a square pizza equally between two people by cutting it four times using vertical, horizontal and diagonal cuts through any point inside the square? -
problemSemi-square
What is the ratio of the area of a square inscribed in a semicircle to the area of the square inscribed in the entire circle? -
problemPoly fibs
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. -
problemTriangles within pentagons
Show that all pentagonal numbers are one third of a triangular number. -
problemCubes within cubes revisited
Imagine starting with one yellow cube and covering it all over with a single layer of red cubes, and then covering that cube with a layer of blue cubes. How many red and blue cubes would you need? -