Explaining, convincing and proving

  • Cube Net
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    Cube Net

    Age
    16 to 18
    Challenge level
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    How many tours visit each vertex of a cube once and only once? How many return to the starting point?
  • Can it be?
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    Can It Be?

    Age
    16 to 18
    Challenge level
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    When if ever do you get the right answer if you add two fractions by adding the numerators and adding the denominators?
  • And so on - and on -and on
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    And so on - And on - And On

    Age
    16 to 18
    Challenge level
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    Can you find the value of this function involving algebraic fractions for x=2000?

  • A Leg to Stand On
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    A Leg to Stand On

    Age
    11 to 14
    Challenge level
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    Can you work out the number of chairs at a cafe from the number of legs?
  • Discrete Trends
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    Discrete Trends

    Age
    16 to 18
    Challenge level
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    Find the maximum value of n to the power 1/n and prove that it is a maximum.
  • What's a Group?
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    What's a Group?

    Age
    16 to 18
    Challenge level
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    Explore the properties of some groups such as: The set of all real numbers excluding -1 together with the operation x*y = xy + x + y. Find the identity and the inverse of the element x.
  • Golden Eggs
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    Golden Eggs

    Age
    16 to 18
    Challenge level
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    Find a connection between the shape of a special ellipse and an infinite string of nested square roots.
  • Triangles within Squares
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    Triangles Within Squares

    Age
    14 to 16
    Challenge level
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    Can you find a rule which relates triangular numbers to square numbers?
  • Fibonacci Fashion
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    Fibonacci Fashion

    Age
    16 to 18
    Challenge level
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    What have Fibonacci numbers to do with solutions of the quadratic equation x^2 - x - 1 = 0 ?
  • Pythagorean Fibs
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    Pythagorean Fibs

    Age
    16 to 18
    Challenge level
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    What have Fibonacci numbers got to do with Pythagorean triples?