Fractions

  • Same Answer
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    Same Answer

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    Aisha's division and subtraction calculations both gave the same answer! Can you find some more examples?

  • Sum Equals Product
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    Sum Equals Product

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    The sum of the numbers 4 and 1 [1/3] is the same as the product of 4 and 1 [1/3]; that is to say 4 + 1 [1/3] = 4 × 1 [1/3]. What other numbers have the sum equal to the product and can this be so for any whole numbers?

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    Plutarch's Boxes

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    According to Plutarch, the Greeks found all the rectangles with integer sides, whose areas are equal to their perimeters. Can you find them? What rectangular boxes, with integer sides, have their surface areas equal to their volumes?

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    3388

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    Using some or all of the operations of addition, subtraction, multiplication and division and using the digits 3, 3, 8 and 8 each once and only once make an expression equal to 24.

  • Egyptian Fractions
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    Egyptian Fractions

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    The Egyptians expressed all fractions as the sum of different unit fractions. Here is a chance to explore how they could have written different fractions.

  • Farey Sequences
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    Farey Sequences

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    There are lots of ideas to explore in these sequences of ordered fractions.

  • Peaches today, Peaches tomorrow...
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    Peaches Today, Peaches Tomorrow...

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    A monkey with peaches, keeps a fraction of them each day, gives the rest away, and then eats one. How long can his peaches last?

  • Twisting and Turning
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    Twisting and Turning

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    Take a look at the video and try to find a sequence of moves that will untangle the ropes.

  • Terminating or not
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    Terminating or Not

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    Is there a quick way to work out whether a fraction terminates or recurs when you write it as a decimal?

  • Tweedle dum and Tweedle Dee
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    Tweedle Dum and Tweedle Dee

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    11 to 14
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    Two brothers were left some money, amounting to an exact number of pounds, to divide between them. DEE undertook the division. "But your heap is larger than mine!" cried DUM...