Visualising and representing

  • Circles ad infinitum
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    Circles Ad Infinitum

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    16 to 18
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    A circle is inscribed in an equilateral triangle. Smaller circles touch it and the sides of the triangle, the process continuing indefinitely. What is the sum of the areas of all the circles?

  • Areas and Ratios
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    Areas and Ratios

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    16 to 18
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    Do you have enough information to work out the area of the shaded quadrilateral?

  • Orthogonal Circle
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    Orthogonal Circle

    Age
    16 to 18
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    Given any three non intersecting circles in the plane find another circle or straight line which cuts all three circles orthogonally.

  • Cubestick
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    Cubestick

    Age
    16 to 18
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    Stick some cubes together to make a cuboid. Find two of the angles by as many different methods as you can devise.

  • Loch Ness
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    Loch Ness

    Age
    16 to 18
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    Draw graphs of the sine and modulus functions and explain the humps.

  • Differential equation matcher
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    Differential Equation Matcher

    Age
    16 to 18
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    Match the descriptions of physical processes to these differential equations.

  • Aim high
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    Aim High

    Age
    16 to 18
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    How do you choose your planting levels to minimise the total loss at harvest time?

  • Folium of Descartes
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    Folium of Descartes

    Age
    16 to 18
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    Investigate the family of graphs given by the equation x^3+y^3=3axy for different values of the constant a.

  • Matchsticks
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    Matchsticks

    Age
    7 to 11
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    Reasoning about the number of matches needed to build squares that share their sides.
  • Coke machine
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    Coke Machine

    Age
    14 to 16
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    The coke machine in college takes 50 pence pieces. It also takes a certain foreign coin of traditional design...