Visualising and representing

  • Curve Hunter
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    Curve Hunter

    Age
    14 to 18
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    This problem challenges you to sketch curves with different properties.

  • Iff
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    Iff

    Age
    14 to 18
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    Take a triangular number, multiply it by 8 and add 1. What is special about your answer? Can you prove it?

  • 3D Treasure Hunt
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    3D Treasure Hunt

    Age
    14 to 18
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    Some treasure has been hidden in a three-dimensional grid! Can you work out a strategy to find it as efficiently as possible?

  • Back fitter
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    Back Fitter

    Age
    14 to 18
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    10 graphs of experimental data are given. Can you use a spreadsheet to find algebraic graphs which match them closely, and thus discover the formulae most likely to govern the underlying processes?

  • What's that graph?
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    What's That Graph?

    Age
    14 to 18
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    Can you work out which processes are represented by the graphs?

  • Kite in a Square
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    Kite in a Square

    Age
    14 to 18
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    Can you make sense of the three methods to work out what fraction of the total area is shaded?

  • Vanishing point
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    Vanishing Point

    Age
    14 to 18
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    How can visual patterns be used to prove sums of series?
  • Always Perfect
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    Always Perfect

    Age
    14 to 18
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    Show that if you add 1 to the product of four consecutive numbers the answer is ALWAYS a perfect square.

  • Between
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    Between

    Age
    16 to 18
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    If you know some points on a line, can you work out other points in between?