There's a Limit

Explore the continued fraction: 2+3/(2+3/(2+3/2+...)) What do you notice when successive terms are taken? What happens to the terms if the fraction goes on indefinitely?

Not Continued Fractions

Which rational numbers cannot be written in the form x + 1/(y + 1/z) where x, y and z are integers?

Comparing Continued Fractions

Which of these continued fractions is bigger and why?

And So on - and on -and On

Age 16 to 18 Challenge Level:

Let $$ f_{0}(x)= \frac{1}{1-x}$$ and $$f_{n}(x)=f_{0}(f_{n-1}(x))$$ where $n = 1,2, 3, 4, ...$

Evaluate $f_{2000}(2000)$

Cyclic functions. Inequalities. Mathematical reasoning & proof. Calculating with fractions. Quadratic equations. Creating and manipulating expressions and formulae. Making and proving conjectures. Recurrence relations. Polynomial functions and their roots. Generalising.

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And So on - and on -and On

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