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Exploring and Noticing Structure - Advanced

Last Biscuit
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Last Biscuit

Can you find a strategy that ensures you get to take the last biscuit in this game?

Road maker
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Road maker

Age
14 to 18
Challenge level
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Which of these roads will satisfy a Munchkin builder?
Curve Hunter
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Curve Hunter

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

Vector journeys
problem
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Vector journeys

Age
14 to 18
Challenge level
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Charlie likes to go for walks around a square park, while Alison likes to cut across diagonally. Can you find relationships between the vectors they walk along?
Can you traverse it?
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Can you traverse it?

Age
14 to 18
Challenge level
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How can you decide if a graph is traversable?

Exploring cubic functions
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Exploring cubic functions

Age
14 to 18
Challenge level
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Quadratic graphs are very familiar, but what patterns can you explore with cubics?

Back fitter
problem
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Back fitter

Age
14 to 18
Challenge level
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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?

Root hunter
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Root hunter

Age
16 to 18
Challenge level
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In this short problem, try to find the location of the roots of some unusual functions by finding where they change sign.
Simply Graphs
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Simply Graphs

Age
16 to 18
Challenge level
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Look for the common features in these graphs. Which graphs belong together?
Inequalities
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Inequalities

Age
16 to 18
Challenge level
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Which of the statements must be true?

Polite Numbers
problem

Polite Numbers

Age
16 to 18
Challenge level
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A polite number can be written as the sum of two or more consecutive positive integers, for example 8+9+10=27 is a polite number. Can you find some more polite, and impolite, numbers?
Spinners
problem
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Spinners

Age
16 to 18
Challenge level
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How do scores on dice and factors of polynomials relate to each other?
Impossible triangles?
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Impossible triangles?

Age
16 to 18
Challenge level
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Which of these triangular jigsaws are impossible to finish?