Year P16 Being curious

  • Which spinners?
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    Which spinners?

    Age
    14 to 18
    Challenge level
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    Can you work out which spinners were used to generate the frequency charts?

  • Vector journeys
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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?

  • Negative Power
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    Negative powers

    Age
    14 to 18
    Challenge level
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    What does this number mean? Which order of 1, 2, 3 and 4 makes the highest value? Which makes the lowest?

  • Three by One
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    Three by one

    Age
    16 to 18
    Challenge level
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    There are many different methods to solve this geometrical problem - how many can you find?

  • Climbing Powers
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    Climbing powers

    Age
    16 to 18
    Challenge level
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    Does it make any difference how we write powers of powers? 

  • Folium of Descartes
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    Folium of Descartes

    Age
    16 to 18
    Challenge level
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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.