
Year 10 Being curious
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problemImagine you were given the chance to win some money... and imagine you had nothing to lose...
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Take three from five
Caroline and James pick sets of five numbers. Charlie tries to find three that add together to make a multiple of three. Can they stop him?
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Pair products
Choose four consecutive whole numbers. Multiply the first and last numbers together. Multiply the middle pair together. What do you notice?
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Curvy areas
Have a go at creating these images based on circles. What do you notice about the areas of the different sections?
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Circles in quadrilaterals
Explore when it is possible to construct a circle which just touches all four sides of a quadrilateral.
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A little light thinking
Here is a machine with four coloured lights. Can you make two lights switch on at once? Three lights? All four lights?
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Last one standing
Imagine a room full of people who keep flipping coins until they get a tail. Will anyone get six heads in a row? -
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What's possible?
Many numbers can be expressed as the difference of two perfect squares. What do you notice about the numbers you CANNOT make?
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Arclets
Each of the following shapes is made from arcs of a circle of radius r. What is the perimeter of a shape with 3, 4, 5 and n "nodes".