Year 10 Being curious

  • A Chance to Win?
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    A Chance to Win?

    Age
    11 to 14
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    Imagine you were given the chance to win some money... and imagine you had nothing to lose...

  • Arithmagons
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    Arithmagons

    Age
    11 to 16
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    Can you find the values at the vertices when you know the values on the edges?

  • Take Three From Five
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    Take Three From Five

    Age
    11 to 16
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    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?

  • Pair Products
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    Pair Products

    Age
    14 to 16
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    Choose four consecutive whole numbers. Multiply the first and last numbers together. Multiply the middle pair together. What do you notice?

  • Curvy areas
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    Curvy Areas

    Age
    14 to 16
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    Have a go at creating these images based on circles. What do you notice about the areas of the different sections?

  • circles in quadrilaterals
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    Circles in Quadrilaterals

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    14 to 16
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    Explore when it is possible to construct a circle which just touches all four sides of a quadrilateral.

  • A little light thinking
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    A Little Light Thinking

    Age
    14 to 16
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    Here is a machine with four coloured lights. Can you make two lights switch on at once? Three lights? All four lights?

  • Last one standing
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    Last One Standing

    Age
    14 to 16
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    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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    Who's the Winner?

    Age
    14 to 16
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    When two closely matched teams play each other, what is the most likely result?

  • Steel Cables
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    Steel Cables

    Age
    14 to 16
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    Some students have been working out the number of strands needed for different sizes of cable. Can you make sense of their solutions?

  • Olympic Triathlon
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    Olympic Triathlon

    Age
    14 to 16
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    Is it the fastest swimmer, the fastest runner or the fastest cyclist who wins the Olympic Triathlon?

  • Fair Shares?
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    Fair Shares?

    Age
    14 to 16
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    A mother wants to share some money by giving each child in turn a lump sum plus a fraction of the remainder. How can she do this to share the money out equally?

  • What's Possible?
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    What's Possible?

    Age
    14 to 16
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    Many numbers can be expressed as the difference of two perfect squares. What do you notice about the numbers you CANNOT make?

  • Arclets
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    Arclets

    Age
    14 to 16
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    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".

  • Pick's Theorem
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    Pick's Theorem

    Age
    14 to 16
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    Polygons drawn on square dotty paper have dots on their perimeter (p) and often internal (i) ones as well. Find a relationship between p, i and the area of the polygons.

  • Painted Cube
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    Painted Cube

    Age
    14 to 16
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    Imagine a large cube made from small red cubes being dropped into a pot of yellow paint. How many of the small cubes will have yellow paint on their faces?

  • For richer for poorer
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    For Richer for Poorer

    Age
    14 to 16
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    Charlie has moved between countries and the average income of both has increased. How can this be so?

  • Speeding boats
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    Speeding Boats

    Age
    14 to 16
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    Two boats travel up and down a lake. Can you picture where they will cross if you know how fast each boat is travelling?

  • Mystic Rose
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    Mystic Rose

    Age
    14 to 16
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    Use the animation to help you work out how many lines are needed to draw mystic roses of different sizes.

  • Filling the gaps
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    Filling the Gaps

    Age
    14 to 16
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    Which numbers can we write as a sum of square numbers?

  • Latin Numbers
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    Latin Numbers

    Age
    14 to 16
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    Can you create a Latin Square from multiples of a six digit number?

  • Compare Areas
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    Compare Areas

    Age
    14 to 16
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    Which has the greatest area, a circle or a square, inscribed in an isosceles right angle triangle?

  • Which spinners?
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    Which Spinners?

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