Year 10 Being resourceful

  • 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...

  • Vector Racer
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    Vector Racer

    Age
    11 to 16
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    The classic vector racing game.

  • 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?

  • Same length
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    Same Length

    Age
    11 to 16
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    Construct two equilateral triangles on a straight line. There are two lengths that look the same - can you prove it?

  • Warmsnug Double Glazing
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    Warmsnug Double Glazing

    Age
    14 to 16
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    How have "Warmsnug" arrived at the prices shown on their windows? Which window has been given an incorrect price?

  • Where is the dot?
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    Where Is the Dot?

    Age
    14 to 16
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    A dot starts at the point (1,0) and turns anticlockwise. Can you estimate the height of the dot after it has turned through 45 degrees? Can you calculate its height?

  • circles in quadrilaterals
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    Circles in Quadrilaterals

    Age
    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.

  • Slick Summing
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    Slick Summing

    Age
    14 to 16
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    Watch the video to see how Charlie works out the sum. Can you adapt his method?

  • 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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    Track Design

    Age
    14 to 16
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    Where should runners start the 200m race so that they have all run the same distance by the finish?

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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?

  • Picturing the world
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    Picturing the World

    Age
    14 to 16
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    How can we make sense of national and global statistics involving very large numbers?

  • Box plot match
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    Box Plot Match

    Age
    14 to 16
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    Match the cumulative frequency curves with their corresponding box plots.

  • Isosceles Seven
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    Isosceles Seven

    Age
    14 to 16
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    Is it possible to find the angles in this rather special isosceles triangle?

  • Standard Index Form Matching
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    Standard Index Form Matching

    Age
    14 to 16
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    Can you match these calculations in Standard Index Form with their answers?

  • 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?

  • Tiny Nines
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    Tiny Nines

    Age
    14 to 16
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    What do you notice about these families of recurring decimals?

  • Inscribed in a Circle
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    Inscribed in a Circle

    Age
    14 to 16
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    The area of a square inscribed in a circle with a unit radius is 2. What is the area of these other regular polygons inscribed in a circle with a unit radius?

  • 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?

  • Gutter
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    Gutter

    Age
    14 to 16
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    Manufacturers need to minimise the amount of material used to make their product. What is the best cross-section for a gutter?

  • Negatively Triangular
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    Negatively Triangular

    Age
    14 to 16
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    How many intersections do you expect from four straight lines ? Which three lines enclose a triangle with negative co-ordinates for every point ?

  • 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.

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    Simplifying Doughnut

    Age
    14 to 16
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    Can you match up these equivalent algebraic expressions?

  • 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?