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Square Pair
Age 16 to 18 Challenge Level:
Explore the shape of a square after it is transformed by the action of a matrix.
Transformations for 10
Age 16 to 18 Challenge Level:
Explore the properties of matrix transformations with these 10 stimulating questions.
Fix Me or Crush Me
Age 16 to 18 Challenge Level:
Can you make matrices which will fix one lucky vector and crush another to zero?
Stringing it Out
Age 14 to 16 Challenge Level:
Explore the transformations and comment on what you find.
Matrix Meaning
Age 16 to 18 Challenge Level:
Explore the meaning behind the algebra and geometry of matrices with these 10 individual problems.
Rots and Refs
Age 16 to 18 Challenge Level:
Follow hints using a little coordinate geometry, plane geometry and trig to see how matrices are used to work on transformations of the plane.
8 Methods for Three by One
Age 14 to 18 Challenge Level:
This problem in geometry has been solved in no less than EIGHT ways by a pair of students. How would you solve it? How many of their solutions can you follow? How are they the same or different?. . . .
Two and Four Dimensional Numbers
Age 16 to 18 Challenge Level:
Investigate matrix models for complex numbers and quaternions.
The Golden Ratio, Fibonacci Numbers and Continued Fractions.
Age 14 to 16
An iterative method for finding the value of the Golden Ratio with explanations of how this involves the ratios of Fibonacci numbers and continued fractions.
Limiting Probabilities
Age 16 to 18 Challenge Level:
Given probabilities of taking paths in a graph from each node, use matrix multiplication to find the probability of going from one vertex to another in 2 stages, or 3, or 4 or even 100.
NRICH is part of the family of activities in the Millennium Mathematics Project.