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Giants
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Which is the bigger, 9^10 or 10^9 ? Which is the bigger, 99^100 or 100^99 ?
Rationals Between...
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What fractions can you find between the square roots of 65 and 67?
Rachel's Problem
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Is it true that $99^n$ has 2n digits and $999^n$ has 3n digits? Investigate!
Negative Power
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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 ?
Enriching Experience
Stage: 4 Challenge Level:
Find the five distinct digits N, R, I, C and H in the following nomogram
Staircase
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Solving the equation x^3 = 3 is easy but what about solving equations with a 'staircase' of powers?
Plus or Minus
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Make and prove a conjecture about the value of the product of the Fibonacci numbers $F_{n+1}F_{n-1}$.
Em'power'ed
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Find the smallest numbers a, b, and c such that: a^2 = 2b^3 = 3c^5 What can you say about other solutions to this problem?
Consecutive Squares
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The squares of any 8 consecutive numbers can be arranged into two sets of four numbers with the same sum. True of false?
Perfectly Square
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The sums of the squares of three related numbers is also a perfect square - can you explain why?
Number Rules - OK
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Can you convince me of each of the following: If a square number is multiplied by a square number the product is ALWAYS a square number...
Rational Roots
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Given that a, b and c are natural numbers show that if sqrt a+sqrt b is rational then it is a natural number. Extend this to 3 variables.
Smith and Jones
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Mr Smith and Mr Jones are two maths teachers. By asking questions, the answers to which may be right or wrong, Mr Jones is able to find the number of the house Mr Smith lives in... Or not!
Guesswork
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Ask a friend to choose a number between 1 and 63. By identifying which of the six cards contains the number they are thinking of it is easy to tell them what the number is.
Lost in Space
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How many ways are there to count 1 - 2 - 3 in the array of triangular numbers? What happens with larger arrays? Can you predict for any size array?
Weekly Challenge 34: Googol
Stage: 5 Short Challenge Level:
Find the smallest value for which a particular sequence is greater than a googol.
Unusual Long Division - Square Roots Before Calculators
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However did we manage before calculators? Is there an efficient way to do a square root if you have to do the work yourself?
Archimedes Numerical Roots
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How did Archimedes calculate the lengths of the sides of the polygons which needed him to be able to calculate square roots?
Archimedes and Numerical Roots
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The problem is how did Archimedes calculate the lengths of the sides of the polygons which needed him to be able to calculate square roots?
Equal Temperament
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The scale on a piano does something clever : the ratio (interval) between any adjacent points on the scale is equal. If you play any note, twelve points higher will be exactly an octave on.
The Root Cause
Stage: 5 Challenge Level:
Prove that if a is a natural number and the square root of a is rational, then it is a square number (an integer n^2 for some integer n.)
Root to Poly
Stage: 4 Challenge Level:
Find the polynomial p(x) with integer coefficients such that one solution of the equation p(x)=0 is $1+\sqrt 2+\sqrt 3$.
Napier's Location Arithmetic
Stage: 4 Challenge Level:
Have you seen this way of doing multiplication ?
Ab Surd Ity
Stage: 5 Challenge Level:
Find the value of sqrt(2+sqrt3)-sqrt(2-sqrt3)and then of cuberoot(2+sqrt5)+cuberoot(2-sqrt5).
Square Pair Circles
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Investigate the number of points with integer coordinates on circles with centres at the origin for which the square of the radius is a power of 5.
Function Pyramids
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A function pyramid is a structure where each entry in the pyramid is determined by the two entries below it. Can you figure out how the pyramid is generated?
Fit for Photocopying
Stage: 4 Challenge Level:
Explore the relationships between different paper sizes.
Route to Root
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A sequence of numbers x1, x2, x3, ... starts with x1 = 2, and, if you know any term xn, you can find the next term xn+1 using the formula: xn+1 = (xn + 3/xn)/2 . Calculate the first six terms of this. . . .
Take a Square
Stage: 4 Challenge Level:
Cut off three right angled isosceles triangles to produce a pentagon. With two lines, cut the pentagon into three parts which can be rearranged into another square.
Deep Roots
Stage: 4 Challenge Level:
Find integer solutions to: $\sqrt{a+b\sqrt{x}} + \sqrt{c+d.\sqrt{x}}=1$
Fibonacci Fashion
Stage: 5 Challenge Level:
What have Fibonacci numbers to do with solutions of the quadratic equation x^2 - x - 1 = 0 ?
Pythagorean Fibs
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What have Fibonacci numbers got to do with Pythagorean triples?
Power Countdown
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In this twist on the well-known Countdown numbers game, use your knowledge of Powers and Roots to make a target.
NRICH is part of the family of activities in the Millennium Mathematics Project.