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Creating expressions/formulae. Small software. smartphone. Patterned numbers. Pinboard/geoboard. Squares. Mathematical reasoning & proof. Formulae. Generalising. Visualising.There are 17 results
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Pinned Squares
Stage: 3 Challenge Level: 
The diagram shows a 5 by 5 geoboard with 25 pins set out in a square array. Squares are made by stretching rubber bands round specific pins. What is the total number of squares that can be made on a. . . .
AP Rectangles
Stage: 3 Challenge Level:
An AP rectangle is one whose area is numerically equal to its perimeter. If you are given the length of a side can you always find an AP rectangle with one side the given length?
Triangles Within Pentagons
Stage: 4 Challenge Level:
Show that all pentagonal numbers are one third of a triangular number.
Triangles Within Triangles
Stage: 4 Challenge Level:
Can you find a rule which connects consecutive triangular numbers?
Icosagram
Stage: 3 Challenge Level:
Draw a pentagon with all the diagonals. This is called a pentagram. How many diagonals are there? How many diagonals are there in a hexagram, heptagram, ... Does any pattern occur when looking at. . . .
Triangles Within Squares
Stage: 4 Challenge Level:
Can you find a rule which relates triangular numbers to square numbers?
For What?
Stage: 4 Challenge Level:
Prove that if the integer n is divisible by 4 then it can be written as the difference of two squares.
On the Importance of Pedantry
Stage: 3, 4 and 5
A introduction to how patterns can be deceiving, and what is and is not a proof.
Ordered Sums
Stage: 4 Challenge Level:
Let a(n) be the number of ways of expressing the integer n as an ordered sum of 1's and 2's. Let b(n) be the number of ways of expressing n as an ordered sum of integers greater than 1. (i) Calculate. . . .
Screen Shot
Stage: 4 Challenge Level:
A moveable screen slides along a mirrored corridor towards a centrally placed light source. A ray of light from that source is directed towards a wall of the corridor, which it strikes at 45 degrees. . . .
More Quadratic Transformations
Stage: 4 Challenge Level:
Here are some more quadratic functions to explore. How are their graphs related?
Quadratic Transformations
Stage: 4 Challenge Level:
Explore the two quadratic functions and find out how their graphs are related.
In Particular
Stage: 4 Challenge Level:
Write 100 as the sum of two positive integers, one divisible by 7 and the other divisible by 11. Then find formulas giving all the solutions to 7x + 11y = 100 where x and y are integers.
Hot Pursuit
Stage: 3 Challenge Level:
The sum of the first 'n' natural numbers is a 3 digit number in which all the digits are the same. How many numbers have been summed?
What's That Graph?
Stage: 4 Challenge Level:
Can you work out which processes are represented by the graphs?
Training Schedule
Stage: 4 Challenge Level:
The heptathlon is an athletics competition consisting of 7 events. Can you make sense of the scoring system in order to advise a heptathlete on the best way to reach her target?
First Forward Into Logo 12: Puzzling Sums
Stage: 3, 4 and 5 Challenge Level:
Can you puzzle out what sequences these Logo programs will give? Then write your own Logo programs to generate sequences.
NRICH is part of the family of activities in the Millennium Mathematics Project.