Resources tagged with: Surds

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Golden Mathematics

Age 16 to 18

A voyage of discovery through a sequence of challenges exploring properties of the Golden Ratio and Fibonacci numbers.

Impossible Square?

Age 16 to 18 Challenge Level:

Can you make a square from these triangles?

Ab Surd Ity

Age 16 to 18 Challenge Level:

Find the value of sqrt(2+sqrt3)-sqrt(2-sqrt3)and then of cuberoot(2+sqrt5)+cuberoot(2-sqrt5).

Fit for Photocopying

Age 14 to 16 Challenge Level:

Explore the relationships between different paper sizes.

Surds

Age 14 to 16 Challenge Level:

Find the exact values of x, y and a satisfying the following system of equations: 1/(a+1) = a - 1 x + y = 2a x = ay

Pentabuild

Age 16 to 18 Challenge Level:

Explain how to construct a regular pentagon accurately using a straight edge and compass.

Plus or Minus

Age 16 to 18 Challenge Level:

Make and prove a conjecture about the value of the product of the Fibonacci numbers $F_{n+1}F_{n-1}$.

In Between

Age 16 to 18 Challenge Level:

Can you find the solution to this algebraic inequality?

Pythagorean Fibs

Age 16 to 18 Challenge Level:

What have Fibonacci numbers got to do with Pythagorean triples?

Golden Eggs

Age 16 to 18 Challenge Level:

Find a connection between the shape of a special ellipse and an infinite string of nested square roots.

Fibonacci Fashion

Age 16 to 18 Challenge Level:

What have Fibonacci numbers to do with solutions of the quadratic equation x^2 - x - 1 = 0 ?

The Root of the Problem

Age 14 to 18 Challenge Level:

Find the sum of this series of surds.

Golden Construction

Age 16 to 18 Challenge Level:

Draw a square and an arc of a circle and construct the Golden rectangle. Find the value of the Golden Ratio.

Bina-ring

Age 16 to 18 Challenge Level:

Investigate powers of numbers of the form (1 + sqrt 2).

Strange Rectangle 2

Age 16 to 18 Challenge Level:

Find the exact values of some trig. ratios from this rectangle in which a cyclic quadrilateral cuts off four right angled triangles.

Irrational Arithmagons

Age 16 to 18 Challenge Level:

Can you work out the irrational numbers that belong in the circles to make the multiplication arithmagon correct?

Baby Circle

Age 16 to 18 Challenge Level:

A small circle fits between two touching circles so that all three circles touch each other and have a common tangent? What is the exact radius of the smallest circle?

Cube Roots

Age 16 to 18 Challenge Level:

Evaluate without a calculator: (5 sqrt2 + 7)^{1/3} - (5 sqrt2 - 7)^1/3}.

Absurdity Again

Age 16 to 18 Challenge Level:

What is the value of the integers a and b where sqrt(8-4sqrt3) = sqrt a - sqrt b?