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Time to Evolve 2

Age 16 to 18 Challenge Level:

How is the length of time between the birth of an animal and the birth of its great great ... great grandparent distributed?

Take Ten Sticks

Age 11 to 16 Challenge Level:

Take ten sticks in heaps any way you like. Make a new heap using one from each of the heaps. By repeating that process could the arrangement 7 - 1 - 1 - 1 ever turn up, except by starting with it?

Excel Technique: Composite Bar Charts

Age 11 to 16 Challenge Level:

Learn how to use composite bar charts in Excel.

Excel Technique: Conditional Formatting

Age 11 to 16 Challenge Level:

Learn how to use conditional formatting to create attractive interactive spreadsheets in Excel.

Excel Investigation: Number Pyramids

Age 11 to 16 Challenge Level:

Use Excel to create some number pyramids. How are the numbers in the base line related to each other? Investigate using the spreadsheet.

Excel Investigation: Pascal Multiples

Age 11 to 16 Challenge Level:

This spreadsheet highlights multiples of numbers up to 20 in Pascal's triangle. What patterns can you see?

Excel Investigation: Ring on a String

Age 11 to 16 Challenge Level:

This investigation uses Excel to optimise a characteristic of interest.

Excel Technique: Triangular Arrays by Turning Off Zeros

Age 11 to 16 Challenge Level:

Learn how to use Excel to create triangular arrays.

Excel Investigation: Multiples of Three

Age 11 to 16 Challenge Level:

Use Excel to investigate digit sums of multiples of three. Can you explain your findings?

The Legacy

Age 14 to 16 Challenge Level:

Your school has been left a million pounds in the will of an ex- pupil. What model of investment and spending would you use in order to ensure the best return on the money?

Excel Technique: LOOKUP Functions

Age 11 to 16 Challenge Level:

Learn how to use lookup functions to create exciting interactive Excel spreadsheets.

Excel Investigation: Target Decimal

Age 11 to 16 Challenge Level:

Use an Excel spreadsheet to approximate a decimal using trial and improvement.

Excel Technique: Logic Tests

Age 11 to 16 Challenge Level:

Learn how to use logic tests to create interactive resources using Excel.

Excel Investigation: Fraction Combinations

Age 11 to 16 Challenge Level:

Choose four numbers and make two fractions. Use an Excel spreadsheet to investigate their properties. Can you generalise?

Excel Technique: Using Paste Special to Lift a Copy of Values

Age 11 to 16 Challenge Level:

Learn how to use advanced pasting techniques to create interactive spreadsheets.

Excel Technique: LCM & HCF (or GCD)

Age 11 to 16 Challenge Level:

Learn how to use the Excel functions LCM and GCD.

Excel Investigation: Happy Numbers

Age 11 to 16 Challenge Level:

Take any whole number between 1 and 999, add the squares of the digits to get a new number. Use a spreadsheet to investigate this sequence.

Excel Investigation: Beads

Age 11 to 16 Challenge Level:

Use Excel to investigate remainders and divisors. Was your result predictable?

Excel Investigation: Pythagorean Triples

Age 11 to 16 Challenge Level:

Use Excel to find sets of three numbers so that the sum of the squares of the first two is equal to the square of the third.

Excel Technique: Making a Table for a Function of Two Independent

Age 11 to 16 Challenge Level:

Learn how to make a simple table using Excel.

Getting to Know Excel

Age 11 to 16 Challenge Level:

A number of useful techniques that can extend your use of Excel.

Excel Investigation: the Difference of Two (same) Powers

Age 11 to 16 Challenge Level:

If you take two integers and look at the difference between the square of each value, there is a nice relationship between the original numbers and that difference. Can you find the pattern using. . . .

Excel Technique: Inserting an Increment Button

Age 11 to 16 Challenge Level:

Learn how to use increment buttons and scroll bars to create interactive Excel resources.

Excel Investigation: Power Crazy

Age 11 to 16 Challenge Level:

When is 7^n + 3^n a multiple of 10? Use Excel to investigate, and try to explain what you find out.

Excel Investigation: Planks

Age 11 to 16 Challenge Level:

I have an unlimited supply of planks, of lengths 7 and 9 units. Putting planks end to end, what total lengths can be achieved? Use Excel to investigate.

Excel Investigation: Difference Tuples

Age 11 to 16 Challenge Level:

Use an Excel spreadsheet to investigate differences between four numbers. Which set of start numbers give the longest run before becoming 0 0 0 0?

Excel Investigation: Sums of Consecutive Numbers

Age 11 to 16 Challenge Level:

Excel Investigation: More Beads

Age 11 to 16 Challenge Level:

A heap of beads was shared out by a professional bead sharer. Use the information given to find out how many beads there were at the start.

Excel Interactive Resource: Make a Copy

Age 11 to 16 Challenge Level:

Investigate factors and multiples using this interactive Excel spreadsheet. Use the increment buttons for experimentation and feedback.

Tree Tops

Age 14 to 16 Challenge Level:

Can you make sense of information about trees in order to maximise the profits of a forestry company?

Any Win for Tennis?

Age 16 to 18 Challenge Level:

What are your chances of winning a game of tennis?

Succession in Randomia

Age 16 to 18 Challenge Level:

By tossing a coin one of three princes is chosen to be the next King of Randomia. Does each prince have an equal chance of taking the throne?

There's Always One Isn't There

Age 14 to 16 Challenge Level:

Take any pair of numbers, say 9 and 14. Take the larger number, fourteen, and count up in 14s. Then divide each of those values by the 9, and look at the remainders.

Peeling the Apple or the Cone That Lost Its Head

Age 14 to 16 Challenge Level:

How much peel does an apple have?

Peaches in General

Age 14 to 16 Challenge Level:

It's like 'Peaches Today, Peaches Tomorrow' but interestingly generalized.

Minus One Two Three

Age 14 to 16 Challenge Level:

Substitute -1, -2 or -3, into an algebraic expression and you'll get three results. Is it possible to tell in advance which of those three will be the largest ?

Funnel

Age 14 to 16 Challenge Level:

A plastic funnel is used to pour liquids through narrow apertures. What shape funnel would use the least amount of plastic to manufacture for any specific volume ?

Zeller's Birthday

Age 14 to 16 Challenge Level:

What day of the week were you born on? Do you know? Here's a way to find out.

Training Schedule

Age 14 to 16 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?