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A square of area 3 square units cannot be drawn on a 2D grid so that each of its vertices have integer coordinates, but can it be drawn on a 3D grid? Investigate squares that can be drawn.
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Today's Date - 01/06/2009
What do you notice about the date 03.06.09? Or 08.01.09? This
challenge invites you to investigate some interesting dates
yourself.
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Flipping Twisty Matrices
Investigate the transformations of the plane given by the 2 by 2 matrices with entries taking all combinations of values 0, -1 and +1.
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Making Spirals
Can you make a spiral for yourself? Explore some different ways to create your own spiral pattern and explore differences between different spirals.
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How Do You React?
To investigate the relationship between the distance the ruler drops and the time taken, we need to do some mathematical modelling...
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Which Team Will Win?
A practical experiment which will introduce students to tree diagrams, and help them to understand that outcomes may not be equally likely.
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Parabolic Patterns
The illustration shows the graphs of fifteen functions. Two of them have equations $y=x^2$ and $y=-(x-4)^2$. Find the equations of all the other graphs.