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Cuisenaire spirals

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Can you make arrange Cuisenaire rods so that they make a 'spiral' with right angles at the corners?

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Tangles

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A personal investigation of Conway's Rational Tangles. What were the interesting questions that needed to be asked, and where did they lead?

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Excel technique: making a table for a function of two independent

Learn how to make a simple table using Excel.

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What are you plotting?

7 to 11

Investigate the positions of points which have particular x and y coordinates. What do you notice?

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Three examples of particular tilings of the plane, namely those where - NOT all corners of the tile are vertices of the tiling. You might like to produce an elegant program to replicate one or all of these.

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Golden ratio

16 to 18

Solve an equation involving the Golden Ratio phi where the unknown occurs as a power of phi.

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LOGO challenge - blob

14 to 18

Working with recursion. What is going on how does each iteration feen into the next? All within a geometric setting.

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Proof sorter - circumference angles

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Days and dates

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Investigate how you can work out what day of the week your birthday will be on next year, and the year after...

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Designing table mats

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Formulate and investigate a simple mathematical model for the design of a table mat.

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Cuisenaire spirals

Tangles

Excel technique: making a table for a function of two independent

What are you plotting?

LOGO challenge - tilings

Golden ratio

LOGO challenge - blob

Proof sorter - circumference angles

Days and dates

Designing table mats