Being resilient

  • Areas and Ratios
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    Areas and ratios

    Age
    16 to 18
    Challenge level
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    Do you have enough information to work out the area of the shaded quadrilateral?

  • Giants
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    Giants

    Age
    16 to 18
    Challenge level
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    Which is the bigger, 9^10 or 10^9 ? Which is the bigger, 99^100 or 100^99 ?

  • Brimful
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    Brimful

    Age
    16 to 18
    Challenge level
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    Can you find the volumes of the mathematical vessels?

  • Crazy Cannons
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    Crazy cannons

    Age
    16 to 18
    Challenge level
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    Two cannons are fired at one another and the cannonballs collide... what can you deduce?

  • Frosty the Snowman
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    Frosty the Snowman

    Age
    16 to 18
    Challenge level
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    Frosty the Snowman is melting. Can you use your knowledge of differential equations to find out how his volume changes as he shrinks?

  • The Derren Brown coin flipping scam
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    The Derren Brown coin flipping scam

    Age
    16 to 18
    Challenge level
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    Calculate probabilities associated with the Derren Brown coin scam in which he flipped 10 heads in a row.

  • Tri-angled Trig
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    Tri-angled trig

    Age
    16 to 18
    Challenge level
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    Can you justify this equation involving three angles?