Conjecturing and generalising

  • Isometric Areas
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    Isometric Areas

    Age
    11 to 14
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    1 out of 3

    We usually use squares to measure area, but what if we use triangles instead?

  • Climbing Complexity
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    Climbing Complexity

    Age
    11 to 14
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    1 out of 3

    In the 2020 Olympic Games, sport climbing was introduced for the first time, and something very interesting happened with the scoring system. Can you find out what was interesting about it?

  • Days and Dates
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    Days and Dates

    Age
    11 to 14
    Challenge level
    1 out of 3

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

  • Blue and White
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    Blue and White

    Age
    11 to 14
    Challenge level
    1 out of 3

    Identical squares of side one unit contain some circles shaded blue. In which of the four examples is the shaded area greatest?

  • A green frog.
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    Frogs

    Age
    11 to 14
    Challenge level
    1 out of 3

    How many moves does it take to swap over some red and blue frogs? Do you have a method?

  • Largest product
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    Largest Product

    Age
    11 to 14
    Challenge level
    1 out of 3

    Which set of numbers that add to 100 have the largest product?

  • Picturing Triangular Numbers
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    Picturing Triangular Numbers

    Age
    11 to 14
    Challenge level
    1 out of 3

    What do you notice about the sum of two identical triangular numbers?

  • Picturing Square Numbers
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    Picturing Square Numbers

    Age
    11 to 14
    Challenge level
    1 out of 3

    Square numbers can be represented as the sum of consecutive odd numbers. What is the sum of 1 + 3 + ..... + 149 + 151 + 153?

  • Tilted Squares
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    Tilted Squares

    Age
    11 to 14
    Challenge level
    1 out of 3

    It's easy to work out the areas of most squares that we meet, but what if they were tilted?

  • Partitioning revisited
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    Partitioning Revisited

    Age
    11 to 14
    Challenge level
    1 out of 3

    We can show that (x + 1)² = x² + 2x + 1 by considering the area of an (x + 1) by (x + 1) square. Show in a similar way that (x + 2)² = x² + 4x + 4