Creating and manipulating expressions and formulae

There are 198 NRICH Mathematical resources connected to Creating and manipulating expressions and formulae
Pythagoras Proofs
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Pythagoras Proofs

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11 to 16
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Can you make sense of these three proofs of Pythagoras' Theorem?
What does it all add up to?
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What does it all add up to?

Age
11 to 18
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If you take four consecutive numbers and add them together, the answer will always be even. What else do you notice?
Always Perfect
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Always Perfect

Age
14 to 18
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Show that if you add 1 to the product of four consecutive numbers the answer is ALWAYS a perfect square.
The Number Jumbler
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The Number Jumbler

Age
7 to 14
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The Number Jumbler can always work out your chosen symbol. Can you work out how?
Regular Hexagon Loops
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Regular Hexagon Loops

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11 to 14
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Make some loops out of regular hexagons. What rules can you discover?
Square Number Surprises
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Square Number Surprises

Age
14 to 16
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There are unexpected discoveries to be made about square numbers...
Fibonacci Surprises
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Fibonacci Surprises

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11 to 14
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Play around with the Fibonacci sequence and discover some surprising results!
Puzzling Place Value
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Puzzling Place Value

Age
14 to 16
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Can you explain what is going on in these puzzling number tricks?
Reversals
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Reversals

Age
11 to 14
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Where should you start, if you want to finish back where you started?
Beach Huts
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Beach Huts

Age
11 to 14
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Can you figure out how sequences of beach huts are generated?