Explaining, convincing and proving

  • Thousand Words
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    Thousand words

    Age
    16 to 18
    Challenge level
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    Here the diagram says it all. Can you find the diagram?

  • Road maker 2
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    Road maker 2

    Age
    16 to 18
    Challenge level
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    Can you work out where the blue-and-red brick roads end?
  • Transformations for 10
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    Transformations for 10

    Age
    16 to 18
    Challenge level
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    Explore the properties of matrix transformations with these 10 questions.

  • Dodgy proofs
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    Dodgy proofs

    Age
    16 to 18
    Challenge level
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    These proofs are wrong. Can you see why?

  • Interpolating polynomials
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    Interpolating polynomials

    Age
    16 to 18
    Challenge level
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    Given a set of points (x,y) with distinct x values, find a polynomial that goes through all of them, then prove some results about the existence and uniqueness of these polynomials.