Exploring and noticing

  • Where are you flying?
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    Where are you flying?

    Age
    14 to 18
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    Where do people fly to from London? What is good and bad about these representations?

  • Curve Hunter
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    Curve hunter

    Age
    14 to 18
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    This problem challenges you to sketch curves with different properties.

  • The Matrix
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    The matrix

    Age
    14 to 18
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    Explore a new way of multiplying with matrices.

  • A powerful Matrix
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    A powerful matrix

    Age
    14 to 18
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    What happens when you find the powers of this matrix?

  • Trapezium made of wooden tangram pieces, including a square and a parallelogram.
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    Quad in quad

    Age
    14 to 18
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    Join the midpoints of a quadrilateral to get a new quadrilateral. What is special about it?

  • Exploring cubic functions
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    Exploring cubic functions

    Age
    14 to 18
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    Quadratic graphs are very familiar, but what patterns can you explore with cubics?

  • Negative 3 to the power of negative 3.
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    Negative powers

    Age
    14 to 18
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    What does this number mean? Which order of 1, 2, 3 and 4 makes the highest value? Which makes the lowest?

  • Back fitter
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    Back fitter

    Age
    14 to 18
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    10 graphs of experimental data are given. Can you use a spreadsheet to find algebraic graphs which match them closely, and thus discover the formulae most likely to govern the underlying processes?

  • Square Pair
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    Square pair

    Age
    14 to 18
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    Explore the shape of a square after it is transformed by the action of a matrix.

  • Three by One
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    Three by one

    Age
    16 to 18
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    There are many different methods to solve this geometrical problem - how many can you find?