Exploring and noticing

  • Making Waves
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    Making Waves

    Age
    16 to 18
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    Which is larger cos(sin x) or sin(cos x) ? Does this depend on x ?

  • Pattern Sniffing
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    Pattern Sniffing

    This article for primary teachers outlines how we can encourage children to create, identify, extend and explain number patterns and why being able to do so is useful.
  • Learning Mathematics Through Games Series: 4. From Strategy Games
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    Learning Mathematics Through Games Series: 4. From Strategy Games

    Basic strategy games are particularly suitable as starting points for investigations. Players instinctively try to discover a winning strategy, and usually the best way to do this is to analyse the outcomes of series of 'moves'. With a little encouragement from the teacher, a mathematical investigation is born.

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    Investigating Epidemics

    11 to 16
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    Simple models which help us to investigate how epidemics grow and die out.

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