Fractions

  • Tiny Nines
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    Tiny nines

    Age
    14 to 16
    Challenge level
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    What do you notice about these families of recurring decimals?

  • Repetitiously
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    Repetitiously

    Age
    14 to 16
    Challenge level
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    Can you express every recurring decimal as a fraction?

  • Harmonic Triangle
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    Harmonic triangle

    Age
    14 to 16
    Challenge level
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    Can you see how to build a harmonic triangle? Can you work out the next two rows?

  • Not Continued Fractions
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    Not continued fractions

    Age
    14 to 18
    Challenge level
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    Which rational numbers cannot be written in the form x + 1/(y + 1/z) where x, y and z are integers?
  • All tangled up
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    All tangled up

    Age
    14 to 18
    Challenge level
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    Can you tangle yourself up and reach any fraction?

  • Look before you leap
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    Look before you leap

    Age
    16 to 18
    Challenge level
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    Relate these algebraic expressions to geometrical diagrams.
  • A Swiss sum
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    A swiss sum

    Age
    16 to 18
    Challenge level
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    Can you use the given image to say something about the sum of an infinite series?