Graph sketching

  • Guess the function
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    Guess the function

    Age
    16 to 18
    Challenge level
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    This task depends on learners sharing reasoning, listening to opinions, reflecting and pulling ideas together.

  • Area L
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    Area L

    Age
    16 to 18
    Challenge level
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    By sketching a graph of a continuous increasing function, can you prove a useful result about integrals?

  • Spot the difference
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    Spot the difference

    Age
    16 to 18
    Challenge level
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    If you plot these graphs they may look the same, but are they?
  • Brimful
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    Brimful

    Age
    16 to 18
    Challenge level
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    Can you find the volumes of the mathematical vessels?

  • Folium of Descartes
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    Folium of Descartes

    Age
    16 to 18
    Challenge level
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    Investigate the family of graphs given by the equation x^3+y^3=3axy for different values of the constant a.

  • Purple crocuses in the snow.
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    Polar flower

    Age
    16 to 18
    Challenge level
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    This polar equation is a quadratic. Plot the graph given by each factor to draw the flower.

  • Rational request
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    Rational request

    Age
    16 to 18
    Challenge level
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    Can you make a curve to match my friend's requirements?

  • 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.