Explaining, convincing and proving

  • Three consecutive odd numbers
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    Three consecutive odd numbers

    Age
    11 to 16
    Challenge level
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    How many sets of three consecutive odd numbers can you find, in which all three numbers are prime?
  • Adding odd numbers
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    Adding odd numbers

    Age
    11 to 16
    Challenge level
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    Is there a quick and easy way to calculate the sum of the first 100 odd numbers?
  • Cyclic Quadrilaterals Proof
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    Cyclic quadrilaterals proof

    Age
    11 to 16
    Challenge level
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    Can you prove that the opposite angles of cyclic quadrilaterals add to $180^\circ$?

  • Circumference angles
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    Circumference angles

    Age
    11 to 16
    Challenge level
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    Can you prove the angle properties described by some of the circle theorems?

  • Same length
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    Same length

    Age
    11 to 16
    Challenge level
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    Construct two equilateral triangles on a straight line. There are two lengths that look the same - can you prove it?

  • Robotic Rotations
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    Robotic rotations

    Age
    11 to 16
    Challenge level
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    How did the the rotation robot make these patterns?

  • problem

    Marbles in a box

    Age
    11 to 16
    Challenge level
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    How many winning lines can you make in a three-dimensional version of noughts and crosses?

  • Take Three From Five
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    Take three from five

    Age
    11 to 16
    Challenge level
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    Caroline and James pick sets of five numbers. Charlie tries to find three that add together to make a multiple of three. Can they stop him?

  • Tourism
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    Tourism

    Age
    11 to 16
    Challenge level
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    If you can copy a network without lifting your pen off the paper and without drawing any line twice, then it is traversable. Decide which of these diagrams are traversable.