Fibonacci Surprises
Play around with the Fibonacci sequence and discover some surprising results!
Play around with the Fibonacci sequence and discover some surprising results!
The farmers want to redraw their field boundary but keep the area the same. Can you advise them?
Imagine we have four bags containing numbers from a sequence. What numbers can we make now?
Imagine you have an unlimited number of four types of triangle. How many different tetrahedra can you make?
A train leaves on time. After it has gone 8 miles (at 33mph) the driver looks at his watch and sees that the hour hand is exactly over the minute hand. When did the train leave the station?
Can you find a cuboid that has a surface area of exactly 100 square units. Is there more than one? Can you find them all?
Use a single sheet of A4 paper and make a cylinder having the greatest possible volume. The cylinder must be closed off by a circle at each end.
Imagine starting with one yellow cube and covering it all over with a single layer of red cubes, and then covering that cube with a layer of blue cubes. How many red and blue cubes would you need?
Experiment with the interactivity of "rolling" regular polygons, and explore how the different positions of the dot affects its vertical and horizontal movement at each stage.
An aluminium can contains 330 ml of cola. If the can's diameter is 6 cm what is the can's height?