Visualising and representing

  • A Tilted Square
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    A Tilted Square

    Age
    14 to 16
    Challenge level
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    The opposite vertices of a square have coordinates (a,b) and (c,d). What are the coordinates of the other vertices?

  • Packing 3D shapes
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    Packing 3D Shapes

    Age
    14 to 16
    Challenge level
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    What 3D shapes occur in nature. How efficiently can you pack these shapes together?

  • Can you traverse it?
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    Can You Traverse It?

    Age
    14 to 18
    Challenge level
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    How can you decide if a graph is traversable?

  • Curve Hunter
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    Curve Hunter

    Age
    14 to 18
    Challenge level
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    This problem challenges you to sketch curves with different properties.

  • 3D Treasure Hunt
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    3D Treasure Hunt

    Age
    14 to 18
    Challenge level
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    Some treasure has been hidden in a three-dimensional grid! Can you work out a strategy to find it as efficiently as possible?

  • Vanishing point
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    Vanishing Point

    Age
    14 to 18
    Challenge level
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    How can visual patterns be used to prove sums of series?
  • Between
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    Between

    Age
    16 to 18
    Challenge level
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    If you know some points on a line, can you work out other points in between?

  • Set Square
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    Set Square

    Age
    16 to 18
    Challenge level
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    A triangle PQR, right angled at P, slides on a horizontal floor with Q and R in contact with perpendicular walls. What is the locus of P?

  • Fitting flat shapes
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    Fitting Flat Shapes

    Age
    16 to 18
    Challenge level
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    How efficiently can various flat shapes be fitted together?
  • Curve match
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    Curve Match

    Age
    16 to 18
    Challenge level
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    Which curve is which, and how would you plan a route to pass between them?