Visualising and representing

  • Consecutive Seven
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    Consecutive Seven

    Age
    11 to 14
    Challenge level
    1 out of 3

    Can you arrange these numbers into 7 subsets, each of three numbers, so that when the numbers in each are added together, they make seven consecutive numbers?

  • Isosceles Triangles
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    Isosceles Triangles

    Age
    11 to 14
    Challenge level
    1 out of 3

    Draw some isosceles triangles with an area of $9cm^2$ and a vertex at (20,20). If all the vertices must have whole number coordinates, how many is it possible to draw?

  • Odds and Evens
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    Odds and Evens

    Age
    11 to 14
    Challenge level
    1 out of 3

    Are these games fair? How can you tell?

  • How far does it move?
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    How Far Does It Move?

    Age
    11 to 14
    Challenge level
    1 out of 3

    Experiment with the interactivity of "rolling" regular polygons, and explore how the different positions of the dot affects the distance it travels at each stage.

  • Round and round and round
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    Round and Round and Round

    Age
    11 to 14
    Challenge level
    1 out of 3

    Where will the point stop after it has turned through 30 000 degrees? I took out my calculator and typed 30 000 ÷ 360. How did this help?

  • Reflecting Lines
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    Reflecting Lines

    Age
    11 to 14
    Challenge level
    1 out of 3

    Investigate what happens to the equations of different lines when you reflect them in one of the axes. Try to predict what will happen. Explain your findings.

  • Translating Lines
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    Translating Lines

    Age
    11 to 14
    Challenge level
    1 out of 3

    Investigate what happens to the equation of different lines when you translate them. Try to predict what will happen. Explain your findings.

  • Diminishing Returns
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    Diminishing Returns

    Age
    11 to 14
    Challenge level
    1 out of 3

    How much of the square is coloured blue? How will the pattern continue?

  • Mixing Lemonade
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    Mixing Lemonade

    Age
    11 to 14
    Challenge level
    1 out of 3

    Can you work out which drink has the stronger flavour?

  • Your number was...
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    Your Number Was...

    Age
    11 to 14
    Challenge level
    1 out of 3

    Think of a number and follow my instructions. Tell me your answer, and I'll tell you what you started with! Can you explain how I know?