Year 11+ Visualising and representing

  • Triathlon and Fitness
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    Triathlon and Fitness

    Age
    11 to 14
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    The triathlon is a physically gruelling challenge. Can you work out which athlete burnt the most calories?

  • Tourism
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    Tourism

    Age
    11 to 16
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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.

  • Sitting Pretty
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    Sitting Pretty

    Age
    14 to 16
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    A circle of radius r touches two sides of a right angled triangle, sides x and y, and has its centre on the hypotenuse. Can you prove the formula linking x, y and r?

  • Perfectly Square
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    Perfectly Square

    Age
    14 to 16
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    The sums of the squares of three related numbers is also a perfect square - can you explain why?

  • Areas of parallelograms
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    Areas of Parallelograms

    Age
    14 to 16
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    Can you find the area of a parallelogram defined by two vectors?

  • Fill Me Up Too
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    Fill Me Up Too

    Age
    14 to 16
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    In Fill Me Up we invited you to sketch graphs as vessels are filled with water. Can you work out the equations of the graphs?

  • Ladder and Cube
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    Ladder and Cube

    Age
    14 to 16
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    A 1 metre cube has one face on the ground and one face against a wall. A 4 metre ladder leans against the wall and just touches the cube. How high is the top of the ladder above the ground?

  • Bendy Quad
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    Bendy Quad

    Age
    14 to 16
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    Four rods are hinged at their ends to form a convex quadrilateral. Investigate the different shapes that the quadrilateral can take. Be patient this problem may be slow to load.

  • Hexy-Metry
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    Hexy-Metry

    Age
    14 to 16
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    A hexagon, with sides alternately a and b units in length, is inscribed in a circle. How big is the radius of the circle?

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    Funnel

    Age
    14 to 16
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    A plastic funnel is used to pour liquids through narrow apertures. What shape funnel would use the least amount of plastic to manufacture for any specific volume ?

  • Partly Circles
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    Partly Circles

    Age
    14 to 16
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    What is the same and what is different about these circle questions? What connections can you make?

  • Vector walk
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    Vector Walk

    Age
    14 to 18
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    Starting with two basic vector steps, which destinations can you reach on a vector walk?

  • Summing geometric progressions
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    Summing Geometric Progressions

    Age
    14 to 18
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    Watch the video to see how to sum the sequence. Can you adapt the method to sum other sequences?

  • Iff
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    Iff

    Age
    14 to 18
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    Take a triangular number, multiply it by 8 and add 1. What is special about your answer? Can you prove it?

  • Always Perfect
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    Always Perfect

    Age
    14 to 18
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    Show that if you add 1 to the product of four consecutive numbers the answer is ALWAYS a perfect square.

  • Curve fitter
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    Curve Fitter

    Age
    14 to 18
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    This problem challenges you to find cubic equations which satisfy different conditions.

  • Back fitter
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    Back Fitter

    Age
    14 to 18
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    10 graphs of experimental data are given. Can you use a spreadsheet to find algebraic graphs which match them closely, and thus discover the formulae most likely to govern the underlying processes?

  • What's that graph?
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    What's That Graph?

    Age
    14 to 18
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    Can you work out which processes are represented by the graphs?

  • Three by One
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    Three by One

    Age
    16 to 18
    Challenge level
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    There are many different methods to solve this geometrical problem - how many can you find?

  • Cubestick
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    Cubestick

    Age
    16 to 18
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    Stick some cubes together to make a cuboid. Find two of the angles by as many different methods as you can devise.