Year 9 Visualising and representing

  • A cardboard carton of cherries.
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    Fruity Totals

    Age
    7 to 16
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    In this interactivity each fruit has a hidden value. Can you deduce what each one is worth?

  • Days and Dates
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    Days and Dates

    Age
    11 to 14
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    Investigate how you can work out what day of the week your birthday will be on next year, and the year after...

  • Blue and White
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    Blue and White

    Age
    11 to 14
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    Identical squares of side one unit contain some circles shaded blue. In which of the four examples is the shaded area greatest?

  • Special Numbers
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    Special Numbers

    Age
    11 to 14
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    My two digit number is special because adding the sum of its digits to the product of its digits gives me my original number. What could my number be?

  • Picturing Triangular Numbers
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    Picturing Triangular Numbers

    Age
    11 to 14
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    What do you notice about the sum of two identical triangular numbers?

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

    Age
    11 to 14
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    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
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    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
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    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
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    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
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    How much of the square is coloured blue? How will the pattern continue?

  • At least one...
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    At Least One...

    Age
    11 to 14
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    Imagine flipping a coin a number of times. Can you work out the probability you will get a head on at least one of the flips?

  • Growing Surprises
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    Growing Surprises

    Age
    11 to 14
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    Can you find the connections between linear and quadratic patterns?

  • Counting Factors
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    Counting Factors

    Age
    11 to 14
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    Is there an efficient way to work out how many factors a large number has?

  • Legs Eleven
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    Legs Eleven

    Age
    11 to 14
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    Take any four digit number. Move the first digit to the end and move the rest along. Now add your two numbers. Did you get a multiple of 11?

  • Think of Two Numbers
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    Think of Two Numbers

    Age
    11 to 14
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    Think of two whole numbers under 10, and follow the steps. I can work out both your numbers very quickly. How?

  • An Unusual Shape
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    An Unusual Shape

    Age
    11 to 14
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    Can you maximise the area available to a grazing goat?

  • Mixing Paints
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    Mixing Paints

    Age
    11 to 14
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    Can you work out how to produce different shades of pink paint?

  • Speeding up, slowing down
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    Speeding Up, Slowing Down

    Age
    11 to 14
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    Experiment with the interactivity of "rolling" regular polygons, and explore how the different positions of the dot affects its speed at each stage.

  • Triangle Numbers
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    Triangle Numbers

    Age
    11 to 14
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    Take a look at the multiplication square. The first eleven triangle numbers have been identified. Can you see a pattern? Does the pattern continue?

  • Temperature
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    Temperature

    Age
    11 to 14
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    Is there a temperature at which Celsius and Fahrenheit readings are the same?

  • The Tower of Hanoi - three wooden poles, with several coloured rings of decreasing sizes on the middle pole.
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    Tower of Hanoi

    Age
    11 to 14
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    The Tower of Hanoi is an ancient mathematical challenge. Working on the building blocks may help you to explain the patterns you notice.

  • Fill Me Up
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    Fill Me Up

    Age
    11 to 14
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    Can you sketch graphs to show how the height of water changes in different containers as they are filled?

  • What numbers can we make now?
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    What Numbers Can We Make Now?

    Age
    11 to 14
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    Imagine we have four bags containing numbers from a sequence. What numbers can we make now?

  • Quadrilaterals in a Square
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    Quadrilaterals in a Square

    Age
    11 to 14
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    What's special about the area of quadrilaterals drawn in a square?

  • Impossibilities
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    Impossibilities

    Age
    11 to 14
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    Just because a problem is impossible doesn't mean it's difficult...

  • Reversals
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    Reversals

    Age
    11 to 14
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    Where should you start, if you want to finish back where you started?

  • Garden Shed
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    Garden Shed

    Age
    11 to 14
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    Can you minimise the amount of wood needed to build the roof of my garden shed?

  • The Farmers' Field Boundary
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    The Farmers' Field Boundary

    Age
    11 to 14
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    The farmers want to redraw their field boundary but keep the area the same. Can you advise them?

  • A blue patchwork quilt draped over a white sofa.
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    Alison's Quilt

    Age
    11 to 14
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    Nine squares are fitted together to form a rectangle. Can you find its dimensions?

  • Triangles to Tetrahedra
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    Triangles to Tetrahedra

    Age
    11 to 14
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    Imagine you have an unlimited number of four types of triangle. How many different tetrahedra can you make?