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Year 11+ Being Collaborative

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?
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?
Why 24?
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Why 24?

Age
14 to 16
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Take any prime number greater than 3 , square it and subtract one. Working on the building blocks will help you to explain what is special about your results.
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?
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?

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?
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?

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?