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Year 11 Reasoning, convincing and proving

Finding factors
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Finding factors

Age
14 to 16
Challenge level
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Can you find the hidden factors which multiply together to produce each quadratic expression?

Factorising with Multilink
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Factorising with multilink

Age
14 to 16
Challenge level
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Can you find out what is special about the dimensions of rectangles you can make with squares, sticks and units?
Double Trouble
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Double trouble

Age
14 to 16
Challenge level
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Simple additions can lead to intriguing results...
How old am I?
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How old am I?

Age
14 to 16
Challenge level
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In 15 years' time my age will be the square of my age 15 years ago. Can you work out my age, and when I had other special birthdays?

Salinon
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Salinon

Age
14 to 16
Challenge level
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This shape comprises four semi-circles. What is the relationship between the area of the shaded region and the area of the circle on AB as diameter?

Partly Painted Cube
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Partly painted cube

Age
14 to 16
Challenge level
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Jo made a cube from some smaller cubes, painted some of the faces of the large cube, and then took it apart again. 45 small cubes had no paint on them at all. How many small cubes did Jo use?
Multiplication arithmagons
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Multiplication arithmagons

Age
14 to 16
Challenge level
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Can you find the values at the vertices when you know the values on the edges of these multiplication arithmagons?

Kite in a Square
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Kite in a square

Age
14 to 18
Challenge level
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Can you make sense of the three methods to work out what fraction of the total area is shaded?

Difference of Two Squares
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Difference of two squares

Age
14 to 16
Challenge level
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What is special about the difference between squares of numbers adjacent to multiples of three?
The square under the hypotenuse
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The square under the hypotenuse

Age
14 to 16
Challenge level
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Can you work out the side length of a square that just touches the hypotenuse of a right angled triangle?

Picture Story
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Picture story

Age
14 to 16
Challenge level
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Can you see how this picture illustrates the formula for the sum of the first six cube numbers?
Triangle midpoints
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Triangle midpoints

Age
14 to 16
Challenge level
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You are only given the three midpoints of the sides of a triangle. How can you construct the original triangle?

Doesn't add up
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Doesn't add up

Age
14 to 16
Challenge level
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In this problem we are faced with an apparently easy area problem, but it has gone horribly wrong! What happened?

Two Ladders
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Two ladders

Age
14 to 16
Challenge level
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Two ladders are propped up against facing walls. At what height do the ladders cross?

CD Heaven
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CD Heaven

Age
14 to 16
Challenge level
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All CD Heaven stores were given the same number of a popular CD to sell for £24. In their two week sale each store reduces the price of the CD by 25% ... How many CDs did the store sell at each price?

Repetitiously
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Repetitiously

Age
14 to 16
Challenge level
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Can you express every recurring decimal as a fraction?
Triangles and petals
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Triangles and petals

Age
14 to 16
Challenge level
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An equilateral triangle rotates around regular polygons and produces an outline like a flower. What are the perimeters of the different flowers?

LCM Sudoku
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LCM Sudoku

Age
14 to 16
Challenge level
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Here is a Sudoku with a difference! Use information about lowest common multiples to help you solve it.

Immersion
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Immersion

Age
14 to 16
Challenge level
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Various solids are lowered into a beaker of water. How does the water level rise in each case?

Fit for photocopying
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Fit for photocopying

Age
14 to 16
Challenge level
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Explore the relationships between different paper sizes.

Napkin
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Napkin

Age
14 to 16
Challenge level
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A napkin is folded so that a corner coincides with the midpoint of an opposite edge. Investigate the three triangles formed.

Areas and Ratios
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Areas and ratios

Age
16 to 18
Challenge level
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Do you have enough information to work out the area of the shaded quadrilateral?