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Year 9 Exploring and Noticing

Xavi's T-shirt
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Xavi's T-shirt

Age
7 to 16
Challenge level
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How much can you read into a T-shirt?

Special Numbers
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Special Numbers

Age
11 to 14
Challenge level
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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?

Tilted Squares
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Tilted Squares

Age
11 to 14
Challenge level
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It's easy to work out the areas of most squares that we meet, but what if they were tilted?

How far does it move?
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How far does it move?

Age
11 to 14
Challenge level
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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.

Parallel lines
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Parallel lines

Age
11 to 14
Challenge level
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How does the position of the line affect the equation of the line? What can you say about the equations of parallel lines?
In the bag
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In the bag

Age
11 to 14
Challenge level
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Can you guess the colours of the 10 marbles in the bag? Can you develop an effective strategy for reaching 1000 points in the least number of rounds?
Elevenses
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Elevenses

Age
11 to 14
Challenge level
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How many pairs of numbers can you find that add up to a multiple of 11? Do you notice anything interesting about your results?
Reflecting Lines
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Reflecting Lines

Age
11 to 14
Challenge level
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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
Challenge level
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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.
Cyclic Quadrilaterals
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Cyclic Quadrilaterals

Age
11 to 16
Challenge level
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Draw some quadrilaterals on a 9-point circle and work out the angles. Is there a theorem?

Growing Surprises
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Growing Surprises

Age
11 to 14
Challenge level
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Can you find the connections between linear and quadratic patterns?
Diamond Collector
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Diamond Collector

Collect as many diamonds as you can by drawing three straight lines.

Days and Dates
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Days and Dates

Age
11 to 14
Challenge level
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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...
What's it worth?
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What's it worth?

Age
11 to 16
Challenge level
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There are lots of different methods to find out what the shapes are worth - how many can you find?

Largest product
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Largest product

Age
11 to 14
Challenge level
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Which set of numbers that add to 100 have the largest product?
Cinema Problem
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Cinema Problem

Age
11 to 14
Challenge level
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A cinema has 100 seats. How can ticket sales make £100 for these different combinations of ticket prices?

Sending a Parcel
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Sending a Parcel

Age
11 to 14
Challenge level
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What is the greatest volume you can get for a rectangular (cuboid) parcel if the maximum combined length and girth are 2 metres?
Mixing Paints
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Mixing Paints

Age
11 to 14
Challenge level
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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
Challenge level
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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.

Twisting and Turning
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Twisting and Turning

Age
11 to 14
Challenge level
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Take a look at the video and try to find a sequence of moves that will untangle the ropes.
Star Polygons
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Star Polygons

Age
11 to 14
Challenge level
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Draw some stars and measure the angles at their points. Can you find and prove a result about their sum?

Terminating or not
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Terminating or not

Age
11 to 14
Challenge level
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Is there a quick way to work out whether a fraction terminates or recurs when you write it as a decimal?
Marbles in a box
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Marbles in a box

Age
11 to 16
Challenge level
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How many winning lines can you make in a three-dimensional version of noughts and crosses?
Think of Two Numbers
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Think of Two Numbers

Age
11 to 14
Challenge level
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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?
Up and across
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Up and across

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

How Many Miles To Go?
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How Many Miles To Go?

Age
11 to 14
Challenge level
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How many more miles must the car travel before the numbers on the milometer and the trip meter contain the same digits in the same order?
Generating Triples
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Generating Triples

Age
14 to 16
Challenge level
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Sets of integers like 3, 4, 5 are called Pythagorean Triples, because they could be the lengths of the sides of a right-angled triangle. Can you find any more?
Tree tops
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Tree tops

Age
14 to 16
Challenge level
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Can you make sense of information about trees in order to maximise the profits of a forestry company?