Exploring and noticing

  • Non-Transitive Dice
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    Non-Transitive Dice

    Age
    11 to 14
    Challenge level
    2 out of 3

    Alison and Charlie are playing a game. Charlie wants to go first so Alison lets him. Was that such a good idea?

  • What's the weather like?
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    What's the Weather Like?

    Age
    11 to 14
    Challenge level
    2 out of 3

    With access to weather station data, what interesting questions can you investigate?

  • Unequal Averages
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    Unequal Averages

    Age
    11 to 14
    Challenge level
    2 out of 3

    Play around with sets of five numbers and see what you can discover about different types of average...

  • Fibonacci Surprises
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    Fibonacci Surprises

    Age
    11 to 14
    Challenge level
    2 out of 3

    Play around with the Fibonacci sequence and discover some surprising results!

  • Terminating or not
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    Terminating or Not

    Age
    11 to 14
    Challenge level
    2 out of 3

    Is there a quick way to work out whether a fraction terminates or recurs when you write it as a decimal?

  • Differences
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    Differences

    Age
    11 to 14
    Challenge level
    3 out of 3

    Can you guarantee that, for any three numbers you choose, the product of their differences will always be an even number?

  • One to Eight
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    One to Eight

    Age
    11 to 14
    Challenge level
    3 out of 3

    Complete the following expressions so that each one gives a four digit number as the product of two two digit numbers and uses the digits 1 to 8 once and only once.

  • How Many Miles To Go?
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    How Many Miles to Go?

    Age
    11 to 14
    Challenge level
    3 out of 3

    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?

  • Up and across
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    Up and Across

    Age
    11 to 14
    Challenge level
    3 out of 3

    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.

  • Litov's Mean Value Theorem
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    Litov's Mean Value Theorem

    Age
    11 to 14
    Challenge level
    3 out of 3

    Start with two numbers and generate a sequence where the next number is the mean of the last two numbers...