Year 11+ Being collaborative

  • Why 24?
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    Why 24?

    Age
    14 to 16
    Challenge level
    2 out of 3

    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
    Challenge level
    2 out of 3

    Can you find the area of a parallelogram defined by two vectors?

  • Fill Me Up Too
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    Fill Me Up Too

    Age
    14 to 16
    Challenge level
    2 out of 3

    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?

  • Hexy-Metry
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    Hexy-Metry

    Age
    14 to 16
    Challenge level
    3 out of 3

    A hexagon, with sides alternately a and b units in length, is inscribed in a circle. How big is the radius of the circle?

  • Vector walk
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    Vector Walk

    Age
    14 to 18
    Challenge level
    1 out of 3

    Starting with two basic vector steps, which destinations can you reach on a vector walk?

  • Exploring cubic functions
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    Exploring Cubic Functions

    Age
    14 to 18
    Challenge level
    2 out of 3

    Quadratic graphs are very familiar, but what patterns can you explore with cubics?

  • Back fitter
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    Back Fitter

    Age
    14 to 18
    Challenge level
    2 out of 3

    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?

  • What's that graph?
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    What's That Graph?

    Age
    14 to 18
    Challenge level
    2 out of 3

    Can you work out which processes are represented by the graphs?