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Put positive whole numbers into the boxes to make the sum correct.
Here is one way to do it. How many other ways can you find? Explain your answer.
Now answer the same question for the year you were born.
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Suppose you have two 1s, two 2s and two 3s.
Arrange these six digits in a list so that:
between the two 1s there is one digit giving 1?1,
between the two 2s there are two digits giving 2??2,
between the two 3s there are three digits giving 3???3.
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Try the ages of your family and friends.
What happens?
Can you explain it?
Does this work for very old people over the age of 99? Why or why not?
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Watch this turtle. Describe his path.
What commands would you give to make the turtle do this?
This activity will help you to start writing programs to command the robot even if you have never done anything like this before and you know nothing about coding. The LOGO language is simple to […]
A sequence is defined by the formula an = n2 – 2n + 1.
(a) Calculate the first 8 terms of the sequence.
(b) Calculate the first difference between the terms.
(c) Calculate the second difference between the terms.
(d) What can you say about the results you obtained?
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What pattern can you see in the last digits of the powers of 2?
What about the last digits of the powers of 3?
What patterns can you see in the last digits for the numbers in the picture?
Can you explain why all these numbers are multiples of 5?
What about […]
Investigate the last digits of the numbers in the picture when n = 1, 2, 3 , 4 and 5. What do you notice? Does this pattern continue? Why?
Will the first number be a power of 10 for any value of n?
What can you say about the values of n […]
Is this number divisible by 5?
Hint: Just look at the last digits of powers. What values do they take?
Investigate other big powers?
Make up some similar numerical expressions involving powers that have interesting properties.
What about even bigger powers or
?
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The hour and minute hands of my clock are at right angles.
How many degrees does each hand move forward in one minute? How long will it be before they are at right angles again?
Be careful, it will not be at half past three!
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This problem […]
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