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Stage 2::[problem**] Cycling Squares
Can you make a cycle of pairs that add to make a square number
using all the numbers in the box below, once and once only?
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Year 12 Enrichment Day
2009-07-09 This enrichment event for Year 12 students will feature engaging mathematical content and an interesting insight into a range of intriguing applications of the subject. Lecture topics include 'Mathematics and the Movies', 'Avalanche!' and 'Particle Hunting at the Large Hadron Collider'. For full details please see the programme for the day at the
Cambridgeshire Further Mathematics Centre website.
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The Plus sports page: Deciding who's top
At the very heart of sport is a fierce battle in which the combatants strive to outwit and outplay each other. Each thrust is matched by a parry and in the end, there can only be one winner. The rules of each sport dictate how that winner is determined, and whether it is football, tennis, golf or chess, it is those who perform best on the day who take home the glory. This latest installment of the Plus sports page looks at two ranking systems that couldn't be any different from each other — those of sumo and chess.
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Issue 51 of Plus is out now!
This special double issue of Plus is cause for celebration: both of the endeavours of physics to understand our Universe, and of the writers of tomorrow who may help explain it. We explore the frontiers of modern physics: searching for alien life in space and exotic particles in the LHC, looking through the Hubble Space Telescope, imagining a holographic Universe, and wrestling with one of the biggest problems in modern physics.
And the winners of the Plus new writers award 2009 explore the most beautiful equation of them all,
explain the
credit crunch, and unveil the curse of good looks. We raise a toast to mathematics and physics — to all the explorers of the new frontiers and the new writers who can take us there!
Read issue 51 of Plus!
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Free professional development with the NRICH team
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Revised charges from September 2009
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Stage 3::[problem*] Parallel lines
How does the position of the line affect the equation of the line?
What can you say about the equations of parallel lines?
Read more.
http://mmp.maths.org.
The Millennium Mathematics Project (MMP) is a long-term
national maths education and outreach initiative, based in
Cambridge, but active in programmes across the UK and
internationally
http://motivate.maths.org.
MOTIVATE is a real-time videoconferencing project for
schools that enables students of all ages (5-18) to work
with professional mathematicians and scientists, and with
other school students their own age.
http://plus.maths.org.
Plus is an internet magazine published five times a year
which aims to introduce readers to the beauty and the
practical applications of mathematics. Whether you want to
know how to build a sundial, how to keep your messages safe
or what shape the universe is, it's all there. So take a
look at the latest issue, explore the archive and browse
the careers library to see where maths can take you!
http://nrich.maths.org.
Nrich aims to enrich mathematical experiences by giving
students the opportunity to explore and engage with
mathematical ideas, offer challenging activities which
provide students with opportunities to develop their
mathematics, foster a community where students can be
involved and supported in their own learning and where
effort and achievement is celebrated, provide flexible
access to a large, developing resource base and to research
and develop the use of existing and new technologies to
enhance the learning and teaching experience.
http://stimulus.maths.org.
STIMULUS - peer assisted learning (PAL) through visits
to schools. Cambridge University students visit local
schools to share with school students their enthusiasm for
science, engineering, computers, mathematics or medical
sciences and, guided by experienced teachers, to assist the
pupils in their school work.
http://thesaurus.maths.org.
This site contains brief explanations of mathematical
terms and ideas in English, Danish, Finnish, Hungarian,
Lithuanian, Polish, Slovak.
