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Moving Squares

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How can you represent the curvature of a cylinder on a flat piece of paper?

Figure of Eight

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On a nine-point pegboard a band is stretched over 4 pegs in a "figure of 8" arrangement. How many different "figure of 8" arrangements can be made ?

A Scale for the Solar System

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The Earth is further from the Sun than Venus, but how much further? Twice as far? Ten times?

Round and Round a Circle

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Can you explain what is happening and account for the values being displayed?

Trigonometric Protractor

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An environment that simulates a protractor carrying a right- angled triangle of unit hypotenuse.

Sine and Cosine for Connected Angles

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The length AM can be calculated using trigonometry in two different ways. Create this pair of equivalent calculations for different peg boards, notice a general result, and account for it.

Sine and Cosine

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The sine of an angle is equal to the cosine of its complement. Can you explain why and does this rule extend beyond angles of 90 degrees?

Squ-areas

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Three squares are drawn on the sides of a triangle ABC. Their areas are respectively 18 000, 20 000 and 26 000 square centimetres. If the outer vertices of the squares are joined, three more. . . .

8 Methods for Three by One

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This problem in geometry has been solved in no less than EIGHT ways by a pair of students. How would you solve it? How many of their solutions can you follow? How are they the same or different?. . . .

Where Is the Dot?

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A dot starts at the point (1,0) and turns anticlockwise. Can you estimate the height of the dot after it has turned through 45 degrees? Can you calculate its height?
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