A game in which players take it in turns to turn up two cards. If they can draw a triangle which satisfies both properties they win the pair of cards. And a few challenging questions to follow......
Using your knowledge of the properties of numbers, can you fill all the squares on the board?...
Can you make matrices which will fix one lucky vector and crush another to zero?...
Use matrices to model this popular party game....
Choose four of the numbers from 1 to 9 to put in the squares so that the differences between joined squares are odd....
Try out this number trick. What happens with different starting numbers? What do you notice?...
Is it possible to deduce the shape of a drum from the sounds it makes? This is the kind of question that Iosif Polterovich, a professor in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at Université de Montréal, likes to ask. Polterovich uses spectral geometry, a branch of mathematics, to understand...
Many numbers can be expressed as the difference of two perfect squares. What do you notice about the numbers you CANNOT make?...
Use matrices to find out how much cake I eat....
Explore the shape of a square after it is transformed by the action of a matrix....
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