Graph sketching

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Favourite

Take your dog for a walk

Age

7 to 11

Challenge level

Use the interactivity to move Pat. Can you reproduce the graphs and tell their story?
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Curve hunter

Age

14 to 18

Challenge level

This problem challenges you to sketch curves with different properties.
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Favourite

Curve fitter

Age

14 to 18

Challenge level

This problem challenges you to find cubic equations which satisfy different conditions.
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Favourite

MathsJam jars

Age

14 to 16

Challenge level

Imagine different shaped vessels being filled. Can you work out what the graphs of the water level should look like?
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Interpolating polynomials

Age

16 to 18

Challenge level

Given a set of points (x,y) with distinct x values, find a polynomial that goes through all of them, then prove some results about the existence and uniqueness of these polynomials.
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Bird-brained

Age

16 to 18

Challenge level

How many eggs should a bird lay to maximise the number of chicks that will hatch? An introduction to optimisation.
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A close match

Age

16 to 18

Challenge level

Can you massage the parameters of these curves to make them match as closely as possible?
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Favourite

What's that graph?

Age

14 to 18

Challenge level

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

Fill me up

Age

11 to 14

Challenge level

Can you sketch graphs to show how the height of water changes in different containers as they are filled?
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Guessing the graph

Age

14 to 16

Challenge level

Can you suggest a curve to fit some experimental data? Can you work out where the data might have come from?