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New ActivityThe latest activity to be updated on this site is called "Pythagoras with Surds" (Questions about right-angled triangles for which the answers should be surds in their simplest form.). So far this activity has been accessed 82 times and 20 people have earned a Transum Trophy for completing it. 
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