Cat Apult

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Fire the cats onto the shelves so that there is one cat on each of the top two shelves. The number of cats on the other shelves should be the sum of the number of cats on the two shelves immediately above.

Check

Drag the cat and release to see it fly up to the shelves!

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This game is intended to provide a little bit of fun with a loose mathematical connection. There is of course mathematics involved in knowing the angle and stretch required to get the cat to the correct shelf. There is also mathematics involved in following the instructions about the number sequences.

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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 85 times and 20 Transum Trophies have been awarded for completing it.

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