Focus: Years 7/8 - handling data: lead-in

The Order to …Chaos theme consists of five sections covering formulae and equations, graphs and number operations to build up some ideas relating to fractals.

The key idea is colouring in a square based on some numerical calculation. This develops, at a simple level, the idea of chaos in mathematics and the notion of fractal.

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Subject(s)Mathematics
Author(s)Brian Hudson, Mary Rouncefield
Age14-16
Published1991
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Shelf referenceA 510.03 CEN
ISN/ISBN074871149X
Direct URLhttps://www.stem.org.uk/x8jqq

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