Skip over navigation
Not Continued Fractions
Age 14 to 18
Challenge Level 
Why do this problem?
For experience of reasoning about the integer part of a number and working with fractions.Possible approach
Challenge the students to invent their own problems of this type.Key question
What is the integer part of $N$?You may also like
Good Approximations
Solve quadratic equations and use continued fractions to find rational approximations to irrational numbers.
There's a Limit
Explore the continued fraction: 2+3/(2+3/(2+3/2+...)) What do you notice when successive terms are taken? What happens to the terms if the fraction goes on indefinitely?
