Sir Andrew John Wiles (born 11 April 1953) is an English mathematician and a Royal Society Research Professor at the University of Oxford, specialising in number theory. He is best known for proving Fermat's Last Theorem.
SUBSTITUTION
Can you solve Fermat's Last Theorem?
Key questions
Do we remember the priority of operations?
What does substitution mean?
Can we substitute into expressions?
Can we write simple formulae?
Can we use formulae?
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The Number Devil by Hans Magnus Enzensburger
Wiles
Introduce...
algebra game - 1
loop cards - 1
perimeter - 1, 2
mazes - 1
heart rate - 1, 2, 3
il machina - 1, 2
Develop...
machine cards - 1
pair up - 1
quadrilaterals - 1
flow diagrams - 1, 2 , 3
formulas - 1, 3
ks3 sat questions - 1, 3
temperature conversion - 1, 3
Extend...
famous formulae - 3
(a+b)^2-(a-b)^2 - 1, 3
reading age - 1, 3
training schedule - 1, 3
graph primitive triples - 1, 3
pythagorean triples - 1, 3
pythagorean generators - 1, 3