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The frog problem: more than you might want to know

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 August 2016

Derek Holton
Derek Holton*
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Dept of Maths and Stats, University of Otago, Box 56, Dunedin, New Zealand
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The Frog Problem is a well-known exercise in problem solving that involves a lot of reasonably deep mathematics that is perhaps of more interest than learning a new integration technique. I want to try to expose this mathematics here, not that it is within the scope of all school students but so that it is recognised and possibly offered to at least the brightest pupils.

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The Mathematical Gazette , Volume 93 , Issue 528 , November 2009, pp. 398 - 403
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Copyright © The Mathematical Association 2009

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