Investigations - Vinculum

'Investigations', previously called 'Maths Treats', is published each term in Vinculum, the MAV's Secondary Mathematics journal.

Volume 61 2024 Term 2 Games Wide Open
    Term 1 Time waits for no-one
Volume 60 2023 Term 4 It's a Bird, It's a Plane, It's... A Drone
    Term 3 Fat Bear Week  
    Term 2 The Great Australian Dream
    Term 1 Fairy tales or tall tales?
Volume 59 2022 Term 4 Global wealth and income inequality
    Term 3 The global issue of production, consumption and waste
    Term 2 Modelling global access to water and food
    Term 1 Modelling the global issue of population
Volume 58 2021 Term 4 Using computers for mathematical proofs
    Term 3 Mathematics and graphing software
    Term 2 Mathematics and Spreadsheets
    Term 1 Mathematics behind calculators
Volume 57 2020 Term 4 Economic Literacy
    Term 3 Consumer Literacy
    Term 2 Superannuation
    Term 1 Taxation
Volume 56 2019 Term 4 Geometries and Topology
    Term 3 Shapes and Networks, Combinatorics

 

 

Term 2

The Traveling Salesman problem

    Term 1 Who was the first mathematician?
Volume 55 2018 Term 4 Victoria Central: Mandurang in the middle
    Term 3 Bogong - Winter on the Big Fella
    Term 2 Bright - Autumn in an Alpine Valley
    Term 1 Hitting the waves at Bells Beach
Volume 54 2017 Term 4 Data Security and Cryptography
    Term 3 Music and Geometry
    Term 2 DNA
    Term 1 Living in a post-truth world?
Volume 53 2016 Term 4 Numbers as Shapes
    Term 3 Games of Chance and Skill
    Term 2 Mountains and Angles
    Term 1 Recreational Maths
Volume 52 2015 Term 4 Mathematics in Architecture
    Term 3 Population Modelling
    Term 2 Geometric Playtime