Make a cube out of straws and have a go at this practical challenge.
Reasoning about the number of matches needed to build squares that share their sides.
How can the same pieces of the tangram make this bowl before and after it was chipped? Use the interactivity to try and work out what is going on!
Several people decided that 16 moves were needed to swap the stars and moons. The really interesting part is the ways they invented to tell us what the moves were ... Joshua (Brooklands Primary School, Suffolk) numbered the squares 1 to 9 like this:
He says, "I could do the swap of the moons and stars in 16 moves:
Thomas (Tattingstone School, UK) used the game-board like a map grid.
Jaimee (Tattingstone School, UK) gave each square a letter and called the Stars S1 and S2, and the Moons M1 and M2.