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World of Tan - Celebrations

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Can you fit the tangram pieces into the outline of Little Ming and Little Fung dancing?

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World of Tan - All in a Fluff

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Can you fit the tangram pieces into the outline of these rabbits?

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World of Tan - Millennia

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Can you fit the tangram pieces into the outlines of the workmen?

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World of Tan - Time Flies

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Can you fit the tangram pieces into the outlines of the candle and sundial?

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World of Tan - Working Men

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Can you fit the tangram pieces into the outline of this shape. How would you describe it?

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World of Tan - Soup

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Can you fit the tangram pieces into the outlines of Mai Ling and Chi Wing?

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World of Tan - the Past, Present and Future

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Can you fit the tangram pieces into the outline of the telescope and microscope?

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World of Tan - Gat Marn

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Can you fit the tangram pieces into the outline of this plaque design?

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Square Tangram

Stage: 2 Challenge Level: Challenge Level:2 Challenge Level:2

This is a new problem for our birthday website. Can you use four of these pieces to form a square? How about making a square with all five pieces?

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World of Tan - Butterflies

Stage: 2 Challenge Level: Challenge Level:2 Challenge Level:2

Can you fit the tangram pieces into the outline of these butterflies?

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World of Tan - Sports Car

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Can you fit the tangram pieces into the outline of this sports car?

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World of Tan - Rocket

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Can you fit the tangram pieces into the outline of the rocket?

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World of Tan - Mai Ling

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Can you fit the tangram pieces into the outline of Mai Ling?

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World of Tan - Little Ming

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Can you fit the tangram pieces into the outline of Little Ming?

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World of Tan - Fractions

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Can you fit the tangram pieces into the outlines of the chairs?

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World of Tan - Almost There Now

Stage: 2 Challenge Level: Challenge Level:2 Challenge Level:2

Can you fit the tangram pieces into the outlines of the lobster, yacht and cyclist?

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Advent Calendar 2006

Stage: 2 Challenge Level: Challenge Level:1

NRICH December 2006 advent calendar - a new tangram for each day in the run-up to Christmas.

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World of Tan - Monday Morning

Stage: 2 Challenge Level: Challenge Level:2 Challenge Level:2

Can you fit the tangram pieces into the outline of Wai Ping, Wah Ming and Chi Wing?

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Making Maths: Birds from an Egg

Stage: 2 Challenge Level: Challenge Level:1

Can you make the birds from the egg tangram?

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Seven Flipped

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Investigate the smallest number of moves it takes to turn these mats upside-down if you can only turn exactly three at a time.

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Advent Calendar 2008

Stage: 1 and 2 Challenge Level: Challenge Level:1

Our 2008 Advent Calendar has a 'Making Maths' activity for every day in the run-up to Christmas.

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Triangle Shapes

Stage: 1 Challenge Level: Challenge Level:3 Challenge Level:3 Challenge Level:3

Use the three triangles to fill these outline shapes. Perhaps you can create some of your own shapes for a friend to fill?

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World of Tan - Junk

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Can you fit the tangram pieces into the outline of this junk?

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World of Tan - the Telephone

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Can you fit the tangram pieces into the outline of this telephone?

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World of Tan - Clocks

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Can you fit the tangram pieces into the outlines of these clocks?

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World of Tan - an Appealing Stroll

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Can you fit the tangram pieces into the outline of the child walking home from school?

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World of Tan - Pentominoes

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Can you fit the tangram pieces into the outlines of these people?

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World of Tan - Old Chestnut

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Can you fit the tangram pieces into the outline of this brazier for roasting chestnuts?

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World of Tan - Concentrating on Coordinates

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Can you fit the tangram pieces into the outline of Little Ming playing the board game?

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World of Tan - Sharing

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Can you fit the tangram pieces into the outline of Little Fung at the table?

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World of Tan - A Storm in a Tea Cup

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Can you fit the tangram pieces into the outline of these convex shapes?

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World of Tan - Animals

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Can you fit the tangram pieces into the outline of this goat and giraffe?

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World of Tan - Weather

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Can you fit the tangram pieces into the outlines of the watering can and man in a boat?

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World of Tan - Granma T

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Can you fit the tangram pieces into the outline of Granma T?

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Making Sticks

Stage: 1 Challenge Level: Challenge Level:2 Challenge Level:2

Kimie and Sebastian were making sticks from interlocking cubes and lining them up. Can they make their lines the same length? Can they make any other lines?

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Cutting Corners

Stage: 2 Challenge Level: Challenge Level:1

Can you make the most extraordinary, the most amazing, the most unusual patterns/designs from these triangles which are made in a special way?

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Rearrange the Square

Stage: 1 Challenge Level: Challenge Level:1

We can cut a small triangle off the corner of a square and then fit the two pieces together. Can you work out how these shapes are made from the two pieces?

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Putting Two and Two Together

Stage: 2 Challenge Level: Challenge Level:1

In how many ways can you fit two of these yellow triangles together? Can you predict the number of ways two blue triangles can be fitted together?

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Escher Tessellations

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This practical investigation invites you to make tessellating shapes in a similar way to the artist Escher.

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Making Maths: Double-sided Magic Square

Stage: 2 and 3 Challenge Level: Challenge Level:2 Challenge Level:2

Make your own double-sided magic square. But can you complete both sides once you've made the pieces?

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Music to My Ears

Stage: 2 Challenge Level: Challenge Level:1

Can you predict when you'll be clapping and when you'll be clicking if you start this rhythm? How about when a friend begins a new rhythm at the same time?

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Sticks and Triangles

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Using different numbers of sticks, how many different triangles are you able to make? Can you make any rules about the numbers of sticks that make the most triangles?

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Clapping Times

Stage: 1 Challenge Level: Challenge Level:1

If you count from 1 to 20 and clap more loudly on the numbers in the two times table, as well as saying those numbers loudly, which numbers will be loud?

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Making Tangrams

Stage: 2 Challenge Level: Challenge Level:1

Here's a simple way to make a Tangram without any measuring or ruling lines.

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Dienes' Logiblocs

Stage: 1 Challenge Level: Challenge Level:2 Challenge Level:2

This problem focuses on Dienes' Logiblocs. What is the same and what is different about these pairs of shapes? Can you describe the shapes in the picture?

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Counter Ideas

Stage: 2

Here are some ideas to try in the classroom for using counters to investigate number patterns.

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Cuisenaire Rods

Stage: 2 Challenge Level: Challenge Level:2 Challenge Level:2

These squares have been made from Cuisenaire rods. Can you describe the pattern? What would the next square look like?

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Little Boxes

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How many different cuboids can you make when you use four CDs or DVDs? How about using five, then six?

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Counting Counters

Stage: 2 Challenge Level: Challenge Level:2 Challenge Level:2

Take a counter and surround it by a ring of other counters that MUST touch two others. How many are needed?

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Two by One

Stage: 2 Challenge Level: Challenge Level:1

An activity making various patterns with 2 x 1 rectangular tiles.