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Making Maths: Happy Families

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Here is a version of the game 'Happy Families' for you to make and play.

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World of Tan 15 - Millennia

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

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World of Tan 14 - 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 12 - 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 16 - 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 11 - 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 19 - 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 18 - 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 20 - Fractions

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

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World of Tan 9 - 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 5 - Rocket

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

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Six to Four

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Move four sticks so there are exactly four triangles.

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World of Tan 2 - 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 3 - 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 7 - Gat Marn

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

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Making Maths: Rolypoly

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

Paint a stripe on a cardboard roll. Can you predict what will happen when it is rolled across a sheet of paper?

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World of Tan 21 - Almost There Now

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

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World of Tan 22 - 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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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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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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Making Maths: Birds from an Egg

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Can you make the birds from the egg tangram?

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Building Patterns

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Can you deduce the pattern that has been used to lay out these bottle tops?

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Sizing Them Up

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Can you put these shapes in order of size? Start with the smallest.

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Advent Calendar 2008

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

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Happy Halving

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Can you split each of the shapes below in half so that the two parts are exactly the same?

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Advent Calendar 2006

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

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World of Tan 4 - Monday Morning

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

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World of Tan 25 - Pentominoes

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

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World of Tan 24 - Clocks

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

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World of Tan 27 - 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 28 - 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 6 - Junk

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

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World of Tan 29 - the Telephone

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

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Three Squares

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What is the greatest number of squares you can make by overlapping three squares?

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World of Tan 26 - 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 10 - Butterflies

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Tessellating Capitals

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Have you ever tried tessellating capital letters? Have a look at these examples and then try some for yourself.

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World of Tan 1 - Granma T

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

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World of Tan 13 - 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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Square Tangram

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This was a 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 8 - Sports Car

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

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Reef and Granny

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Have a look at what happens when you pull a reef knot and a granny knot tight. Which do you think is best for securing things together? Why?

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World of Tan 17 - 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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Matchsticks

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Reasoning about the number of matches needed to build squares that share their sides.

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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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Hoops/rope

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Ideas for practical ways of representing data such as Venn and Carroll diagrams.

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Two by One

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

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Tricky Triangles

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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Folding, Cutting and Punching

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Exploring and predicting folding, cutting and punching holes and making spirals.

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Triangle Relations

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What do these two triangles have in common? How are they related?


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