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Polyhedra. Maths Supporting SET. Cubes. Interactivities. Practical Activity. Nets. Surface and surface area. Tetrahedra. Visualising. 2D representations of 3D shapes.

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Oblique Projection

Stage: 3 Challenge Level:

Explore the properties of oblique projection.

Chopped Dice

Stage: 4 Challenge Level:

Can you make a new type of fair die with 14 faces by shaving the corners off a cube?

Make Your Own Pencil Case

Stage: 3 Challenge Level:

What shape would fit your pens and pencils best? How can you make it?

Witch's Hat

Stage: 3 and 4 Challenge Level:

What shapes should Elly cut out to make a witch's hat? How can she make a taller hat?

Isometric Drawing

Stage: 3 Challenge Level:

Explore the properties of isometric drawings.

Cool as Ice

Stage: 3 and 4 Challenge Level:

Design and construct a prototype intercooler which will satisfy agreed quality control constraints.

Straw Scaffold

Stage: 3 Challenge Level:

Build a scaffold out of drinking-straws to support a cup of water

Perspective Drawing

Stage: 3 and 4 Challenge Level:

Explore the properties of perspective drawing.

Make Your Own Robot

Stage: 2 and 3 Challenge Level:

A simple robot to make, plus robots in everyday life to investigate.

Flip Your Mat!

Stage: 2 and 3 Challenge Level:

What shape and size of drinks mat is best for flipping and catching?

Tray Bake

Stage: 3 Challenge Level:

My recipe is for 12 cakes - how do I change it if I want to make a different number of cakes?

Toad in the Hole

Stage: 3 Challenge Level:

Is it cheaper to cook a meal from scratch or to buy a ready meal? What difference does the number of people you're cooking for make?

Carbon Footprints

Stage: 4 Challenge Level:

Is it really greener to go on the bus, or to buy local?

Troublesome Triangles

Stage: 2 and 3 Challenge Level:

Many natural systems appear to be in equilibrium until suddenly a critical point is reached, setting up a mudslide or an avalanche or an earthquake. In this project, students will use a simple. . . .

Flower Power

Stage: 3 and 4 Challenge Level:

Create a symmetrical fabric design based on a flower motif - and realise it in Logo.

Robot Camera

Stage: 4 Challenge Level:

Could nanotechnology be used to see if an artery is blocked? Or is this just science fiction?

Tom Learns to Cook

Stage: 2 and 3 Challenge Level:

If Tom wants to learn to cook his favourite supper, he needs to make a schedule so that everything is ready at the same time.

Chocolate Cake

Stage: 3 Challenge Level:

If I don't have the size of cake tin specified in my recipe, will the size I do have be OK?

Designing Table Mats

Stage: 3 and 4 Challenge Level:

Formulate and investigate a simple mathematical model for the design of a table mat.

Track Design

Stage: 4 Challenge Level:

Where should runners start the 200m race so that they have all run the same distance by the finish?

Weekly Challenge 20: the Olympic LOGO

Stage: 3, 4 and 5 Short Challenge Level:

A weekly challenge concerning drawing shapes algorithmically.

Mystery Procedure

Stage: 4 Challenge Level:

Can you work out what this procedure is doing?

Making Moiré Patterns

Stage: 3, 4 and 5 Challenge Level:

Moiré patterns are intriguing interference patterns. Create your own beautiful examples using LOGO!

Hmm ... When Should Tom Have Put the Rice on ...

Stage: 3 and 4 Challenge Level:

Creating a schedule to cook a meal consisting of two different recipes, plus rice.

Stemnrich - Technology

Stage: 3 and 4 Challenge Level:

This is the technology section of stemNRICH - Core.

Helicopters

Stage: 2, 3 and 4 Challenge Level:

Design and test a paper helicopter. What is the best design?