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Which times on a digital clock have a line of symmetry? Which look the same upside-down? You might like to try this investigation and find out!
In how many ways can you stack these rods, following the rules?
How many different ways can you find of fitting five hexagons together? How will you know you have found all the ways?
This article for teachers suggests ideas for activities built around 10 and 2010.
What is the missing symbol? Can you decode this in a similar way?
Can you recreate this Indian screen pattern? Can you make up similar patterns of your own?
These clocks have been reflected in a mirror. What times do they say?
A challenging activity focusing on finding all possible ways of stacking rods.
What are the coordinates of this shape after it has been transformed in the ways described? Compare these with the original coordinates. What do you notice about the numbers?
Where can you put the mirror across the square so that you can still "see" the whole square? How many different positions are possible?
A shape and space game for 2,3 or 4 players. Be the last person to be able to place a pentomino piece on the playing board. Play with card, or on the computer.
What happens to these capital letters when they are rotated through one half turn, or flipped sideways and from top to bottom?
How will you decide which way of flipping over and/or turning the grid will give you the highest total?
This problem explores the shapes and symmetries in some national flags.
How many different symmetrical shapes can you make by shading triangles or squares?
This article describes a practical approach to enhance the teaching and learning of coordinates.
Numbers arranged in a square but some exceptional spatial awareness probably needed.
Why not challenge a friend to play this transformation game?
Can you explain why it is impossible to construct this triangle?
Sort the frieze patterns into seven pairs according to the way in which the motif is repeated.
Some local pupils lost a geometric opportunity recently as they surveyed the cars in the car park. Did you know that car tyres, and the wheels that they on, are a rich source of geometry?
In how many ways can you fit all three pieces together to make shapes with line symmetry?
See the effects of some combined transformations on a shape. Can you describe what the individual transformations do?
I took the graph y=4x+7 and performed four transformations. Can you find the order in which I could have carried out the transformations?
Proofs that there are only seven frieze patterns involve complicated group theory. The symmetries of a cylinder provide an easier approach.
Explore the effect of reflecting in two intersecting mirror lines.
Does changing the order of transformations always/sometimes/never produce the same transformation?
How many different transformations can you find made up from combinations of R, S and their inverses? Can you be sure that you have found them all?
Explore the effect of reflecting in two parallel mirror lines.
Plex lets you specify a mapping between points and their images. Then you can draw and see the transformed image.
This article describes the scope for practical exploration of tessellations both in and out of the classroom. It seems a golden opportunity to link art with maths, allowing the creative side of your. . . .
Patterns that repeat in a line are strangely interesting. How many types are there and how do you tell one type from another?
A gallery of beautiful photos of cast ironwork friezes in Australia with a mathematical discussion of the classification of frieze patterns.
Investigate what happens to the equations of different lines when you reflect them in one of the axes. Try to predict what will happen. Explain your findings.