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Use the clues to colour each square.
What happens when you try and fit the triomino pieces into these two grids?
Can you cover the camel with these pieces?
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?
Can you put the 25 coloured tiles into the 5 x 5 square so that no column, no row and no diagonal line have tiles of the same colour in them?
Sort the houses in my street into different groups. Can you do it in any other ways?
NRICH December 2006 advent calendar - a new tangram for each day in the run-up to Christmas.
A tetromino is made up of four squares joined edge to edge. Can this tetromino, together with 15 copies of itself, be used to cover an eight by eight chessboard?
How many different rhythms can you make by putting two drums on the wheel?
Use your mouse to move the red and green parts of this disc. Can you make images which show the turnings described?
Use the interactivity to help get a feel for this problem and to find out all the possible ways the balls could land.
Find out how we can describe the "symmetries" of this triangle and investigate some combinations of rotating and flipping it.
Can you find all the different ways of lining up these Cuisenaire rods?
Our 2008 Advent Calendar has a 'Making Maths' activity for every day in the run-up to Christmas.
There are nine teddies in Teddy Town - three red, three blue and three yellow. There are also nine houses, three of each colour. Can you put them on the map of Teddy Town according to the rules?
Can you work out how to balance this equaliser? You can put more than one weight on a hook.
Is it possible to place 2 counters on the 3 by 3 grid so that there is an even number of counters in every row and every column? How about if you have 3 counters or 4 counters or....?
You have 4 red and 5 blue counters. How many ways can they be placed on a 3 by 3 grid so that all the rows columns and diagonals have an even number of red counters?
Here are some rods that are different colours. How could I make a dark green rod using yellow and white rods?
Hover your mouse over the counters to see which ones will be removed. Click to remover them. The winner is the last one to remove a counter. How you can make sure you win?
Can you put the numbers from 1 to 15 on the circles so that no consecutive numbers lie anywhere along a continuous straight line?
Three beads are threaded on a circular wire and are coloured either red or blue. Can you find all four different combinations?
Cut four triangles from a square as shown in the picture. How many different shapes can you make by fitting the four triangles back together?
Take it in turns to make a triangle on the pegboard. Can you block your opponent?
Use the Cuisenaire rods environment to investigate ratio. Can you find pairs of rods in the ratio 3:2? How about 9:6?
Complete the squares - but be warned some are trickier than they look!
Twenty four games for the run-up to Christmas.
Choose the size of your pegboard and the shapes you can make. Can you work out the strategies needed to block your opponent?
Can you fit the tangram pieces into the outline of this telephone?
Move just three of the circles so that the triangle faces in the opposite direction.
An interactive game to be played on your own or with friends. Imagine you are having a party. Each person takes it in turns to stand behind the chair where they will get the most chocolate.
If you can post the triangle with either the blue or yellow colour face up, how many ways can it be posted altogether?
How many different triangles can you make on a circular pegboard that has nine pegs?
How many trains can you make which are the same length as Matt's, using rods that are identical?
Take it in turns to place a domino on the grid. One to be placed horizontally and the other vertically. Can you make it impossible for your opponent to play?
Try to stop your opponent from being able to split the piles of counters into unequal numbers. Can you find a strategy?
A generic circular pegboard resource.
How many triangles can you make using sticks that are 3cm, 4cm and 5cm long?
Use the interactivity to find all the different right-angled triangles you can make by just moving one corner of the starting triangle.
Explore the different tunes you can make with these five gourds. What are the similarities and differences between the two tunes you are given?
A train building game for 2 players.
Use the interactivity to find out how many quarter turns the man must rotate through to look like each of the pictures.
Can you fit the tangram pieces into the outline of Little Fung at the table?
If there are 3 squares in the ring, can you place three different numbers in them so that their differences are odd? Try with different numbers of squares around the ring. What do you notice?
An interactive game for 1 person. You are given a rectangle with 50 squares on it. Roll the dice to get a percentage between 2 and 100. How many squares is this? Keep going until you get 100. . . .
A variant on the game Alquerque
Ahmed has some wooden planks to use for three sides of a rabbit run against the shed. What quadrilaterals would he be able to make with the planks of different lengths?
A game to be played against the computer, or in groups. Pick a 7-digit number. A random digit is generated. What must you subract to remove the digit from your number? the first to zero wins.
A game for 2 people that can be played on line or with pens and paper. Combine your knowledege of coordinates with your skills of strategic thinking.
How many right angles can you make using two sticks?