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Try this interactive strategy game for 2
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.
Can you fit the tangram pieces into the outline of Wai Ping, Wah Ming and Chi Wing?
Can you fit the tangram pieces into the outline of Mai Ling?
Can you fit the tangram pieces into the outline of this junk?
What happens when you try and fit the triomino pieces into these two grids?
Can you fit the tangram pieces into the outline of Little Ming?
Can you cover the camel with these pieces?
Can you fit the tangram pieces into the outline of the rocket?
Can you fit the tangram pieces into the outline of this sports car?
Can you fit the tangram pieces into the outline of this plaque design?
Sort the houses in my street into different groups. Can you do it in any other ways?
If you can post the triangle with either the blue or yellow colour face up, how many ways can it be posted altogether?
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 fit the tangram pieces into the outline of this telephone?
Can you fit the tangram pieces into the outline of the child walking home from school?
Can you fit the tangram pieces into the outlines of these clocks?
Can you fit the tangram pieces into the outlines of the lobster, yacht and cyclist?
Can you fit the tangram pieces into the outlines of the chairs?
Find out how we can describe the "symmetries" of this triangle and investigate some combinations of rotating and flipping it.
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 outlines of these people?
Can you fit the tangram pieces into the outline of this goat and giraffe?
Use your mouse to move the red and green parts of this disc. Can you make images which show the turnings described?
Can you fit the tangram pieces into the outline of Little Fung at the table?
Can you fit the tangram pieces into the outline of this brazier for roasting chestnuts?
Can you fit the tangram pieces into the outline of Granma T?
Can you fit the tangram pieces into the outlines of the candle and sundial?
Can you make the green spot travel through the tube by moving the yellow spot? Could you draw a tube that both spots would follow?
Can you fit the tangram pieces into the outlines of Mai Ling and Chi Wing?
Can you fit the tangram pieces into the outline of the telescope and microscope?
NRICH December 2006 advent calendar - a new tangram for each day in the run-up to Christmas.
Can you fit the tangram pieces into the outline of this shape. How would you describe it?
Can you fit the tangram pieces into the outline of Little Ming playing the board game?
Create a pattern on the left-hand grid. How could you extend your pattern on the right-hand grid?
Can you fit the tangram pieces into the outlines of the watering can and man in a boat?
Use the blue spot to help you move the yellow spot from one star to the other. How are the trails of the blue and yellow spots related?
Can you fit the tangram pieces into the outline of these convex shapes?
Can you fit the tangram pieces into the outline of these rabbits?
Can you fit the tangram pieces into the outline of Little Ming and Little Fung dancing?
Our 2008 Advent Calendar has a 'Making Maths' activity for every day in the run-up to Christmas.
Use the clues to colour each square.
Can you fit the tangram pieces into the outlines of the workmen?
What is the greatest number of squares you can make by overlapping three squares?
You'll need two dice to play this game against a partner. Will Incey Wincey make it to the top of the drain pipe or the bottom of the drain pipe first?
The computer has made a rectangle and will tell you the number of spots it uses in total. Can you find out where the rectangle is?
Play a dice game of chance
Choose 13 spots on the grid. Can you work out the scoring system? What is the maximum possible score?
These interactive dominoes can be dragged around the screen.