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Show that for any triangle it is always possible to construct 3 touching circles with centres at the vertices. Is it possible to construct touching circles centred at the vertices of any polygon?
Find the vertices of a pentagon given the midpoints of its sides.
To avoid losing think of another very well known game where the patterns of play are similar.
Can you make a right-angled triangle on this peg-board by joining up three points round the edge?
A metal puzzle which led to some mathematical questions.
If you continue the pattern, can you predict what each of the following areas will be? Try to explain your prediction.
When number pyramids have a sequence on the bottom layer, some interesting patterns emerge...
Use Excel to explore multiplication of fractions.
Help the bee to build a stack of blocks far enough to save his friend trapped in the tower.
Can you give the coordinates of the vertices of the fifth point in the patterm on this 3D grid?
A group of interactive resources to support work on percentages Key Stage 4.
Can you beat the computer in the challenging strategy game?
Players take it in turns to choose a dot on the grid. The winner is the first to have four dots that can be joined to form a square.
A collection of resources to support work on Factors and Multiples at Secondary level.
What are the areas of these triangles? What do you notice? Can you generalise to other "families" of triangles?
Can you discover whether this is a fair game?
The interactive diagram has two labelled points, A and B. It is designed to be used with the problem "Cushion Ball"
Draw some isosceles triangles with an area of $9$cm$^2$ and a vertex at (20,20). If all the vertices must have whole number coordinates, how many is it possible to draw?
Discover a handy way to describe reorderings and solve our anagram in the process.
Start with any number of counters in any number of piles. 2 players take it in turns to remove any number of counters from a single pile. The winner is the player to take the last counter.
An environment that enables you to investigate tessellations of regular polygons
Match pairs of cards so that they have equivalent ratios.
This resource contains a range of problems and interactivities on the theme of coordinates in two and three dimensions.
Do you know how to find the area of a triangle? You can count the squares. What happens if we turn the triangle on end? Press the button and see. Try counting the number of units in the triangle now. . . .
Use Excel to investigate the effect of translations around a number grid.
A circle rolls around the outside edge of a square so that its circumference always touches the edge of the square. Can you describe the locus of the centre of the circle?
The aim of the game is to slide the green square from the top right hand corner to the bottom left hand corner in the least number of moves.
This is an interactivity in which you have to sort the steps in the completion of the square into the correct order to prove the formula for the solutions of quadratic equations.
Place a red counter in the top left corner of a 4x4 array, which is covered by 14 other smaller counters, leaving a gap in the bottom right hand corner (HOME). What is the smallest number of moves. . . .
Use an interactive Excel spreadsheet to explore number in this exciting game!
A tool for generating random integers.
P is a point on the circumference of a circle radius r which rolls, without slipping, inside a circle of radius 2r. What is the locus of P?
A collection of our favourite pictorial problems, one for each day of Advent.
Here is a chance to play a fractions version of the classic Countdown Game.
There are 27 small cubes in a 3 x 3 x 3 cube, 54 faces being visible at any one time. Is it possible to reorganise these cubes so that by dipping the large cube into a pot of paint three times you. . . .
This game challenges you to locate hidden triangles in The White Box by firing rays and observing where the rays exit the Box.
You can move the 4 pieces of the jigsaw and fit them into both outlines. Explain what has happened to the missing one unit of area.
Use an Excel to investigate division. Explore the relationships between the process elements using an interactive spreadsheet.
A simple spinner that is equally likely to land on Red or Black. Useful if tossing a coin, dropping it, and rummaging about on the floor have lost their appeal. Needs a modern browser; if IE then at. . . .
The classic vector racing game brought to a screen near you.
A point P is selected anywhere inside an equilateral triangle. What can you say about the sum of the perpendicular distances from P to the sides of the triangle? Can you prove your conjecture?
A right-angled isosceles triangle is rotated about the centre point of a square. What can you say about the area of the part of the square covered by the triangle as it rotates?
An environment that simulates a protractor carrying a right- angled triangle of unit hypotenuse.
This set of resources for teachers offers interactive environments to support work on loci at Key Stage 4.
Use Excel to practise adding and subtracting fractions.
Use an interactive Excel spreadsheet to investigate factors and multiples.
Match the cards of the same value.
A simple file for the Interactive whiteboard or PC screen, demonstrating equivalent fractions.
Use an Excel spreadsheet to explore long multiplication.
An Excel spreadsheet with an investigation.