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Charlie likes tablecloths that use as many colours as possible, but insists that his tablecloths have some symmetry. Can you work out how many colours he needs for different tablecloth designs?
This resources contains a series of interactivities designed to support work on transformations at Key Stage 4.
A group of interactive resources to support work on percentages Key Stage 4.
Triangle ABC has equilateral triangles drawn on its edges. Points P, Q and R are the centres of the equilateral triangles. What can you prove about the triangle PQR?
Use an interactive Excel spreadsheet to explore number in this exciting game!
A simple file for the Interactive whiteboard or PC screen, demonstrating equivalent fractions.
Use Excel to practise adding and subtracting fractions.
Use an interactive Excel spreadsheet to investigate factors and multiples.
Use an Excel spreadsheet to explore long multiplication.
Help the bee to build a stack of blocks far enough to save his friend trapped in the tower.
Use Excel to explore multiplication of fractions.
The interactive diagram has two labelled points, A and B. It is designed to be used with the problem "Cushion Ball"
This set of resources for teachers offers interactive environments to support work on loci at Key Stage 4.
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.
Can you give the coordinates of the vertices of the fifth point in the patterm on this 3D grid?
Can you make a right-angled triangle on this peg-board by joining up three points round the edge?
An Excel spreadsheet with an investigation.
Use Excel to investigate the effect of translations around a number grid.
A collection of our favourite pictorial problems, one for each day of Advent.
A tool for generating random integers.
This game challenges you to locate hidden triangles in The White Box by firing rays and observing where the rays exit the Box.
The classic vector racing game brought to a screen near you.
Here is a chance to play a fractions version of the classic Countdown Game.
Find the vertices of a pentagon given the midpoints of its sides.
There are thirteen axes of rotational symmetry of a unit cube. Describe them all. What is the average length of the parts of the axes of symmetry which lie inside the cube?
Two circles of equal radius touch at P. One circle is fixed whilst the other moves, rolling without slipping, all the way round. How many times does the moving coin revolve before returning to P?
Use an Excel to investigate division. Explore the relationships between the process elements using an interactive spreadsheet.
A metal puzzle which led to some mathematical questions.
Overlaying pentominoes can produce some effective patterns. Why not use LOGO to try out some of the ideas suggested here?
A red square and a blue square overlap so that the corner of the red square rests on the centre of the blue square. Show that, whatever the orientation of the red square, it covers a quarter of the. . . .
On the 3D grid a strange (and deadly) animal is lurking. Using the tracking system can you locate this creature as quickly as possible?
Rotate a copy of the trapezium about the centre of the longest side of the blue triangle to make a square. Find the area of the square and then derive a formula for the area of the trapezium.
This resource contains interactive problems to support work on number sequences at Key Stage 4.
How good are you at finding the formula for a number pattern ?
Match the cards of the same value.
An environment that enables you to investigate tessellations of regular polygons
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. . . .
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. . . .
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.
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. . . .
A collection of resources to support work on Factors and Multiples at Secondary level.
An environment that simulates a protractor carrying a right- angled triangle of unit hypotenuse.
Discover a handy way to describe reorderings and solve our anagram in the process.
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?
Can you beat the computer in the challenging strategy game?
A java applet that takes you through the steps needed to solve a Diophantine equation of the form Px+Qy=1 using Euclid's algorithm.
To avoid losing think of another very well known game where the patterns of play are similar.
When number pyramids have a sequence on the bottom layer, some interesting patterns emerge...