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Experiment with the interactivity of "rolling" regular polygons, and explore how the different positions of the red dot affects its vertical and horizontal movement at each stage.
Experiment with the interactivity of "rolling" regular polygons, and explore how the different positions of the red dot affects its speed at each stage.
Two engines, at opposite ends of a single track railway line, set off towards one another just as a fly, sitting on the front of one of the engines, sets off flying along the railway line...
Experiment with the interactivity of "rolling" regular polygons, and explore how the different positions of the red dot affects the distance it travels at each stage.
Use your skill and knowledge to place various scientific lengths in order of size. Can you judge the length of objects with sizes ranging from 1 Angstrom to 1 million km with no wrong attempts?
This set of resources for teachers offers interactive environments to support work on graphical interpretation at Key Stage 4.
Practice your skills of measurement and estimation using this interactive measurement tool based around fascinating images from biology.
Use the computer to model an epidemic. Try out public health policies to control the spread of the epidemic, to minimise the number of sick days and deaths.
Which dilutions can you make using only 10ml pipettes?
It is possible to identify a particular card out of a pack of 15 with the use of some mathematical reasoning. What is this reasoning and can it be applied to other numbers of cards?
Semi-regular tessellations combine two or more different regular polygons to fill the plane. Can you find all the semi-regular tessellations?
Match pairs of cards so that they have equivalent ratios.
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 Excel to explore multiplication of fractions.
This resource contains interactive problems to support work on number sequences at Key Stage 4.
What is the relationship between the angle at the centre and the angles at the circumference, for angles which stand on the same arc? Can you prove it?
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?
This resource contains a range of problems and interactivities on the theme of coordinates in two and three dimensions.
Euler discussed whether or not it was possible to stroll around Koenigsberg crossing each of its seven bridges exactly once. Experiment with different numbers of islands and bridges.
An environment that enables you to investigate tessellations of regular polygons
Use an interactive Excel spreadsheet to explore number in this exciting game!
Can you give the coordinates of the vertices of the fifth point in the patterm on this 3D grid?
Explore displacement/time and velocity/time graphs with this mouse motion sensor.
This set of resources for teachers offers interactive environments to support work on loci at Key Stage 4.
A ladder 3m long rests against a wall with one end a short distance from its base. Between the wall and the base of a ladder is a garden storage box 1m tall and 1m high. What is the maximum. . . .
The interactive diagram has two labelled points, A and B. It is designed to be used with the problem "Cushion Ball"
Can you make a right-angled triangle on this peg-board by joining up three points round the edge?
A group of interactive resources to support work on percentages Key Stage 4.
Which dilutions can you make using 10ml pipettes and 100ml measuring cylinders?
A collection of our favourite pictorial problems, one for each day of Advent.
Can you fill in the mixed up numbers in this dilution calculation?
A simple file for the Interactive whiteboard or PC screen, demonstrating equivalent fractions.
This game challenges you to locate hidden triangles in The White Box by firing rays and observing where the rays exit the Box.
Can you break down this conversion process into logical steps?
Which exact dilution ratios can you make using only 2 dilutions?
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.
Use an interactive Excel spreadsheet to investigate factors and multiples.
An Excel spreadsheet with an investigation.
Use an Excel spreadsheet to explore long multiplication.
Use an Excel to investigate division. Explore the relationships between the process elements using an interactive spreadsheet.
How many different triangles can you make which consist of the centre point and two of the points on the edge? Can you work out each of their angles?
Use Excel to practise adding and subtracting fractions.
To avoid losing think of another very well known game where the patterns of play are similar.
Try entering different sets of numbers in the number pyramids. How does the total at the top change?
Triangle numbers can be represented by a triangular array of squares. What do you notice about the sum of identical triangle numbers?
A game for 2 players that can be played online. Players take it in turns to select a word from the 9 words given. The aim is to select all the occurrences of the same letter.
Four cards are shuffled and placed into two piles of two. Starting with the first pile of cards - turn a card over... You win if all your cards end up in the trays before you run out of cards in. . . .
A counter is placed in the bottom right hand corner of a grid. You toss a coin and move the star according to the following rules: ... What is the probability that you end up in the top left-hand. . . .
Can you spot the similarities between this game and other games you know? The aim is to choose 3 numbers that total 15.