Visualising and representing

  • Tetrahedra Tester
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    Tetrahedra Tester

    Age
    14 to 16
    Challenge level
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    An irregular tetrahedron is composed of four different triangles. Can such a tetrahedron be constructed where the side lengths are 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9 units of length?

  • Inside Out
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    Inside Out

    Age
    14 to 16
    Challenge level
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    There are 27 small cubes in a 3 × 3 × 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 can colour every face of all of the smaller cubes?

  • Triangles within Squares
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    Triangles Within Squares

    Age
    14 to 16
    Challenge level
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    Can you find a rule which relates triangular numbers to square numbers?

  • Cubic Covering
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    Cubic Covering

    Age
    14 to 16
    Challenge level
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    A blue cube has blue cubes glued on all of its faces. Yellow cubes are then glued onto all the visible blue facces. How many yellow cubes are needed?

  • Making Tracks
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    Making Tracks

    Age
    14 to 16
    Challenge level
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    A bicycle passes along a path and leaves some tracks. Is it possible to say which track was made by the front wheel and which by the back wheel?

  • bio graphs
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    Bio Graphs

    Age
    14 to 16
    Challenge level
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    What biological growth processes can you fit to these graphs?

  • Summing squares
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    Summing Squares

    Age
    14 to 16
    Challenge level
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    Discover a way to sum square numbers by building cuboids from small cubes. Can you picture how the sequence will grow?
  • Painted Purple
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    Painted Purple

    Age
    14 to 16
    Challenge level
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    Three faces of a $3 \times 3$ cube are painted red, and the other three are painted blue. How many of the 27 smaller cubes have at least one red and at least one blue face?

  • Facial Sums
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    Facial Sums

    Age
    14 to 16
    Challenge level
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    Can you make the numbers around each face of this solid add up to the same total?

  • Folding in Half
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    Folding in Half

    Age
    14 to 16
    Challenge level
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    How does the perimeter change when we fold this isosceles triangle in half?