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Geoboards

Virtual Geoboard
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Virtual Geoboard

A virtual geoboard that allows you to create shapes by stretching rubber bands between pegs on the board. Allows a variable number of pegs and variable grid geometry and includes a point labeller.
Geoboards
interactivity

Geoboards

Geogebra square, circular and rectangular geoboards.
Take a ... Geoboard
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Take a ... Geoboard

This article for teachers explains why geoboards are such an invaluable resource and introduces several tasks which make use of them.
Board Block
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Board Block

Age
5 to 7
Challenge level
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Take it in turns to make a triangle on the pegboard. Can you block your opponent?
Inside Triangles
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Inside Triangles

Age
5 to 7
Challenge level
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How many different triangles can you draw on the dotty grid which each have one dot in the middle?
Happy Halving
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Happy Halving

Age
5 to 7
Challenge level
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Can you split each of the shapes below in half so that the two parts are exactly the same?

Transformations on a Pegboard
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Transformations on a Pegboard

Age
7 to 11
Challenge level
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How would you move the bands on the pegboard to alter these shapes?
Nine-Pin Triangles
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Nine-Pin Triangles

Age
7 to 11
Challenge level
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How many different triangles can you make on a circular pegboard that has nine pegs?

Pebbles
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Pebbles

Age
7 to 11
Challenge level
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Place four pebbles on the sand in the form of a square. Keep adding as few pebbles as necessary to double the area. How many extra pebbles are added each time?

Board Block Challenge
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Board Block Challenge

Age
7 to 11
Challenge level
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Choose the size of your pegboard and the shapes you can make. Can you work out the strategies needed to block your opponent?

Peg and Pin Boards
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Peg and Pin Boards

This article for teachers suggests activities based on pegboards, from pattern generation to finding all possible triangles, for example.