These activities all make use of geoboards or pegboards. They supplement the tasks in our Geoboards feature.
problem
Making squares
Age
7 to 11
Challenge level
Investigate all the different squares you can make on this 5 by 5 grid by making your starting side go from the bottom left hand point. Can you find out the areas of all these squares?
problem
Peg rotation
Age
7 to 11
Challenge level
Can you work out what kind of rotation produced this pattern of
pegs in our pegboard?
problem
Triangles all around
Age
7 to 11
Challenge level
Can you find all the different triangles on these peg boards, and find their angles?
problem
Triangle pin-down
Age
7 to 11
Challenge level
Use the interactivity to investigate what kinds of triangles can be
drawn on peg boards with different numbers of pegs.
problem
More transformations on a pegboard
Age
7 to 11
Challenge level
Use the interactivity to find all the different right-angled triangles you can make by just moving one corner of the starting triangle.
problem
Quadrilaterals
Age
7 to 11
Challenge level
How many DIFFERENT quadrilaterals can be made by joining the dots on the 8-point circle?