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Arclets Explained

This article gives an wonderful insight into students working on the Arclets problem that first appeared in the Sept 2002 edition of the NRICH website.

Bow Tie

Show how this pentagonal tile can be used to tile the plane and describe the transformations which map this pentagon to its images in the tiling.

Star Polygons

Age 11 to 14
Challenge Level
If you know the five interior angles of the pentagon, what other angles can you work out?
What do you know about the angle sum of a pentagon?
Could algebra help?
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