Angles, Polygons and Geometrical Proof - Stage 3

Square It

Stage: 3 and 4 Challenge Level: Challenge Level:1

Players take it in turns to choose a dot on the grid. The winner is the first to have four dots that can be joined to form a square.

Square Coordinates

Stage: 3 Challenge Level: Challenge Level:2 Challenge Level:2

A tilted square is a square with no horizontal sides. Can you devise a general instruction for the construction of a square when you are given just one of its sides?

Triangles in Circles

Stage: 3 Challenge Level: Challenge Level:1

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?

Subtended Angles

Stage: 3 Challenge Level: Challenge Level:2 Challenge Level:2

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?

Right Angles

Stage: 3 Challenge Level: Challenge Level:2 Challenge Level:2

Can you make a right-angled triangle on this peg-board by joining up three points round the edge?

Quadrilaterals Game

Stage: 3 Challenge Level: Challenge Level:1

A game for 2 or more people, based on the traditional card game Rummy. Players aim to make two `tricks', where each trick has to consist of a picture of a shape, a name that describes that shape, and two properties of the shape.

Shapely Pairs

Stage: 3 Challenge Level: Challenge Level:3 Challenge Level:3 Challenge Level:3

A game in which players take it in turns to turn up two cards. If they can draw a triangle which satisfies both properties they win the pair of cards. And a few challenging questions to follow...

Property Chart

Stage: 3 Challenge Level: Challenge Level:2 Challenge Level:2

A game in which players take it in turns to try to draw quadrilaterals (or triangles) with particular properties. Is it possible to fill the game grid?

Semi-regular Tessellations

Stage: 3 Challenge Level: Challenge Level:1

Semi-regular tessellations combine two or more different regular polygons to fill the plane. Can you find all the semi-regular tessellations?

Cyclic Quadrilaterals

Stage: 3 Challenge Level: Challenge Level:1

What can you say about the angles on opposite vertices of any cyclic quadrilateral? Working on the building blocks will give you insights that may help you to explain what is special about them.

Which Solids Can We Make?

Stage: 3 Challenge Level: Challenge Level:3 Challenge Level:3 Challenge Level:3

Interior angles can help us to work out which polygons will tessellate. Can we use similar ideas to predict which polygons combine to create semi-regular solids?

Opposite Vertices

Stage: 3 Challenge Level: Challenge Level:2 Challenge Level:2

Can you recreate squares and rhombuses if you are only given a side or a diagonal?

Guess my Quad

Stage: 3 Challenge Level: Challenge Level:1

How many questions do you need to identify my quadrilateral?

Completing Quadrilaterals

Stage: 3 Challenge Level: Challenge Level:1

We started drawing some quadrilaterals - can you complete them?

Of All the Areas

Stage: 4 Challenge Level: Challenge Level:2 Challenge Level:2

Can you find a general rule for finding the areas of equilateral triangles drawn on an isometric grid?

Estimating Angles

Stage: 2, 3 and 4 Challenge Level: Challenge Level:1

How good are you at estimating angles?

Tilted Squares

Stage: 3 Challenge Level: Challenge Level:1

It's easy to work out the areas of most squares that we meet, but what if they were tilted?

Hidden Squares

Stage: 3 Challenge Level: Challenge Level:1

Can you find the squares hidden on these coordinate grids?

Quadrilaterals in a Square

Stage: 3 Challenge Level: Challenge Level:2 Challenge Level:2

What's special about the area of quadrilaterals drawn in a square?

Triangle in the Corner

Stage: 3 Short Challenge Level: Challenge Level:2 Challenge Level:2

A triangle is shaded within a regular hexagon. Can you find its area?

Funky Hexagon

Stage: 3 Short Challenge Level: Challenge Level:2 Challenge Level:2

Can you find the value of x in this diagram?

Perimeter in a Hexagon

Stage: 3 Short Challenge Level: Challenge Level:2 Challenge Level:2

Can you find the perimeter of this triangle inscribed in a hexagon?

Tricky Tessellations

Stage: 3 Short Challenge Level: Challenge Level:2 Challenge Level:2

Can you work out the fraction of the tiles that are painted black in this pattern?

Descending Angles

Stage: 3 Short Challenge Level: Challenge Level:2 Challenge Level:2

Given four of the angles in two triangles, can you find the smallest angle overall?

Clock Face Angles

Stage: 3 Short Challenge Level: Challenge Level:3 Challenge Level:3 Challenge Level:3

The time is 20:14. What is the smaller angle between the hour hand and the minute hand on an accurate analogue clock?

Overlapping Beer Mats

Stage: 3 Short Challenge Level: Challenge Level:1

Can you find the area of the overlap when these two beer mats are placed on top of each other?

Clock Angle

Stage: 3 Short Challenge Level: Challenge Level:3 Challenge Level:3 Challenge Level:3

What is the angle between the the hands of a clock at 8:24?

Two Triangles

Stage: 3 Short Challenge Level: Challenge Level:2 Challenge Level:2

Prove that the angle marked $a$ is half the size of the angle marked $b$.

Inner Rectangle

Stage: 3 Short Challenge Level: Challenge Level:3 Challenge Level:3 Challenge Level:3

If the shape on the inside is a rectangle, what can you say about the shape on the outside?

No Rights

Stage: 3 Short Challenge Level: Challenge Level:3 Challenge Level:3 Challenge Level:3

Prove that the angle bisectors of a triangle can never meet at right angles.

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