Position, Direction and Movement

  • Cover the Camel
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    Cover the Camel

    Age
    5 to 7
    Challenge level
    1 out of 3

    Can you cover the camel with these pieces?

  • Turning Man
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    Turning Man

    Age
    5 to 7
    Challenge level
    1 out of 3

    Use the interactivity to find out how many quarter turns the man must rotate through to look like each of the pictures.

  • Turning
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    Turning

    Age
    5 to 7
    Challenge level
    1 out of 3

    Use your mouse to move the red and green parts of this disc. Can you make images which show the turnings described?

  • Walking round a triangle
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    Walking Round a Triangle

    Age
    5 to 7
    Challenge level
    1 out of 3

    This ladybird is taking a walk round a triangle. Can you see how much she has turned when she gets back to where she started?

  • Coloured Squares
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    Coloured Squares

    Age
    5 to 7
    Challenge level
    2 out of 3

    Use the clues to colour each square.

  • Triangle Animals
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    Triangle Animals

    Age
    5 to 7
    Challenge level
    2 out of 3

    How many different ways can you find to join three equilateral triangles together? Can you convince us that you have found them all?

  • 2 Rings
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    2 Rings

    Age
    5 to 7
    Challenge level
    2 out of 3

    The red ring is inside the blue ring in this picture. Can you rearrange the rings in different ways? Perhaps you can overlap them or put one outside another?

  • Olympic rings
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    Olympic Rings

    Age
    5 to 7
    Challenge level
    2 out of 3

    Can you design your own version of the Olympic rings, using interlocking squares instead of circles?

  • Square split into a triangle and trapezium
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    Tangram Tangle

    Age
    5 to 7
    Challenge level
    3 out of 3

    If you split the square into these two pieces, it is possible to fit the pieces together again to make a new shape. How many new shapes can you make?

  • A Cartesian Puzzle
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    A Cartesian Puzzle

    Age
    7 to 11
    Challenge level
    1 out of 3

    Find the missing coordinates which will form these eight quadrilaterals. These coordinates themselves will then form a shape with rotational and line symmetry.