Exploring the geometrical strands of the National Curriculum in a problem-solving context

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

Try continuing these patterns made from triangles. Can you create your own repeating pattern?

Can you find a reliable strategy for choosing coordinates that will locate the treasure in the minimum number of guesses?

Use the information on these cards to draw the shape that is being described.

Sally and Ben were drawing shapes in chalk on the school playground. Can you work out what shapes each of them drew using the clues?

Each of the nets of nine solid shapes has been cut into two pieces. Can you see which pieces go together?

On the graph there are 28 marked points. These points all mark the vertices (corners) of eight hidden squares. Can you find the eight hidden squares?

This task looks at the different turns involved in different Olympic sports as a way of exploring the mathematics of turns and angles.