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GeoGebra

Sort the Street
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Sort the street

Age
5 to 7
Challenge level
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Sort the houses in my street into different groups. Can you do it in any other ways?

Turning Man
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Turning man

Age
5 to 7
Challenge level
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Use the interactivity to find out how many quarter turns the man must rotate through to look like each of the pictures.

100 Square Jigsaw
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100 square jigsaw

Age
5 to 7
Challenge level
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Can you complete this jigsaw of the 100 square?

Board Block for Two
game

Board block for two

Age
5 to 7
Challenge level
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Board Block game for two. Can you stop your partner from being able to make a shape on the board?

Round Peg Board
interactivity

Round peg board

Age
5 to 11
Challenge level
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A generic circular pegboard resource.
Inside Triangles
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Inside triangles

Age
5 to 7
Challenge level
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How many different triangles can you draw which each have one dot in the middle?

Spinners environment
interactivity

Spinners environment

Age
5 to 18
Challenge level
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A tool for generating random integers.
Board Block
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Board block

Age
5 to 7
Challenge level
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Take it in turns to make a triangle on the pegboard. Can you block your opponent?

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Four triangles puzzle

Age
5 to 11
Challenge level
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Cut four triangles from a square as shown in the picture. How many different shapes can you make by fitting the four triangles back together?

Two-digit targets
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Two-digit targets

Age
5 to 7
Challenge level
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You have a set of the digits from 0 to 9. Can you arrange these in the five boxes to make two-digit numbers as close to the targets as possible?

Find the Difference
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Find the difference

Age
5 to 7
Challenge level
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Place the numbers 1 to 6 in the circles so that each number is the difference between the two numbers just below it.

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Teddy Town

Age
5 to 11
Challenge level
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There are nine teddies in Teddy Town - three red, three blue and three yellow. There are also nine houses, three of each colour. Can you put them on the map of Teddy Town according to the rules?

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Ladybird box

Age
5 to 11
Challenge level
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Place six toy ladybirds into the box so that there are two ladybirds in every column and every row.

Colouring Triangles
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Colouring triangles

Age
5 to 7
Challenge level
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Explore ways of colouring this set of triangles. Can you make symmetrical patterns?

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Teddy Town - part two

Age
5 to 11
Challenge level
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There are nine teddies in Teddy Town - three red, three blue and three yellow. There are also nine houses, three of each colour. Can you put them on the map of Teddy Town according to the rules?

Three Way Mix Up
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Three way mix up

Age
5 to 11
Challenge level
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Jack has nine tiles. He put them together to make a square so that two tiles of the same colour were not beside each other. Can you find another way to do it?

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Teddy Town - part three

Age
5 to 11
Challenge level
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There are sixteen teddies in Teddy Town - four red, four blue, four yellow and four green. There are also sixteen houses, four of each colour. Can you put them on the map of Teddy Town according to the rules?

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Teddy Town - part four

Age
5 to 11
Challenge level
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There are twenty five teddies in Teddy Town - five red, five blue, five yellow, five green and five purple. There are also twenty five houses, five of each colour. Can you put them on the map of Teddy Town according to the rules?

Change Around
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Change around

Age
5 to 7
Challenge level
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Move just three of the circles so that the triangle faces in the opposite direction.
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Teddy Town - part five

Age
5 to 11
Challenge level
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There are thirty six teddies in Teddy Town - six red, six blue, six yellow, six green, six purple and six turquoise. There are also thirty six houses, six of each colour. Can you put them on the map of Teddy Town according to the rules?

Coloured Squares
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Coloured squares

Age
5 to 7
Challenge level
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Use the clues to colour each square.

Three Squares
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Three squares

Age
5 to 11
Challenge level
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What is the greatest number of squares you can make by overlapping three squares?

4 Dom
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4 dom

Age
5 to 11
Challenge level
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Use these four dominoes to make a square that has the same number of dots on each side.

Virtual Geoboard
interactivity
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Virtual geoboard

Age
7 to 16

A virtual geoboard that allows you to create shapes by stretching rubber bands between pegs on the board. Allows a variable number of pegs and variable grid geometry and includes a point labeller.

Twice as Big?
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Twice as big?

Age
7 to 11
Challenge level
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Investigate how the four L-shapes fit together to make an enlarged L-shape. You could explore this idea with other shapes too.

Sliding Game
game

Sliding game

Age
7 to 11
Challenge level
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A shunting puzzle for 1 person. Swop the positions of the counters at the top and bottom of the board.
Which Scripts?
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Which scripts?

Age
7 to 11
Challenge level
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There are six numbers written in five different scripts. Can you sort out which is which?

Estimating angles
game
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Estimating angles

Age
7 to 14
Challenge level
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How good are you at estimating angles?

Arrangements
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Arrangements

Age
7 to 11
Challenge level
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Is it possible to place 2 counters on the 3 by 3 grid so that there is an even number of counters in every row and every column? How about if you have 3 counters or 4 counters or....?
Tessellation interactivity
interactivity
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Tessellation interactivity

Age
7 to 16
Challenge level
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An environment that enables you to investigate tessellations of regular polygons
Nine-Pin Triangles
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Nine-pin triangles

Age
7 to 11
Challenge level
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How many different triangles can you make on a circular pegboard that has nine pegs?

Square Corners
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Square corners

Age
7 to 11
Challenge level
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What is the greatest number of counters you can place on the grid below without four of them lying at the corners of a square?

Four-digit targets
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Four-digit targets

Age
7 to 11
Challenge level
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You have two sets of the digits 0-9. Can you arrange these in the five boxes to make four-digit numbers as close to the target numbers as possible?

1, 2, 3 Magic Square
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1, 2, 3 magic square

Age
7 to 11
Challenge level
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Arrange three 1s, three 2s and three 3s in this square so that every row, column and diagonal adds to the same total.
A Square of Numbers
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A square of numbers

Age
7 to 11
Challenge level
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Can you put the numbers 1 to 8 into the circles so that the four calculations are correct?

Coded hundred square
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Coded hundred square

Age
7 to 11
Challenge level
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This 100 square jigsaw is written in code. It starts with 1 and ends with 100. Can you build it up?

Fractional Triangles
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Fractional triangles

Age
7 to 11
Challenge level
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Use the lines on this figure to show how the square can be divided into 2 halves, 3 thirds, 6 sixths and 9 ninths.

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Number sandwiches

Age
7 to 14
Challenge level
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Can you arrange the digits 1, 1, 2, 2, 3 and 3 to make a Number Sandwich?

Flip
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Flip

Age
7 to 11
Challenge level
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Can you picture where this letter "F" will be on the grid if you flip it in these different ways?
Colour in the Square
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Colour in the square

Age
7 to 16
Challenge level
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Can you put the 25 coloured tiles into the 5 x 5 square so that no column, no row and no diagonal line have tiles of the same colour in them?
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Geoboards

Age
7 to 11
Challenge level
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This practical challenge invites you to investigate the different squares you can make on a square geoboard or pegboard.
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Factor lines

Age
7 to 14
Challenge level
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Arrange the four number cards on the grid, according to the rules, to make a diagonal, vertical or horizontal line.

Number Lines in Disguise
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Number lines in disguise

Age
7 to 14
Challenge level
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Some of the numbers have fallen off Becky's number line. Can you figure out what they were?

More Transformations on a Pegboard
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More transformations on a pegboard

Age
7 to 11
Challenge level
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Use the interactivity to find all the different right-angled triangles you can make by just moving one corner of the starting triangle.

Board Block Challenge for Two
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Board block challenge for two

Age
7 to 11
Challenge level
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Board Block Challenge game for an adult and child. Can you prevent your partner from being able to make a shape?
Dotty Circle
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Dotty circle

Age
7 to 11
Challenge level
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Watch this film carefully. Can you find a general rule for explaining when the dot will be this same distance from the horizontal axis?
Triangles all Around
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Triangles all around

Age
7 to 11
Challenge level
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Can you find all the different triangles on these peg boards, and find their angles?

Triangle Pin-Down
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Triangle pin-down

Age
7 to 11
Challenge level
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Use the interactivity to investigate what kinds of triangles can be drawn on peg boards with different numbers of pegs.
Difference
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Difference

Age
7 to 11
Challenge level
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Place the numbers 1 to 10 in the circles so that each number is the difference between the two numbers just below it.
Quadrilaterals
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Quadrilaterals

Age
7 to 11
Challenge level
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How many DIFFERENT quadrilaterals can be made by joining the dots on the 8-point circle?

Board Block Challenge
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Board block challenge

Age
7 to 11
Challenge level
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Choose the size of your pegboard and the shapes you can make. Can you work out the strategies needed to block your opponent?

Exploring Diagonals
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Exploring diagonals

Age
11 to 16

Move the corner of the rectangle. Can you work out what the purple number represents?

Coordinates of corners
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Coordinates of corners

Age
11 to 16
Use the applet to make some squares. What patterns do you notice in the coordinates?
Areas from Vectors
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Areas from vectors

Age
11 to 16
Use the applet to explore the area of a parallelogram and how it relates to vectors.
Using GeoGebra
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Using GeoGebra

Never used GeoGebra before? This article for complete beginners will help you to get started with this free dynamic geometry software.

What does random look like?
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What does random look like?

Age
11 to 14
Challenge level
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Engage in a little mathematical detective work to see if you can spot the fakes.

Isosceles Triangles
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Isosceles triangles

Age
11 to 14
Challenge level
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Draw some isosceles triangles with an area of $9$cm$^2$ and a vertex at (20,20). If all the vertices must have whole number coordinates, how many is it possible to draw?

Parallel lines
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Parallel lines

Age
11 to 14
Challenge level
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How does the position of the line affect the equation of the line? What can you say about the equations of parallel lines?

Polygon Rings
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Polygon rings

Age
11 to 14
Challenge level
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Join pentagons together edge to edge. Will they form a ring?

Round and round and round
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Round and round and round

Age
11 to 14
Challenge level
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Where will the point stop after it has turned through 30 000 degrees? I took out my calculator and typed 30 000 ÷ 360. How did this help?

Sliding Rectangles
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Sliding rectangles

Age
11 to 16
Challenge level
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Which of the two rectangles has the greater area?
Partitioning revisited
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Partitioning revisited

Age
11 to 14
Challenge level
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We can show that (x + 1)² = x² + 2x + 1 by considering the area of an (x + 1) by (x + 1) square. Show in a similar way that (x + 2)² = x² + 4x + 4
Triangles in circles
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Triangles in circles

Age
11 to 14
Challenge level
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Can you find triangles on a 9-point circle? Can you work out their angles?

Interactive Spinners
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Interactive spinners

Age
11 to 14
Challenge level
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This interactivity invites you to make conjectures and explore probabilities of outcomes related to two independent events.

Reflecting Squarely
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Reflecting squarely

Age
11 to 14
Challenge level
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In how many ways can you fit all three pieces together to make shapes with line symmetry?

Reflecting Lines
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Reflecting lines

Age
11 to 14
Challenge level
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Investigate what happens to the equations of different lines when you reflect them in one of the axes. Try to predict what will happen. Explain your findings.

Translating Lines
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Translating lines

Age
11 to 14
Challenge level
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Investigate what happens to the equation of different lines when you translate them. Try to predict what will happen. Explain your findings.

How far does it move?
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How far does it move?

Age
11 to 14
Challenge level
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Experiment with the interactivity of "rolling" regular polygons, and explore how the different positions of the dot affects the distance it travels at each stage.

Semi-regular Tessellations
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Semi-regular tessellations

Age
11 to 16
Challenge level
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Semi-regular tessellations combine two or more different regular polygons to fill the plane. Can you find all the semi-regular tessellations?

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Cyclic quadrilaterals

Age
11 to 16
Challenge level
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Draw some quadrilaterals on a 9-point circle and work out the angles. Is there a theorem?

Diminishing Returns
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Diminishing returns

Age
11 to 14
Challenge level
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How much of the square is coloured blue? How will the pattern continue?

Is there a theorem?
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Is there a theorem?

Age
11 to 14
Challenge level
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Draw a square. A second square of the same size slides around the first always maintaining contact and keeping the same orientation. How far does the dot travel?
Anti-Magic Square
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Anti-magic square

Age
11 to 14
Challenge level
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You may have met Magic Squares, now meet an Anti-Magic Square. Its properties are slightly different - can you still solve it?
Shear Magic
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Shear magic

Age
11 to 14
Challenge level
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Explore the area of families of parallelograms and triangles. Can you find rules to work out the areas?

Same length
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Same length

Age
11 to 16
Challenge level
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Construct two equilateral triangles on a straight line. There are two lengths that look the same - can you prove it?

Square coordinates
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Square coordinates

Age
11 to 14
Challenge level
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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?

Power Crazy
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Power crazy

Age
11 to 14
Challenge level
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What can you say about the values of n that make $7^n + 3^n$ a multiple of 10? Are there other pairs of integers between 1 and 10 which have similar properties?
Subtended angles
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Subtended angles

Age
11 to 14
Challenge level
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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?

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Right angles

Age
11 to 14
Challenge level
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Can you make a right-angled triangle on this peg-board by joining up three points round the edge?

More Twisting and Turning
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More twisting and turning

Age
11 to 16
Challenge level
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It would be nice to have a strategy for disentangling any tangled ropes...

The Farmers' Field Boundary
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The farmers' field boundary

Age
11 to 14
Challenge level
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The farmers want to redraw their field boundary but keep the area the same. Can you advise them?

Robotic Rotations
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Robotic rotations

Age
11 to 16
Challenge level
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How did the the rotation robot make these patterns?

Mixing Paints
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Mixing paints

Age
11 to 14
Challenge level
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Can you work out how to produce different shades of pink paint?

Bow Tie
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Bow tie

Age
11 to 14
Challenge level
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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.
Pythagoras Proofs
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Pythagoras proofs

Age
11 to 16
Challenge level
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Can you make sense of these three proofs of Pythagoras' Theorem?

Speeding up, slowing down
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Speeding up, slowing down

Age
11 to 14
Challenge level
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Experiment with the interactivity of "rolling" regular polygons, and explore how the different positions of the dot affects its speed at each stage.

Farey Sequences
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Farey sequences

Age
11 to 14
Challenge level
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There are lots of ideas to explore in these sequences of ordered fractions.

Rolling Around
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Rolling around

Age
11 to 14
Challenge level
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A circle rolls around the outside edge of a square so that its circumference always touches the edge of the square. Can you describe the locus of the centre of the circle?
Magic potting sheds
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Magic potting sheds

Age
11 to 16
Challenge level
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Mr McGregor has a magic potting shed. Overnight, the number of plants in it doubles. He'd like to put the same number of plants in each of three gardens, planting one garden each day. Can he do it?
More Magic Potting sheds
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More magic potting sheds

Age
11 to 16
Challenge level
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The number of plants in Mr McGregor's magic potting shed increases overnight. He'd like to put the same number of plants in each of his gardens, planting one garden each day. How can he do it?
Nine Colours
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Nine colours

Age
11 to 16
Challenge level
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Can you use small coloured cubes to make a 3 by 3 by 3 cube so that each face of the bigger cube contains one of each colour?

Up and across
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Up and across

Age
11 to 14
Challenge level
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Experiment with the interactivity of "rolling" regular polygons, and explore how the different positions of the dot affects its vertical and horizontal movement at each stage.

Rollin' Rollin' Rollin'
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Rollin' rollin' rollin'

Age
11 to 14
Challenge level
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Two circles of equal radius touch at P. One circle is fixed whilst the other moves, rolling without slipping, all the way round. How many times does the moving coin revolve before returning to P?