
Solving together - estimating angles
Week 2
How well can you estimate angles? Playing this game could improve your skills.

Tessellating triangles

Tessellating quadrilaterals

Sort the street
Sort the houses in my street into different groups. Can you do it in any other ways?

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


Board block for two
Board Block game for two. Can you stop your partner from being able to make a shape on the board?


Inside triangles
How many different triangles can you draw which each have one dot in the middle?


Board block
Take it in turns to make a triangle on the pegboard. Can you block your opponent?

Four triangles puzzle
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
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
Place the numbers 1 to 6 in the circles so that each number is the difference between the two numbers just below it.

Teddy Town
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?

Ladybird box
Place six toy ladybirds into the box so that there are two ladybirds in every column and every row.

Colouring triangles
Explore ways of colouring this set of triangles. Can you make symmetrical patterns?

Teddy Town - part two
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
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?

Teddy Town - part three
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?

Teddy Town - part four
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

Teddy Town - part five
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?


Three squares
What is the greatest number of squares you can make by overlapping three squares?

4 dom
Use these four dominoes to make a square that has the same number of dots on each side.

Virtual geoboard
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?
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

Which scripts?
There are six numbers written in five different scripts. Can you sort out which is which?


Arrangements

Tessellation interactivity

Nine-pin triangles
How many different triangles can you make on a circular pegboard that has nine pegs?

Square corners
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
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?

Transformations on a pegboard
How would you move the bands on the pegboard to alter these shapes?

1, 2, 3 magic square

A square of numbers
Can you put the numbers 1 to 8 into the circles so that the four calculations are correct?

Coded hundred square
This 100 square jigsaw is written in code. It starts with 1 and ends with 100. Can you build it up?

Fractional triangles
Use the lines on this figure to show how the square can be divided into 2 halves, 3 thirds, 6 sixths and 9 ninths.


Flip

Colour in the square

Geoboards

Factor lines
Arrange the four number cards on the grid, according to the rules, to make a diagonal, vertical or horizontal line.

Number lines in disguise
Some of the numbers have fallen off Becky's number line. Can you figure out what they were?

More transformations on a pegboard
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

Dotty circle

Triangles all around
Can you find all the different triangles on these peg boards, and find their angles?

Triangle pin-down

Difference

Quadrilaterals
How many DIFFERENT quadrilaterals can be made by joining the dots on the 8-point circle?

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

Coordinates of corners

Areas from vectors

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?
Engage in a little mathematical detective work to see if you can spot the fakes.

Picturing triangular numbers
What do you notice about the sum of two identical triangular numbers?

Isosceles triangles
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
How does the position of the line affect the equation of the line? What can you say about the equations of parallel lines?


Round and round and round
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?


Partitioning revisited

Triangles in circles
Can you find triangles on a 9-point circle? Can you work out their angles?

Dice/spinner interactives

Interactive spinners
This interactivity invites you to make conjectures and explore probabilities of outcomes related to two independent events.

Reflecting squarely
In how many ways can you fit all three pieces together to make shapes with line symmetry?

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

Cyclic quadrilaterals
Draw some quadrilaterals on a 9-point circle and work out the angles. Is there a theorem?


Is there a theorem?

Anti-magic square

Shear magic
Explore the area of families of parallelograms and triangles. Can you find rules to work out the areas?

Same length
Construct two equilateral triangles on a straight line. There are two lengths that look the same - can you prove it?

Square coordinates
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

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

More twisting and turning
It would be nice to have a strategy for disentangling any tangled ropes...

The farmers' field boundary
The farmers want to redraw their field boundary but keep the area the same. Can you advise them?



Bow tie


Speeding up, slowing down
Experiment with the interactivity of "rolling" regular polygons, and explore how the different positions of the dot affects its speed at each stage.


Rolling around

Magic potting sheds

More magic potting sheds

Nine colours
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
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.
