Interactive activities

  • Triangles in circles
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    Triangles in Circles

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

  • Odds and Evens
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    Odds and Evens

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    11 to 14
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    Are these games fair? How can you tell?

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    In the Bag

    Age
    11 to 14
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    Can you guess the colours of the 10 marbles in the bag? Can you develop an effective strategy for reaching 1000 points in the least number of rounds?

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    Reaction Timer

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    11 to 14
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    This problem offers you two ways to test reactions - use them to investigate your ideas about speeds of reaction.

  • Shifting Times Tables
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    Shifting Times Tables

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    11 to 14
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    Can you find a way to identify times tables after they have been shifted up or down?

  • Mixing Lemonade
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    Mixing Lemonade

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    11 to 14
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    Can you work out which drink has the stronger flavour?

  • Your number was...
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    Your Number Was...

    Age
    11 to 14
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    Think of a number and follow my instructions. Tell me your answer, and I'll tell you what you started with! Can you explain how I know?

  • More Number Pyramids
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    More Number Pyramids

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    11 to 14
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    When number pyramids have a sequence on the bottom layer, some interesting patterns emerge...

  • Square coordinates
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    Square Coordinates

    Age
    11 to 14
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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?

  • Stars
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    Stars

    Age
    11 to 14
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    Can you work out what step size to take to ensure you visit all the dots on the circle?

  • Subtended angles
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    Subtended Angles

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

  • Hourglass with blue sand.
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    Estimating Time

    Age
    11 to 14
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    How well can you estimate 10 seconds? Investigate with our timing tool.

  • Square It
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    Square It

    Age
    11 to 16
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    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.

  • Arithmagons
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    Arithmagons

    Age
    11 to 16
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    Can you find the values at the vertices when you know the values on the edges?

  • Semi-regular Tessellations
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    Semi-Regular Tessellations

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

  • Parallelogram It
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    Parallelogram It

    Age
    11 to 16
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    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 parallelogram.

  • Robotic Rotations
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    Robotic Rotations

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

  • Rhombus It
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    Rhombus It

    Age
    11 to 16
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    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 rhombus.

  • Nine Colours
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    Nine Colours

    Age
    11 to 16
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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?

  • Beelines
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    Beelines

    Age
    14 to 16
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    Is there a relationship between the coordinates of the endpoints of a line and the number of grid squares it crosses?

  • Finding factors
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    Finding Factors

    Age
    14 to 16
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    Can you find the hidden factors which multiply together to produce each quadratic expression?

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    At Right Angles

    Age
    14 to 16
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    Can you decide whether two lines are perpendicular or not? Can you do this without drawing them?

  • Multiplication arithmagons
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    Multiplication Arithmagons

    Age
    14 to 16
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    Can you find the values at the vertices when you know the values on the edges of these multiplication arithmagons?

  • Which spinners?
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    Which Spinners?

    Age
    14 to 18
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    Can you work out which spinners were used to generate the frequency charts?