
Shaping it


How tall?
A group of children are discussing the height of a tall tree. How would you go about finding out its height?


Watermelons



Times

The big cheese
Investigate the area of 'slices' cut off this cube of cheese. What would happen if you had different-sized block of cheese to start with?

How many times?
On a digital 24 hour clock, at certain times, all the digits are consecutive. How many times like this are there between midnight and 7 a.m.?


Weighing fruit

The time is ...
Can you put these mixed-up times in order? You could arrange them in a circle.

Through the window
My local DIY shop calculates the price of its windows according to the area of glass and the length of frame used. Can you work out how they arrived at these prices?

Numerically equal
Can you draw a square in which the perimeter is numerically equal to the area?

Slow coach

Oh! Harry!
A group of children are using measuring cylinders but they lose the labels. Can you help relabel them?