These activities all make use of geoboards or pegboards. They supplement the tasks in our Geoboards feature.
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Making Squares
Investigate all the different squares you can make on this 5 by 5 grid by making your starting side go from the bottom left hand point. Can you find out the areas of all these squares?
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Peg Rotation
Can you work out what kind of rotation produced this pattern of
pegs in our pegboard?
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Quadrilaterals
How many DIFFERENT quadrilaterals can be made by joining the dots on the 8-point circle?
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Triangles all Around
Can you find all the different triangles on these peg boards, and find their angles?
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Triangle Pin-Down
Use the interactivity to investigate what kinds of triangles can be
drawn on peg boards with different numbers of pegs.
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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.