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Geometry Stage 6

A Cartesian Puzzle
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A Cartesian puzzle

Age
7 to 11
Challenge level
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Find the missing coordinates which will form these eight quadrilaterals. These coordinates themselves will then form a shape with rotational and line symmetry.

How Safe Are You?
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How safe are you?

Age
7 to 11
Challenge level
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How much do you have to turn these dials by in order to unlock the safes?

Three Triangles
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Three triangles

Age
7 to 11
Challenge level
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What do you notice when you put three triangles together?
Estimating angles
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Estimating angles

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

Times
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Times

Age
7 to 11
Challenge level
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Which times on a digital clock have a line of symmetry? Which look the same upside-down? You might like to try this investigation and find out!
Where are they?
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Where are they?

Age
7 to 11
Challenge level
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Use the isometric grid paper to find the different polygons.

Sponge Sections
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Sponge sections

Age
7 to 11
Challenge level
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You have been given three shapes made out of sponge: a sphere, a cylinder and a cone. Your challenge is to find out how to cut them to make different shapes for printing.

Stringy Quads
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Stringy quads

Age
7 to 11
Challenge level
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This practical problem challenges you to make quadrilaterals with a loop of string. You'll need some friends to help!

Making Cuboids
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Making cuboids

Age
7 to 11
Challenge level
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Let's say you can only use two different lengths - 2 units and 4 units. Using just these 2 lengths as the edges how many different cuboids can you make?

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?