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More Activities Using Pegboards

These activities all make use of geoboards or pegboards.  They supplement the tasks in our Geoboards feature.
Tri.'s
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Tri.'s

Age
7 to 11
Challenge level
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How many triangles can you make on the 3 by 3 pegboard?
Making Squares
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Making Squares

Age
7 to 11
Challenge level
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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?
Peg Rotation
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Peg Rotation

Age
7 to 11
Challenge level
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Can you work out what kind of rotation produced this pattern of pegs in our pegboard?
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?
Triangles all Around
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Triangles all Around

Age
7 to 11
Challenge level
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Can you find all the different triangles on these peg boards, and find their angles?
Triangle Pin-Down
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Triangle Pin-Down

Age
7 to 11
Challenge level
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Use the interactivity to investigate what kinds of triangles can be drawn on peg boards with different numbers of pegs.
More Transformations on a Pegboard
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More Transformations on a Pegboard

Age
7 to 11
Challenge level
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Use the interactivity to find all the different right-angled triangles you can make by just moving one corner of the starting triangle.