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Dienes' Logiblocs
Age 5 to 7 Challenge Level:
This problem focuses on Dienes' Logiblocs. What is the same and what is different about these pairs of shapes? Can you describe the shapes in the picture?
Map Folding
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
Take a rectangle of paper and fold it in half, and half again, to make four smaller rectangles. How many different ways can you fold it up?
Tangram Tangle
Age 5 to 7 Challenge Level:
If you split the square into these two pieces, it is possible to fit the pieces together again to make a new shape. How many new shapes can you make?
Escher Tessellations
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
This practical investigation invites you to make tessellating shapes in a similar way to the artist Escher.
Halving
Age 5 to 7 Challenge Level:
These pictures show squares split into halves. Can you find other ways?
Cutting Corners
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
Can you make the most extraordinary, the most amazing, the most unusual patterns/designs from these triangles which are made in a special way?
Cereal Packets
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
How can you put five cereal packets together to make different shapes if you must put them face-to-face?
Putting Two and Two Together
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
In how many ways can you fit two of these yellow triangles together? Can you predict the number of ways two blue triangles can be fitted together?
Creating Cubes
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
Arrange 9 red cubes, 9 blue cubes and 9 yellow cubes into a large 3 by 3 cube. No row or column of cubes must contain two cubes of the same colour.
Sticks and Triangles
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
Using different numbers of sticks, how many different triangles are you able to make? Can you make any rules about the numbers of sticks that make the most triangles?
Two on Five
Age 5 to 11 Challenge Level:
Take 5 cubes of one colour and 2 of another colour. How many different ways can you join them if the 5 must touch the table and the 2 must not touch the table?
Baked Bean Cans
Age 5 to 7 Challenge Level:
Is there a best way to stack cans? What do different supermarkets do? How high can you safely stack the cans?
Cover the Tray
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
These practical challenges are all about making a 'tray' and covering it with paper.
Egyptian Rope
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
The ancient Egyptians were said to make right-angled triangles using a rope with twelve equal sections divided by knots. What other triangles could you make if you had a rope like this?
Two-digit Targets
Age 5 to 7 Challenge Level:
You have a set of the digits from 0 – 9. Can you arrange these in the five boxes to make two-digit numbers as close to the targets as possible?
Square Tangram
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
This was a problem for our birthday website. Can you use four of these pieces to form a square? How about making a square with all five pieces?
A City of Towers
Age 5 to 7 Challenge Level:
In this town, houses are built with one room for each person. There are some families of seven people living in the town. In how many different ways can they build their houses?
Fencing
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
Arrange your fences to make the largest rectangular space you can. Try with four fences, then five, then six etc.
Repeating Patterns
Age 5 to 7 Challenge Level:
Try continuing these patterns made from triangles. Can you create your own repeating pattern?
Two by One
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
An activity making various patterns with 2 x 1 rectangular tiles.
Tricky Triangles
Age 5 to 7 Challenge Level:
Use the three triangles to fill these outline shapes. Perhaps you can create some of your own shapes for a friend to fill?
Shaping Up
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
Are all the possible combinations of two shapes included in this set of 27 cards? How do you know?
It's a Fence!
Age 5 to 11 Challenge Level:
In this challenge, you will work in a group to investigate circular fences enclosing trees that are planted in square or triangular arrangements.
Advent Calendar 2006
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
NRICH December 2006 advent calendar - a new tangram for each day in the run-up to Christmas.
Four Colours
Age 5 to 11 Challenge Level:
Kate has eight multilink cubes. She has two red ones, two yellow, two green and two blue. She wants to fit them together to make a cube so that each colour shows on each face just once.
Advent Calendar 2008
Age 5 to 11 Challenge Level:
Our 2008 Advent Calendar has a 'Making Maths' activity for every day in the run-up to Christmas.
Building with Solid Shapes
Age 5 to 7 Challenge Level:
We have a box of cubes, triangular prisms, cones, cuboids, cylinders and tetrahedrons. Which of the buildings would fall down if we tried to make them?
Triangle Shapes
Age 5 to 11 Challenge Level:
This practical problem challenges you to create shapes and patterns with two different types of triangle. You could even try overlapping them.
Three Sets of Cubes, Two Surfaces
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
How many models can you find which obey these rules?
Making Cuboids
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
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?
Fit These Shapes
Age 5 to 11 Challenge Level:
What is the largest number of circles we can fit into the frame without them overlapping? How do you know? What will happen if you try the other shapes?
Seven Sticks
Age 5 to 7 Challenge Level:
Explore the triangles that can be made with seven sticks of the same length.
Double Your Popcorn, Double Your Pleasure
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
We went to the cinema and decided to buy some bags of popcorn so we asked about the prices. Investigate how much popcorn each bag holds so find out which we might have bought.
Little Boxes
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
How many different cuboids can you make when you use four CDs or DVDs? How about using five, then six?
How Tall?
Age 5 to 11 Challenge Level:
A group of children are discussing the height of a tall tree. How would you go about finding out its height?
Cuboid-in-a-box
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
What is the smallest cuboid that you can put in this box so that you cannot fit another that's the same into it?
Seven Flipped
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
Investigate the smallest number of moves it takes to turn these mats upside-down if you can only turn exactly three at a time.
World of Tan 4 - Monday Morning
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
Can you fit the tangram pieces into the outline of Wai Ping, Wah Ming and Chi Wing?
Let Us Reflect
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
Where can you put the mirror across the square so that you can still "see" the whole square? How many different positions are possible?
World of Tan 27 - Sharing
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
Can you fit the tangram pieces into the outline of Little Fung at the table?
Hoops/rope
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
Ideas for practical ways of representing data such as Venn and Carroll diagrams.
Making Tangrams
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
Here's a simple way to make a Tangram without any measuring or ruling lines.
Star Find
Age 5 to 7 Challenge Level:
Can you see which tile is the odd one out in this design? Using the basic tile, can you make a repeating pattern to decorate our wall?
A Patchwork Piece
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
Follow the diagrams to make this patchwork piece, based on an octagon in a square.
Two Squared
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
What happens to the area of a square if you double the length of the sides? Try the same thing with rectangles, diamonds and other shapes. How do the four smaller ones fit into the larger one?
Making Maths: Stars
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
Have a go at drawing these stars which use six points drawn around a circle. Perhaps you can create your own designs?
Making Longer, Making Shorter
Age 5 to 7 Challenge Level:
Ahmed is making rods using different numbers of cubes. Which rod is twice the length of his first rod?
Jomista Mat
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
Looking at the picture of this Jomista Mat, can you decribe what you see? Why not try and make one yourself?
NRICH is part of the family of activities in the Millennium Mathematics Project.