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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.
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.
Dice Stairs
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
Can you make dice stairs using the rules stated? How do you know you have all the possible stairs?
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?
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?
Brush Loads
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
How can you arrange the 5 cubes so that you need the smallest number of Brush Loads of paint to cover them? Try with other numbers of cubes as well.
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.
Three Sets of Cubes, Two Surfaces
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
How many models can you find which obey these rules?
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?
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.
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?
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 Corners
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
What is the greatest number of counters you can place on the grid below without four of them lying at the corners of a square?
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.
Order the Changes
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
Can you order pictures of the development of a frog from frogspawn and of a bean seed growing into a plant?
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?
Halving
Age 5 to 7 Challenge Level:
These pictures show squares split into halves. Can you find other ways?
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?
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.
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?
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?
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?
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?
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?
Cover the Tray
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
These practical challenges are all about making a 'tray' and covering it with paper.
Two by One
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
An activity making various patterns with 2 x 1 rectangular tiles.
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?
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?
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?
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?
World of Tan 9 - Animals
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
Can you fit the tangram pieces into the outline of this goat and giraffe?
World of Tan 12 - All in a Fluff
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
Can you fit the tangram pieces into the outline of these rabbits?
World of Tan 11 - the Past, Present and Future
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
Can you fit the tangram pieces into the outline of the telescope and microscope?
World of Tan 7 - Gat Marn
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
Can you fit the tangram pieces into the outline of this plaque design?
Making Maths: Rolypoly
Age 5 to 11 Challenge Level:
Paint a stripe on a cardboard roll. Can you predict what will happen when it is rolled across a sheet of paper?
Making Maths: Birds from an Egg
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
Can you make the birds from the egg tangram?
Rearrange the Square
Age 5 to 7 Challenge Level:
We can cut a small triangle off the corner of a square and then fit the two pieces together. Can you work out how these shapes are made from the two pieces?
World of Tan 30 - Logical Thinking
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
Can you logically construct these silhouettes using the tangram pieces?
Paper Patchwork 2
Age 5 to 7 Challenge Level:
Have a go at making a few of these shapes from paper in different sizes. What patterns can you create?
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?
World of Tan 18 - Soup
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
Can you fit the tangram pieces into the outlines of Mai Ling and Chi Wing?
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?
Happy Halving
Age 5 to 7 Challenge Level:
Can you split each of the shapes below in half so that the two parts are exactly the same?
World of Tan 26 - Old Chestnut
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
Can you fit the tangram pieces into the outline of this brazier for roasting chestnuts?
World of Tan 28 - Concentrating on Coordinates
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
Can you fit the tangram pieces into the outline of Little Ming playing the board game?
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.
Paper Patchwork 1
Age 5 to 7 Challenge Level:
Can you work out what shape is made when this piece of paper is folded up using the crease pattern shown?
World of Tan 29 - the Telephone
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
Can you fit the tangram pieces into the outline of this telephone?
NRICH is part of the family of activities in the Millennium Mathematics Project.