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Broad Topics > Using, Applying and Reasoning about Mathematics > Practical Activity
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.
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.
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?
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?
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.
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?
Halving
Age 5 to 7 Challenge Level:
These pictures show squares split into halves. Can you find other ways?
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?
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?
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.
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?
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?
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?
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?
Two by One
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
An activity making various patterns with 2 x 1 rectangular tiles.
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?
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?
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?
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?
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?
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?
Cover the Tray
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
These practical challenges are all about making a 'tray' and covering it with paper.
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.
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?
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.
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?
Three Sets of Cubes, Two Surfaces
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
How many models can you find which obey these rules?
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 16 - Time Flies
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
Can you fit the tangram pieces into the outlines of the candle and sundial?
World of Tan 19 - Working Men
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
Can you fit the tangram pieces into the outline of this shape. How would you describe it?
World of Tan 21 - Almost There Now
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
Can you fit the tangram pieces into the outlines of the lobster, yacht and cyclist?
World of Tan 20 - Fractions
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
Can you fit the tangram pieces into the outlines of the chairs?
World of Tan 15 - Millennia
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
Can you fit the tangram pieces into the outlines of the workmen?
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?
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?
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?
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 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 22 - an Appealing Stroll
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
Can you fit the tangram pieces into the outline of the child walking home from school?
World of Tan 14 - Celebrations
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
Can you fit the tangram pieces into the outline of Little Ming and Little Fung dancing?
World of Tan 25 - Pentominoes
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
Can you fit the tangram pieces into the outlines of these people?
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?
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.
Reef and Granny
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
Have a look at what happens when you pull a reef knot and a granny knot tight. Which do you think is best for securing things together? Why?
NRICH is part of the family of activities in the Millennium Mathematics Project.