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Broad Topics > Using, Applying and Reasoning about Mathematics > Practical Activity
World of Tan 17 - Weather
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
Can you fit the tangram pieces into the outlines of the watering can and man in a boat?
World of Tan 13 - A Storm in a Tea Cup
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
Can you fit the tangram pieces into the outline of these convex shapes?
World of Tan 10 - Butterflies
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
Can you use the interactive to complete the tangrams in the shape of butterflies?
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 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 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 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 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 8 - Sports Car
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
Can you fit the tangram pieces into the outline of this sports car?
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 7 - Gat Marn
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
Can you fit the tangram pieces into the outline of this plaque design?
World of Tan 2 - Little Ming
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
Can you fit the tangram pieces into the outline of Little Ming?
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?
World of Tan 3 - Mai Ling
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
Can you fit the tangram pieces into the outline of Mai Ling?
World of Tan 5 - Rocket
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
Can you fit the tangram pieces into the outline of the rocket?
Midpoint Triangle
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
Can you cut up a square in the way shown and make the pieces into a triangle?
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 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 24 - Clocks
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
Can you fit the tangram pieces into the outlines of these clocks?
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?
Fractional Triangles
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
Use the lines on this figure to show how the square can be divided into 2 halves, 3 thirds, 6 sixths and 9 ninths.
World of Tan 25 - Pentominoes
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
Can you fit the tangram pieces into the outlines of these people?
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?
Making Tangrams
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
Here's a simple way to make a Tangram without any measuring or ruling lines.
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?
World of Tan 1 - Granma T
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
Can you fit the tangram pieces into the outline of Granma T?
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 27 - Sharing
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
Can you fit the tangram pieces into the outline of Little Fung at the table?
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?
World of Tan 29 - the Telephone
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
Can you fit the tangram pieces into the outline of this telephone?
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.
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?
Folding, Cutting and Punching
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
Exploring and predicting folding, cutting and punching holes and making spirals.
Folding Flowers 1
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
Can you visualise what shape this piece of paper will make when it is folded?
Triangular Faces
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
This problem invites you to build 3D shapes using two different triangles. Can you make the shapes from the pictures?
Folding Flowers 2
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
Make a flower design using the same shape made out of different sizes of paper.
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.
Regular Rings 1
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
Can you work out what shape is made by folding in this way? Why not create some patterns using this shape but in different sizes?
Construct-o-straws
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
Make a cube out of straws and have a go at this practical challenge.
Three Squares
Age 5 to 11 Challenge Level:
What is the greatest number of squares you can make by overlapping three squares?
Move Those Halves
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
For this task, you'll need an A4 sheet and two A5 transparent sheets. Decide on a way of arranging the A5 sheets on top of the A4 sheet and explore ...
Pyramid Numbers
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
What are the next three numbers in this sequence? Can you explain why are they called pyramid numbers?
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?
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: Be a Mathemagician
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
Surprise your friends with this magic square trick.
Regular Rings 2
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
What shape is made when you fold using this crease pattern? Can you make a ring design?
Counting Counters
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
Take a counter and surround it by a ring of other counters that MUST touch two others. How many are needed?
Conway's Chequerboard Army
Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:
Here is a solitaire type environment for you to experiment with. Which targets can you reach?
NRICH is part of the family of activities in the Millennium Mathematics Project.