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Broad Topics > Using, Applying and Reasoning about Mathematics > Practical Activity
Little Boxes
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How many different cuboids can you make when you use four CDs or DVDs? How about using five, then six?
Double Your Popcorn, Double Your Pleasure
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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.
Cutting Corners
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Can you make the most extraordinary, the most amazing, the most unusual patterns/designs from these triangles which are made in a special way?
Map Folding
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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?
Escher Tessellations
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This practical investigation invites you to make tessellating shapes in a similar way to the artist Escher.
Two Squared
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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?
Sticks and Triangles
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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
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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?
Cuboid-in-a-box
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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
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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?
Square Corners
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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?
Making Maths: Happy Families
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Here is a version of the game 'Happy Families' for you to make and play.
Advent Calendar 2006
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NRICH December 2006 advent calendar - a new tangram for each day in the run-up to Christmas.
It's a Fence!
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In this challenge, you will work in a group to investigate circular fences enclosing trees that are planted in square or triangular arrangements.
Fit These Shapes
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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?
Cover the Tray
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These practical challenges are all about making a 'tray' and covering it with paper.
Advent Calendar 2008
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Our 2008 Advent Calendar has a 'Making Maths' activity for every day in the run-up to Christmas.
Putting Two and Two Together
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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?
Making Maths: Birds from an Egg
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Can you make the birds from the egg tangram?
Two by One
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An activity making various patterns with 2 x 1 rectangular tiles.
Cereal Packets
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How can you put five cereal packets together to make different shapes if you must put them face-to-face?
Brush Loads
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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.
Making Cuboids
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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 26 - Old Chestnut
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Can you fit the tangram pieces into the outline of this brazier for roasting chestnuts?
World of Tan 25 - Pentominoes
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Can you fit the tangram pieces into the outlines of these people?
World of Tan 24 - Clocks
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Can you fit the tangram pieces into the outlines of these clocks?
World of Tan 22 - an Appealing Stroll
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Can you fit the tangram pieces into the outline of the child walking home from school?
World of Tan 27 - Sharing
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Can you fit the tangram pieces into the outline of Little Fung at the table?
World of Tan 28 - Concentrating on Coordinates
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Can you fit the tangram pieces into the outline of Little Ming playing the board game?
Counter Ideas
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Here are some ideas to try in the classroom for using counters to investigate number patterns.
Making Maths: Stars
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Have a go at drawing these stars which use six points drawn around a circle. Perhaps you can create your own designs?
World of Tan 29 - the Telephone
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Can you fit the tangram pieces into the outline of this telephone?
World of Tan 21 - Almost There Now
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Can you fit the tangram pieces into the outlines of the lobster, yacht and cyclist?
World of Tan 20 - Fractions
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Can you fit the tangram pieces into the outlines of the chairs?
World of Tan 11 - the Past, Present and Future
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Can you fit the tangram pieces into the outline of the telescope and microscope?
World of Tan 9 - Animals
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Can you fit the tangram pieces into the outline of this goat and giraffe?
World of Tan 7 - Gat Marn
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Can you fit the tangram pieces into the outline of this plaque design?
World of Tan 12 - All in a Fluff
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Can you fit the tangram pieces into the outline of these rabbits?
World of Tan 14 - Celebrations
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Can you fit the tangram pieces into the outline of Little Ming and Little Fung dancing?
World of Tan 19 - Working Men
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Can you fit the tangram pieces into the outline of this shape. How would you describe it?
World of Tan 16 - Time Flies
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Can you fit the tangram pieces into the outlines of the candle and sundial?
World of Tan 15 - Millennia
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Can you fit the tangram pieces into the outlines of the workmen?
The Numbers Give the Design
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Make new patterns from simple turning instructions. You can have a go using pencil and paper or with a floor robot.
World of Tan 6 - Junk
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Can you fit the tangram pieces into the outline of this junk?
Seven Flipped
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Investigate the smallest number of moves it takes to turn these mats upside-down if you can only turn exactly three at a time.
Making Tangrams
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Here's a simple way to make a Tangram without any measuring or ruling lines.
World of Tan 1 - Granma T
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Can you fit the tangram pieces into the outline of Granma T?
Pyramid Numbers
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What are the next three numbers in this sequence? Can you explain why are they called pyramid numbers?
Cut and Make
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Cut a square of paper into three pieces as shown. Now,can you use the 3 pieces to make a large triangle, a parallelogram and the square again?
NRICH is part of the family of activities in the Millennium Mathematics Project.