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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?
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.
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?
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?
Three Sets of Cubes, Two Surfaces
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
How many models can you find which obey these rules?
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.
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?
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?
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?
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?
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.
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?
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.
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?
Two by One
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
An activity making various patterns with 2 x 1 rectangular tiles.
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?
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?
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?
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?
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?
Making Maths: Double-sided Magic Square
Age 7 to 14 Challenge Level:
Make your own double-sided magic square. But can you complete both sides once you've made the pieces?
Sort Them Out (2)
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
Can you each work out the number on your card? What do you notice? How could you sort the cards?
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.
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 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.
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?
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.
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?
Factors and Multiples Game for Two
Age 7 to 14 Challenge Level:
Factors and Multiples game for an adult and child. How can you make sure you win this game?
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.
Polydron
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
This activity investigates how you might make squares and pentominoes from Polydron.
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.
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 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 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?
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 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 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 18 - Soup
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
Can you fit the tangram pieces into the outlines of Mai Ling and Chi Wing?
Triangle Relations
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
What do these two triangles have in common? How are they related?
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?
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?
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?
NRICH is part of the family of activities in the Millennium Mathematics Project.