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Broad Topics > Using, Applying and Reasoning about Mathematics > Practical Activity
Map Folding
Stage: 2 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?
Four Colours
Stage: 1 and 2 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
Stage: 2 Challenge Level:
Can you make dice stairs using the rules stated? How do you know you have all the possible stairs?
Seven Flipped
Stage: 2 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.
Square Corners
Stage: 2 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
Stage: 1 and 2 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?
Sticks and Triangles
Stage: 2 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?
Creating Cubes
Stage: 2 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.
Brush Loads
Stage: 2 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.
Cuboid-in-a-box
Stage: 2 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?
Cutting Corners
Stage: 2 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?
Shaping Up
Stage: 2 Challenge Level:
Are all the possible combinations of two shapes included in this set of 27 cards? How do you know?
Three Sets of Cubes, Two Surfaces
Stage: 2 Challenge Level:
How many models can you find which obey these rules?
Order the Changes
Stage: 2 Challenge Level:
Can you order pictures of the development of a frog from frogspawn and of a bean seed growing into a plant?
Cover the Tray
Stage: 2 Challenge Level:
These practical challenges are all about making a 'tray' and covering it with paper.
Egyptian Rope
Stage: 2 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?
Putting Two and Two Together
Stage: 2 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?
Two by One
Stage: 2 Challenge Level:
An activity making various patterns with 2 x 1 rectangular tiles.
Cereal Packets
Stage: 2 Challenge Level:
How can you put five cereal packets together to make different shapes if you must put them face-to-face?
Escher Tessellations
Stage: 2 Challenge Level:
This practical investigation invites you to make tessellating shapes in a similar way to the artist Escher.
Making Cuboids
Stage: 2 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?
Advent Calendar 2008
Stage: 1 and 2 Challenge Level:
Our 2008 Advent Calendar has a 'Making Maths' activity for every day in the run-up to Christmas.
Two Squared
Stage: 2 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?
Little Boxes
Stage: 2 Challenge Level:
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
Stage: 2 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.
Sort Them Out (2)
Stage: 2 Challenge Level:
Can you each work out the number on your card? What do you notice? How could you sort the cards?
It's a Fence!
Stage: 1 and 2 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.
How Tall?
Stage: 1 and 2 Challenge Level:
A group of children are discussing the height of a tall tree. How would you go about finding out its height?
Sports Equipment
Stage: 2 Challenge Level:
If these balls are put on a line with each ball touching the one in front and the one behind, which arrangement makes the shortest line of balls?
Fit These Shapes
Stage: 1 and 2 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?
Making Maths: Double-sided Magic Square
Stage: 2 and 3 Challenge Level:
Make your own double-sided magic square. But can you complete both sides once you've made the pieces?
Advent Calendar 2006
Stage: 2 Challenge Level:
NRICH December 2006 advent calendar - a new tangram for each day in the run-up to Christmas.
Square Tangram
Stage: 2 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?
Polydron
Stage: 2 Challenge Level:
This activity investigates how you might make squares and pentominoes from Polydron.
World of Tan 4 - Monday Morning
Stage: 2 Challenge Level:
Can you fit the tangram pieces into the outline of Wai Ping, Wah Ming and Chi Wing?
Counting Counters
Stage: 2 Challenge Level:
Take a counter and surround it by a ring of other counters that MUST touch two others. How many are needed?
Making Maths: Indian Window Screen
Stage: 2 Challenge Level:
Can you recreate this Indian screen pattern? Can you make up similar patterns of your own?
Triangle Shapes
Stage: 1 and 2 Challenge Level:
This practical problem challenges you to create shapes and patterns with two different types of triangle. You could even try overlapping them.
A Patchwork Piece
Stage: 2 Challenge Level:
Follow the diagrams to make this patchwork piece, based on an octagon in a square.
World of Tan 1 - Granma T
Stage: 2 Challenge Level:
Can you fit the tangram pieces into the outline of Granma T?
Making Tangrams
Stage: 2 Challenge Level:
Here's a simple way to make a Tangram without any measuring or ruling lines.
Making Maths: Birds from an Egg
Stage: 2 Challenge Level:
Can you make the birds from the egg tangram?
It's a Tie
Stage: 2 Challenge Level:
Kaia is sure that her father has worn a particular tie twice a week in at least five of the last ten weeks, but her father disagrees. Who do you think is right?
World of Tan 25 - Pentominoes
Stage: 2 Challenge Level:
Can you fit the tangram pieces into the outlines of these people?
World of Tan 24 - Clocks
Stage: 2 Challenge Level:
Can you fit the tangram pieces into the outlines of these clocks?
World of Tan 22 - an Appealing Stroll
Stage: 2 Challenge Level:
Can you fit the tangram pieces into the outline of the child walking home from school?
World of Tan 26 - Old Chestnut
Stage: 2 Challenge Level:
Can you fit the tangram pieces into the outline of this brazier for roasting chestnuts?
NRICH is part of the family of activities in the Millennium Mathematics Project.