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Generalising. Plane shapes and their properties. Regular polygons and circles. Circle properties and circle theorems. Mathematical reasoning & proof. Limits. Pythagoras' theorem. Area - triangles, quadrilaterals, compound shapes. Manipulating algebraic expressions/formulae. Making and proving conjectures.There are 9 results
Broad Topics > Transformations and constructions > Scale factors
Matter of Scale
Age 14 to 16 Challenge Level:
Prove Pythagoras' Theorem using enlargements and scale factors.
Growing Rectangles
Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:
What happens to the area and volume of 2D and 3D shapes when you enlarge them?
Who Is the Fairest of Them All ?
Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:
Explore the effect of combining enlargements.
Fit for Photocopying
Age 14 to 16 Challenge Level:
Explore the relationships between different paper sizes.
Fill Me up Too
Age 14 to 16 Challenge Level:
In Fill Me Up we invited you to sketch graphs as vessels are filled with water. Can you work out the equations of the graphs?
Where Am I?
Age 11 to 16 Challenge Level:
From the information you are asked to work out where the picture was taken. Is there too much information? How accurate can your answer be?
Conical Bottle
Age 14 to 16 Challenge Level:
A right circular cone is filled with liquid to a depth of half its vertical height. The cone is inverted. How high up the vertical height of the cone will the liquid rise?
The Rescaled Map
Age 14 to 16 Challenge Level:
We use statistics to give ourselves an informed view on a subject of interest. This problem explores how to scale countries on a map to represent characteristics other than land area.
NRICH is part of the family of activities in the Millennium Mathematics Project.