Use the interactivity to find all the different right-angled triangles you can make by just moving one corner of the starting triangle.
How many DIFFERENT quadrilaterals can be made by joining the dots on the 8-point circle?
This practical challenge invites you to investigate the different squares you can make on a square geoboard or pegboard.
Use the lines on this figure to show how the square can be divided into 2 halves, 3 thirds, 6 sixths and 9 ninths.
Cut four triangles from a square as shown in the picture. How many different shapes can you make by fitting the four triangles back together?
How many different triangles can you make on a circular pegboard that has nine pegs?
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?
Use the interactivity to investigate what kinds of triangles can be drawn on peg boards with different numbers of pegs.
Can you picture where this letter "F" will be on the grid if you flip it in these different ways?
Can you put the 25 coloured tiles into the 5 x 5 square so that no column, no row and no diagonal line have tiles of the same colour in them?
How would you move the bands on the pegboard to alter these shapes?
There are nine teddies in Teddy Town - three red, three blue and three yellow. There are also nine houses, three of each colour. Can you put them on the map of Teddy Town according to the rules?
Move the corner of the rectangle. Can you work out what the purple number represents?
Investigate how the four L-shapes fit together to make an enlarged L-shape. You could explore this idea with other shapes too.
Week 2
How well can you estimate angles? Playing this game could improve your skills.
Is it possible to place 2 counters on the 3 by 3 grid so that there is an even number of counters in every row and every column? How about if you have 3 counters or 4 counters or....?
What is the greatest number of squares you can make by overlapping three squares?
Can you put the numbers 1 to 8 into the circles so that the four calculations are correct?
Board Block Challenge game for an adult and child. Can you prevent your partner from being able to make a shape?
Jack has nine tiles. He put them together to make a square so that two tiles of the same colour were not beside each other. Can you find another way to do it?
Use the applet to make some squares. What patterns do you notice in the coordinates?
Use the applet to explore the area of a parallelogram and how it relates to vectors.
Can you find all the different triangles on these peg boards, and find their angles?
Two circles of equal radius touch at P. One circle is fixed whilst the other moves, rolling without slipping, all the way round. How many times does the moving coin revolve before returning to P?
Semi-regular tessellations combine two or more different regular polygons to fill the plane. Can you find all the semi-regular tessellations?
Arrange three 1s, three 2s and three 3s in this square so that every row, column and diagonal adds to the same total.
Join pentagons together edge to edge. Will they form a ring?
Place six toy ladybirds into the box so that there are two ladybirds in every column and every row.
Use these four dominoes to make a square that has the same number of dots on each side.
Can you use small coloured cubes to make a 3 by 3 by 3 cube so that each face of the bigger cube contains one of each colour?
Watch this film carefully. Can you find a general rule for explaining when the dot will be this same distance from the horizontal axis?
Draw a square. A second square of the same size slides around the first always maintaining contact and keeping the same orientation. How far does the dot travel?
Place the numbers 1 to 10 in the circles so that each number is the difference between the two numbers just below it.
Arrange the four number cards on the grid, according to the rules, to make a diagonal, vertical or horizontal line.
Choose the size of your pegboard and the shapes you can make. Can you work out the strategies needed to block your opponent?
What is the relationship between the angle at the centre and the angles at the circumference, for angles which stand on the same arc? Can you prove it?
Can you find triangles on a 9-point circle? Can you work out their angles?
Never used GeoGebra before? This article for complete beginners will help you to get started with this free dynamic geometry software.
A tilted square is a square with no horizontal sides. Can you devise a general instruction for the construction of a square when you are given just one of its sides?
Can you arrange the digits 1, 1, 2, 2, 3 and 3 to make a Number Sandwich?
An environment that enables you to investigate tessellations of regular polygons
In how many ways can you fit all three pieces together to make shapes with line symmetry?
Draw some isosceles triangles with an area of $9$cm$^2$ and a vertex at (20,20). If all the vertices must have whole number coordinates, how many is it possible to draw?
How does the position of the line affect the equation of the line? What can you say about the equations of parallel lines?
Investigate what happens to the equations of different lines when you reflect them in one of the axes. Try to predict what will happen. Explain your findings.
Investigate what happens to the equation of different lines when you translate them. Try to predict what will happen. Explain your findings.