# Resources tagged with: Visualising

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Broad Topics > Thinking Mathematically > Visualising

### Polygon Rings

##### Age 11 to 14Challenge Level

Join pentagons together edge to edge. Will they form a ring?

### Semi-regular Tessellations

##### Age 11 to 16Challenge Level

Semi-regular tessellations combine two or more different regular polygons to fill the plane. Can you find all the semi-regular tessellations?

### Polygon Pictures

##### Age 11 to 14Challenge Level

Can you work out how these polygon pictures were drawn, and use that to figure out their angles?

### Tessellating Hexagons

##### Age 11 to 14Challenge Level

Which hexagons tessellate?

### Getting an Angle

##### Age 11 to 14Challenge Level

How can you make an angle of 60 degrees by folding a sheet of paper twice?

### Trice

##### Age 11 to 14Challenge Level

ABCDEFGH is a 3 by 3 by 3 cube. Point P is 1/3 along AB (that is AP : PB = 1 : 2), point Q is 1/3 along GH and point R is 1/3 along ED. What is the area of the triangle PQR?

### Star Gazing

##### Age 14 to 16Challenge Level

Find the ratio of the outer shaded area to the inner area for a six pointed star and an eight pointed star.

### Like a Circle in a Spiral

##### Age 7 to 16Challenge Level

A cheap and simple toy with lots of mathematics. Can you interpret the images that are produced? Can you predict the pattern that will be produced using different wheels?

### Tied Up

##### Age 14 to 16 ShortChallenge Level

How much of the field can the animals graze?

### LOGO Challenge - Circles as Animals

##### Age 11 to 16Challenge Level

See if you can anticipate successive 'generations' of the two animals shown here.

### Rolling Around

##### Age 11 to 14Challenge Level

A circle rolls around the outside edge of a square so that its circumference always touches the edge of the square. Can you describe the locus of the centre of the circle?

### The Old Goats

##### Age 11 to 14Challenge Level

A rectangular field has two posts with a ring on top of each post. There are two quarrelsome goats and plenty of ropes which you can tie to their collars. How can you secure them so they can't. . . .

### Sea Defences

##### Age 7 to 14Challenge Level

These are pictures of the sea defences at New Brighton. Can you work out what a basic shape might be in both images of the sea wall and work out a way they might fit together?

### Triangular Tantaliser

##### Age 11 to 14Challenge Level

Draw all the possible distinct triangles on a 4 x 4 dotty grid. Convince me that you have all possible triangles.

### Rolling Triangle

##### Age 11 to 14Challenge Level

The triangle ABC is equilateral. The arc AB has centre C, the arc BC has centre A and the arc CA has centre B. Explain how and why this shape can roll along between two parallel tracks.

### LOGO Challenge - Triangles-squares-stars

##### Age 11 to 16Challenge Level

Can you recreate these designs? What are the basic units? What movement is required between each unit? Some elegant use of procedures will help - variables not essential.

### Isosceles Triangles

##### Age 11 to 14Challenge Level

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?

### An Unusual Shape

##### Age 11 to 14Challenge Level

Can you maximise the area available to a grazing goat?

### Efficient Cutting

##### Age 11 to 14Challenge Level

Use a single sheet of A4 paper and make a cylinder having the greatest possible volume. The cylinder must be closed off by a circle at each end.

### Weighty Problem

##### Age 11 to 14Challenge Level

The diagram shows a very heavy kitchen cabinet. It cannot be lifted but it can be pivoted around a corner. The task is to move it, without sliding, in a series of turns about the corners so that it. . . .

### On Time

##### Age 11 to 14Challenge Level

On a clock the three hands - the second, minute and hour hands - are on the same axis. How often in a 24 hour day will the second hand be parallel to either of the two other hands?

##### Age 11 to 14Challenge Level

Four rods, two of length a and two of length b, are linked to form a kite. The linkage is moveable so that the angles change. What is the maximum area of the kite?

### Efficient Packing

##### Age 14 to 16Challenge Level

How efficiently can you pack together disks?

### Convex Polygons

##### Age 11 to 14Challenge Level

Show that among the interior angles of a convex polygon there cannot be more than three acute angles.

### Nine Colours

##### Age 11 to 16Challenge Level

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?

### Tilting Triangles

##### Age 14 to 16Challenge Level

A right-angled isosceles triangle is rotated about the centre point of a square. What can you say about the area of the part of the square covered by the triangle as it rotates?

### Constructing Triangles

##### Age 11 to 14Challenge Level

Generate three random numbers to determine the side lengths of a triangle. What triangles can you draw?

### Playground Snapshot

##### Age 7 to 14Challenge Level

The image in this problem is part of a piece of equipment found in the playground of a school. How would you describe it to someone over the phone?

### Dotty Triangles

##### Age 11 to 14Challenge Level

Imagine an infinitely large sheet of square dotty paper on which you can draw triangles of any size you wish (providing each vertex is on a dot). What areas is it/is it not possible to draw?

### Vanishing Point

##### Age 14 to 18Challenge Level

How can visual patterns be used to prove sums of series?

### Cube Paths

##### Age 11 to 14Challenge Level

Given a 2 by 2 by 2 skeletal cube with one route `down' the cube. How many routes are there from A to B?

### Konigsberg Plus

##### Age 11 to 14Challenge Level

Euler discussed whether or not it was possible to stroll around Koenigsberg crossing each of its seven bridges exactly once. Experiment with different numbers of islands and bridges.

### Jam

##### Age 14 to 16Challenge Level

A game for 2 players

### Wari

##### Age 14 to 16Challenge Level

This is a simple version of an ancient game played all over the world. It is also called Mancala. What tactics will increase your chances of winning?

### On the Edge

##### Age 11 to 14Challenge Level

If you move the tiles around, can you make squares with different coloured edges?

### All Tied Up

##### Age 14 to 16Challenge Level

A ribbon runs around a box so that it makes a complete loop with two parallel pieces of ribbon on the top. How long will the ribbon be?

### Rati-o

##### Age 11 to 14Challenge Level

Points P, Q, R and S each divide the sides AB, BC, CD and DA respectively in the ratio of 2 : 1. Join the points. What is the area of the parallelogram PQRS in relation to the original rectangle?

### Tetrahedra Tester

##### Age 11 to 14Challenge Level

An irregular tetrahedron is composed of four different triangles. Can such a tetrahedron be constructed where the side lengths are 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9 units of length?

### Picturing Triangular Numbers

##### Age 11 to 14Challenge Level

Triangular numbers can be represented by a triangular array of squares. What do you notice about the sum of identical triangle numbers?

### Alquerque

##### Age 5 to 18

This game for two, was played in ancient Egypt as far back as 1400 BC. The game was taken by the Moors to Spain, where it is mentioned in 13th century manuscripts, and the Spanish name Alquerque. . . .

### Framed

##### Age 11 to 14Challenge Level

Seven small rectangular pictures have one inch wide frames. The frames are removed and the pictures are fitted together like a jigsaw to make a rectangle of length 12 inches. Find the dimensions of. . . .

### Tetra Square

##### Age 11 to 14Challenge Level

ABCD is a regular tetrahedron and the points P, Q, R and S are the midpoints of the edges AB, BD, CD and CA. Prove that PQRS is a square.

### Corridors

##### Age 14 to 16Challenge Level

A 10x10x10 cube is made from 27 2x2 cubes with corridors between them. Find the shortest route from one corner to the opposite corner.

##### Age 11 to 14Challenge Level

How many different symmetrical shapes can you make by shading triangles or squares?

### Hidden Rectangles

##### Age 11 to 14Challenge Level

Rectangles are considered different if they vary in size or have different locations. How many different rectangles can be drawn on a chessboard?

### Inside Out

##### Age 14 to 16Challenge Level

There are 27 small cubes in a 3 x 3 x 3 cube, 54 faces being visible at any one time. Is it possible to reorganise these cubes so that by dipping the large cube into a pot of paint three times you. . . .

### Bands and Bridges: Bringing Topology Back

##### Age 7 to 14

Lyndon Baker describes how the Mobius strip and Euler's law can introduce pupils to the idea of topology.

### Changing Places

##### Age 14 to 16Challenge Level

Place a red counter in the top left corner of a 4x4 array, which is covered by 14 other smaller counters, leaving a gap in the bottom right hand corner (HOME). What is the smallest number of moves. . . .

### The Development of Spatial and Geometric Thinking: 5 to 18

##### Age 5 to 16

This is the first article in a series which aim to provide some insight into the way spatial thinking develops in children, and draw on a range of reported research. The focus of this article is the. . . .

### The Farmers' Field Boundary

##### Age 11 to 14Challenge Level

The farmers want to redraw their field boundary but keep the area the same. Can you advise them?