# Resources tagged with: Visualising

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Broad Topics > Thinking Mathematically > Visualising

### Sliding Puzzle

##### Age 11 to 16Challenge Level

The aim of the game is to slide the green square from the top right hand corner to the bottom left hand corner in the least number of moves.

### Jam

##### Age 14 to 16Challenge Level

To avoid losing think of another very well known game where the patterns of play are similar.

### Cogs

##### Age 11 to 14Challenge Level

A and B are two interlocking cogwheels having p teeth and q teeth respectively. One tooth on B is painted red. Find the values of p and q for which the red tooth on B contacts every gap on the. . . .

### Squares in Rectangles

##### Age 11 to 14Challenge Level

A 2 by 3 rectangle contains 8 squares and a 3 by 4 rectangle contains 20 squares. What size rectangle(s) contain(s) exactly 100 squares? Can you find them all?

### The Triangle Game

##### Age 11 to 16Challenge Level

Can you discover whether this is a fair game?

### Jam

##### Age 14 to 16Challenge Level

A game for 2 players

### Hypotenuse Lattice Points

##### Age 14 to 16Challenge Level

The triangle OMN has vertices on the axes with whole number co-ordinates. How many points with whole number coordinates are there on the hypotenuse MN?

### Yih or Luk Tsut K'i or Three Men's Morris

##### Age 11 to 18Challenge Level

Some puzzles requiring no knowledge of knot theory, just a careful inspection of the patterns. A glimpse of the classification of knots and a little about prime knots, crossing numbers and. . . .

### Building Tetrahedra

##### Age 14 to 16Challenge Level

Can you make a tetrahedron whose faces all have the same perimeter?

### Triangles Within Triangles

##### Age 14 to 16Challenge Level

Can you find a rule which connects consecutive triangular numbers?

### Triangles Within Squares

##### Age 14 to 16Challenge Level

Can you find a rule which relates triangular numbers to square numbers?

### Cuboids

##### Age 11 to 14Challenge Level

Can you find a cuboid that has a surface area of exactly 100 square units. Is there more than one? Can you find them all?

### 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?

### Tourism

##### Age 11 to 14Challenge Level

If you can copy a network without lifting your pen off the paper and without drawing any line twice, then it is traversable. Decide which of these diagrams are traversable.

### Christmas Chocolates

##### Age 11 to 14Challenge Level

How could Penny, Tom and Matthew work out how many chocolates there are in different sized boxes?

### Partly Painted Cube

##### Age 14 to 16Challenge Level

Jo made a cube from some smaller cubes, painted some of the faces of the large cube, and then took it apart again. 45 small cubes had no paint on them at all. How many small cubes did Jo use?

### Sprouts

##### Age 11 to 16Challenge Level

A game for 2 people. Take turns joining two dots, until your opponent is unable to move.

### AMGM

##### Age 14 to 16Challenge Level

Can you use the diagram to prove the AM-GM inequality?

### Seven Squares - Group-worthy Task

##### Age 11 to 14Challenge Level

Choose a couple of the sequences. Try to picture how to make the next, and the next, and the next... Can you describe your reasoning?

### Steel Cables

##### Age 14 to 16Challenge Level

Some students have been working out the number of strands needed for different sizes of cable. Can you make sense of their solutions?

### Frogs

##### Age 11 to 14Challenge Level

How many moves does it take to swap over some red and blue frogs? Do you have a method?

### Building Gnomons

##### Age 14 to 16Challenge Level

Build gnomons that are related to the Fibonacci sequence and try to explain why this is possible.

### Tower of Hanoi

##### Age 11 to 14Challenge Level

The Tower of Hanoi is an ancient mathematical challenge. Working on the building blocks may help you to explain the patterns you notice.

### 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?

### 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?

### Square It

##### Age 11 to 16Challenge Level

Players take it in turns to choose a dot on the grid. The winner is the first to have four dots that can be joined to form a square.

### Dice, Routes and Pathways

##### Age 5 to 14

This article for teachers discusses examples of problems in which there is no obvious method but in which children can be encouraged to think deeply about the context and extend their ability to. . . .

### 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. . . .

### Triangles Within Pentagons

##### Age 14 to 16Challenge Level

Show that all pentagonal numbers are one third of a triangular number.

### A Tilted Square

##### Age 14 to 16Challenge Level

The opposite vertices of a square have coordinates (a,b) and (c,d). What are the coordinates of the other vertices?

### All in the Mind

##### Age 11 to 14Challenge Level

Imagine you are suspending a cube from one vertex and allowing it to hang freely. What shape does the surface of the water make around the cube?

### Square Coordinates

##### Age 11 to 14Challenge Level

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?

### 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?

### Cubes Within Cubes Revisited

##### Age 11 to 14Challenge Level

Imagine starting with one yellow cube and covering it all over with a single layer of red cubes, and then covering that cube with a layer of blue cubes. How many red and blue cubes would you need?

### How Many Dice?

##### Age 11 to 14Challenge Level

A standard die has the numbers 1, 2 and 3 are opposite 6, 5 and 4 respectively so that opposite faces add to 7? If you make standard dice by writing 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 on blank cubes you will find. . . .

### Paving Paths

##### Age 11 to 14Challenge Level

How many different ways can I lay 10 paving slabs, each 2 foot by 1 foot, to make a path 2 foot wide and 10 foot long from my back door into my garden, without cutting any of the paving slabs?

### Cubes Within Cubes

##### Age 7 to 14Challenge Level

We start with one yellow cube and build around it to make a 3x3x3 cube with red cubes. Then we build around that red cube with blue cubes and so on. How many cubes of each colour have we used?

### 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?

### 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.

### Shear Magic

##### Age 11 to 14Challenge Level

Explore the area of families of parallelograms and triangles. Can you find rules to work out the areas?

### Pattern Power

##### Age 5 to 14

Mathematics is the study of patterns. Studying pattern is an opportunity to observe, hypothesise, experiment, discover and create.

### 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?

### Buses

##### Age 11 to 14Challenge Level

A bus route has a total duration of 40 minutes. Every 10 minutes, two buses set out, one from each end. How many buses will one bus meet on its way from one end to the other end?

### Squares, Squares and More Squares

##### Age 11 to 14Challenge Level

Can you dissect a square into: 4, 7, 10, 13... other squares? 6, 9, 12, 15... other squares? 8, 11, 14... other squares?

### Flight of the Flibbins

##### Age 11 to 14Challenge Level

Blue Flibbins are so jealous of their red partners that they will not leave them on their own with any other bue Flibbin. What is the quickest way of getting the five pairs of Flibbins safely to. . . .

### KÃ¶nigsberg

##### Age 11 to 14Challenge Level

Can you cross each of the seven bridges that join the north and south of the river to the two islands, once and once only, without retracing your steps?

### John's Train Is on Time

##### Age 11 to 14Challenge Level

A train leaves on time. After it has gone 8 miles (at 33mph) the driver looks at his watch and sees that the hour hand is exactly over the minute hand. When did the train leave the station?

### Clocked

##### Age 11 to 14Challenge Level

Is it possible to rearrange the numbers 1,2......12 around a clock face in such a way that every two numbers in adjacent positions differ by any of 3, 4 or 5 hours?

### Coordinate Patterns

##### Age 11 to 14Challenge Level

Charlie and Alison have been drawing patterns on coordinate grids. Can you picture where the patterns lead?

### Khun Phaen Escapes to Freedom

##### Age 11 to 14Challenge Level

Slide the pieces to move Khun Phaen past all the guards into the position on the right from which he can escape to freedom.