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Mach Attack
Age 16 to 18 Challenge Level:
Have you got the Mach knack? Discover the mathematics behind exceeding the sound barrier.
Stonehenge
Age 16 to 18 Challenge Level:
Explain why, when moving heavy objects on rollers, the object moves twice as fast as the rollers. Try a similar experiment yourself.
Packing 3D Shapes
Age 14 to 16 Challenge Level:
What 3D shapes occur in nature. How efficiently can you pack these shapes together?
Fitting Flat Shapes
Age 16 to 18 Challenge Level:
How efficiently can various flat shapes be fitted together?
Circuit Training
Age 14 to 16 Challenge Level:
Mike and Monisha meet at the race track, which is 400m round. Just to make a point, Mike runs anticlockwise whilst Monisha runs clockwise. Where will they meet on their way around and will they ever. . . .
Shaping the Universe II - the Solar System
Age 11 to 16
The second in a series of articles on visualising and modelling shapes in the history of astronomy.
Shaping the Universe I - Planet Earth
Age 11 to 16
This article explores ths history of theories about the shape of our planet. It is the first in a series of articles looking at the significance of geometric shapes in the history of astronomy.
Classic Cube
Age 16 to 18 Challenge Level:
The net of a cube is to be cut from a sheet of card 100 cm square. What is the maximum volume cube that can be made from a single piece of card?
Problem Solving, Using and Applying and Functional Mathematics
Age 5 to 18 Challenge Level:
Problem solving is at the heart of the NRICH site. All the problems give learners opportunities to learn, develop or use mathematical concepts and skills. Read here for more information.
Fermat's Poser
Age 14 to 16 Challenge Level:
Find the point whose sum of distances from the vertices (corners) of a given triangle is a minimum.
Spotting the Loophole
Age 14 to 16 Challenge Level:
A visualisation problem in which you search for vectors which sum to zero from a jumble of arrows. Will your eyes be quicker than algebra?
The Perforated Cube
Age 14 to 16 Challenge Level:
A cube is made from smaller cubes, 5 by 5 by 5, then some of those cubes are removed. Can you make the specified shapes, and what is the most and least number of cubes required ?
Five Circuits, Seven Spins
Age 16 to 18 Challenge Level:
A circular plate rolls inside a rectangular tray making five circuits and rotating about its centre seven times. Find the dimensions of the tray.
Contact
Age 14 to 16 Challenge Level:
A circular plate rolls in contact with the sides of a rectangular tray. How much of its circumference comes into contact with the sides of the tray when it rolls around one circuit?
When the Angles of a Triangle Don't Add up to 180 Degrees
Age 14 to 18
This article outlines the underlying axioms of spherical geometry giving a simple proof that the sum of the angles of a triangle on the surface of a unit sphere is equal to pi plus the area of the. . . .
Wrapping Gifts
Age 16 to 18 Challenge Level:
A box of size a cm by b cm by c cm is to be wrapped with a square piece of wrapping paper. Without cutting the paper what is the smallest square this can be?
Triangles Within Triangles
Age 14 to 16 Challenge Level:
Can you find a rule which connects consecutive triangular numbers?
Corridors
Age 14 to 16 Challenge 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.
Sliding Puzzle
Age 11 to 16 Challenge 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.
3D Treasure Hunt
Age 14 to 18 Challenge Level:
Some treasure has been hidden in a three-dimensional grid! Can you work out a strategy to find it as efficiently as possible?
Something in Common
Age 14 to 16 Challenge Level:
A square of area 3 square units cannot be drawn on a 2D grid so that each of its vertices have integer coordinates, but can it be drawn on a 3D grid? Investigate squares that can be drawn.
Cubic Net
Age 14 to 18 Challenge Level:
This is an interactive net of a Rubik's cube. Twists of the 3D cube become mixes of the squares on the 2D net. Have a play and see how many scrambles you can undo!
Square It
Age 11 to 16 Challenge 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.
Changing Places
Age 14 to 16 Challenge 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. . . .
Sliced
Age 14 to 16 Challenge Level:
An irregular tetrahedron has two opposite sides the same length a and the line joining their midpoints is perpendicular to these two edges and is of length b. What is the volume of the tetrahedron?
Inside Out
Age 14 to 16 Challenge 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. . . .
Wari
Age 14 to 16 Challenge 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?
Triangles Within Squares
Age 14 to 16 Challenge Level:
Can you find a rule which relates triangular numbers to square numbers?
Clocking Off
Age 7 to 16 Challenge Level:
I found these clocks in the Arts Centre at the University of Warwick intriguing - do they really need four clocks and what times would be ambiguous with only two or three of them?
Building Gnomons
Age 14 to 16 Challenge Level:
Build gnomons that are related to the Fibonacci sequence and try to explain why this is possible.
Speeding Boats
Age 14 to 16 Challenge Level:
Two boats travel up and down a lake. Can you picture where they will cross if you know how fast each boat is travelling?
Charting More Success
Age 11 to 16 Challenge Level:
Can you make sense of the charts and diagrams that are created and used by sports competitors, trainers and statisticians?
Steel Cables
Age 14 to 16 Challenge Level:
Some students have been working out the number of strands needed for different sizes of cable. Can you make sense of their solutions?
Charting Success
Age 11 to 16 Challenge Level:
Can you make sense of the charts and diagrams that are created and used by sports competitors, trainers and statisticians?
Triangles in the Middle
Age 11 to 18 Challenge Level:
This task depends on groups working collaboratively, discussing and reasoning to agree a final product.
Partly Painted Cube
Age 14 to 16 Challenge 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?
Mystic Rose
Age 14 to 16 Challenge Level:
Use the animation to help you work out how many lines are needed to draw mystic roses of different sizes.
Summing Squares
Age 14 to 16 Challenge Level:
Discover a way to sum square numbers by building cuboids from small cubes. Can you picture how the sequence will grow?
Sprouts
Age 7 to 18 Challenge Level:
A game for 2 people. Take turns joining two dots, until your opponent is unable to move.
Classical Means
Age 16 to 18 Challenge Level:
Use the diagram to investigate the classical Pythagorean means.
Ford Circles
Age 16 to 18 Challenge Level:
Can you find the link between these beautiful circle patterns and Farey Sequences?
Baravelle
Age 7 to 16 Challenge Level:
What can you see? What do you notice? What questions can you ask?
Cuboid Challenge
Age 11 to 16 Challenge Level:
What's the largest volume of box you can make from a square of paper?
Air Nets
Age 7 to 18 Challenge Level:
Can you visualise whether these nets fold up into 3D shapes? Watch the videos each time to see if you were correct.
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. . . .
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