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Visualising. Regular polygons and circles. Sport. Practical Activity. Working systematically. Investigations. Interactivities. Squares. 2D shapes and their properties. Triangles.There are 33 results
Broad Topics > Angles, Polygons, and Geometrical Proof > Regular polygons and circles
Circle Panes
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
Look at the mathematics that is all around us - this circular window is a wonderful example.
Where Are They?
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
Use the isometric grid paper to find the different polygons.
Hexagon Transformations
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
Can you cut a regular hexagon into two pieces to make a parallelogram? Try cutting it into three pieces to make a rhombus!
Part the Polygons
Age 7 to 11 Short Challenge Level:
Draw three straight lines to separate these shapes into four groups - each group must contain one of each shape.
Shaping Up
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
Are all the possible combinations of two shapes included in this set of 27 cards? How do you know?
Overlapping Again
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
What shape is the overlap when you slide one of these shapes half way across another? Can you picture it in your head? Use the interactivity to check your visualisation.
Olympic Rings
Age 5 to 7 Challenge Level:
This problem is intended to get children to look really hard at something they will see many times in the next few months.
What Shape and Colour?
Age 5 to 7 Challenge Level:
Can you fill in the empty boxes in the grid with the right shape and colour?
Shedding Some Light
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
Make an estimate of how many light fittings you can see. Was your estimate a good one? How can you decide?
Shapely Tiling
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
Use the interactivity to make this Islamic star and cross design. Can you produce a tessellation of regular octagons with two different types of triangle?
Circular Area
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
How could you find out the area of a circle? Take a look at these ways.
Triangular Hexagons
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
Investigate these hexagons drawn from different sized equilateral triangles.
Egyptian Rope
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
The ancient Egyptians were said to make right-angled triangles using a rope with twelve equal sections divided by knots. What other triangles could you make if you had a rope like this?
2 Rings
Age 5 to 7 Challenge Level:
The red ring is inside the blue ring in this picture. Can you rearrange the rings in different ways? Perhaps you can overlap them or put one outside another?
Bracelets
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
Investigate the different shaped bracelets you could make from 18 different spherical beads. How do they compare if you use 24 beads?
Overlapping Circles
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
What shaped overlaps can you make with two circles which are the same size? What shapes are 'left over'? What shapes can you make when the circles are different sizes?
Shaping It
Age 5 to 11 Challenge Level:
These pictures were made by starting with a square, finding the half-way point on each side and joining those points up. You could investigate your own starting shape.
Sports Equipment
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
If these balls are put on a line with each ball touching the one in front and the one behind, which arrangement makes the shortest line of balls?
Yin Yang
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
Can you reproduce the Yin Yang symbol using a pair of compasses?
Round and Round the Circle
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
What happens if you join every second point on this circle? How about every third point? Try with different steps and see if you can predict what will happen.
Sweets in a Box
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
How many different shaped boxes can you design for 36 sweets in one layer? Can you arrange the sweets so that no sweets of the same colour are next to each other in any direction?
Tessellation Interactivity
Age 7 to 16 Challenge Level:
An environment that enables you to investigate tessellations of regular polygons
LOGO Challenge 9 - Overlapping Polygons
Age 7 to 16 Challenge Level:
This LOGO challenge starts by looking at 10-sided polygons then generalises the findings to any polygon, putting particular emphasis on external angles
Shapes on the Playground
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
Sally and Ben were drawing shapes in chalk on the school playground. Can you work out what shapes each of them drew using the clues?
Like a Circle in a Spiral
Age 7 to 16 Challenge 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?
First Forward Into Logo 4: Circles
Age 7 to 16 Challenge Level:
Learn how to draw circles using Logo. Wait a minute! Are they really circles? If not what are they?
First Forward Into Logo 2: Polygons
Age 7 to 16 Challenge Level:
This is the second in a twelve part introduction to Logo for beginners. In this part you learn to draw polygons.
LOGO Challenge 1 - Star Square
Age 7 to 16 Challenge Level:
Can you use LOGO to create this star pattern made from squares. Only basic LOGO knowledge needed.
Pi, a Very Special Number
Age 7 to 14
Read all about the number pi and the mathematicians who have tried to find out its value as accurately as possible.
Circles, Circles Everywhere
Age 7 to 14
This article for pupils gives some examples of how circles have featured in people's lives for centuries.
Clock Hands
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
This investigation explores using different shapes as the hands of the clock. What things occur as the the hands move.
Flip Your Mat!
Age 7 to 14 Challenge Level:
What shape and size of drinks mat is best for flipping and catching?
NRICH is part of the family of activities in the Millennium Mathematics Project.